The Cacao Frosty Pod Rot (Moniliophthora roreri (Cif. & Par.) Evans et al)1 is a disease with the greatest impact on cacao crop yields in Central and South America. It was recently detected state of Acre, Brazil. Although its control has been proven various ways, cultural checked to be most effective economical. proposed model based recognition critical states fruits as sources infection, c...

The Cool Water condition is a climatic configuration that combines periodically frosty winters with mildly warm summers under the ubiquitous accessibility of fresh water. Historically, it embodied opportunity endowments weakened fertility pressures, resulting in household formation patterns empowered women and reduced gender inequality. Reviewing literature on deep historic roots inequality, th...

Trichoderma theobromicola and T. paucisporum spp. nov. are described. Trichoderma theobromicola was isolated as an endophyte from the trunk of a healthy cacao tree (Theobroma cacao, Malvaceae) in Amazonian Peru; it sporulates profusely on common mycological media. Trichoderma paucisporum is represented by two cultures that were obtained in Ecuador from cacao pods partially infected with frosty ...

The premature infant is born with the skin and the skeleton and the organs of a seven-month fetus. He is called upon to play the part of a newborn infant with the personalia of a fetus. He is admirably fitted to continue living in the uterus, but is ill provided to meet the exigencies of an extrauterine existence. He is suddenly forced into surroundings of a kind which impose upon him urgent ca...