Fuller's rose weevil, Naupactus cervinus (Boheman) (Curculionidae: Entiminae), is an important quarantine pest of New Zealand kiwifruit exported to Asian markets. Both adults and larvae are considered to be polyphagous. In this study, the survival of larval N. cervinus was estimated on common groundcover species of kiwifruit (Actinidia spp.) in the Bay of Plenty, the main region in New Zealand ...

Proanthocyanidins (PAs) are oligomeric flavonoids and one group of end products of the phenylpropanoid pathway. PAs have been reported to be beneficial for human and animal health and are particularly important in pastoral agricultural systems for improved animal production and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. However, the main forage legumes grown in these systems, such as Trifolium repens an...

in a greenhouse experiment, the effects of glomus intraradices and indigenous mycorrhizal isolates from soils under plow and no-till treatments on the uptake of 32p placed at 1, 2.5 and 4 cm from the roots of white clover (trifolium repens) in 23, 37 or 46 days after planting were compared.spores of the indigenous fungi were mostly a mixture of glomus mossea, g. clarum, g. caledonium and g....

HE selfand cross-incompatibilities of a number of obligately cross-polliT nated species of flowering plants are genetically determined by series of multiple oppositional alleles. The oppositional or personate incompatibility system was first described, with substantiating data, by EAST and MANGELSDORF (1925) for Nicotiana species. The existence of oppositional alleles has been subsequently demo...

Dehydrins (group 2 LEA proteins) tend to accumulate late in embryogenesis and in response to stress leading to cell dehydration (e.g., drought, low temperature, and salinity). The expression pattern of group 2 LEA genes is frequently associated with higher tolerance of crop plants to abiotic stresses such as cold and drought. All dehydrins have at least one conserved, lysine-rich 15-amino acid ...

In 12 experiments in which white (Trifolium repens), red (Trifolium pratense) or Persian (Trifolium resupinatum) clovers, either with or without maize (Zea mays) silage, were fed to lactating dairy cows in northern Victoria, maize silage was shown to significantly (P < 0.01) reduce the incidence of bloat; 126 cases of bloat were recorded where the clovers were fed alone and only 3 cases were ob...

The recently described complex nature of some dehydrin-coding sequences in Trifolium repens could explain the considerable variability among transcripts originating from a single gene.1 For some of the sequences the existence of natural antisense transcripts (NAT s), which could form sense-antisense (SAS) pairs, was predicted. The present study demonstrates that cis-natural antisense transcript...