Citation: Garrido M, Silva H, Franck N, Arenas J and Acevedo E (2018) Evaluation of Morpho-Physiological Traits Adjustment of Prosopis tamarugo Under Long-Term Groundwater Depletion in the Hyper-Arid Atacama Desert. Front. Plant Sci. 9:453. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00453 Evaluation of Morpho-Physiological Traits Adjustment of Prosopis tamarugo Under Long-Term Groundwater Depletion in the Hyper-Ar...

Invasive species cause ecological, economic and social impacts and are key drivers of global change. This is the case for the genus Prosopis (mesquite; Fabaceae) where several taxa are among the world's most damaging invasive species. Many contentious issues ('conflicts of interest') surround these taxa, and management interventions have not yet sustainably reduced the negative impacts. There i...

We coordinated biogeographical comparisons of the impacts of an exotic invasive tree in its native and non-native ranges with a congeneric comparison in the non-native range. Prosopis juliflora is taxonomically complicated and with P. pallida forms the P. juliflora complex. Thus we sampled P. juliflora in its native Venezuela, and also located two field sites in Peru, the native range of Prosop...

conclusions the results of the present study show a favorable inhibitory effect of artemisias spicigera essential oil on fungal growth, especially aspergillus species. according to the results, antifungal components of artemisias spicigera in different forms are used to prevent fungal pollution. materials and methods two types of media dichloran 18% glycerol (dg18) agar and dichloran rosebengal...

Maize storage and pest control method as practiced in traditional clay granaries in the Kédougou region in eastern Senegal were evaluated under rural conditions during two successive years. Three storage modes, i.e. maize cobs, winnowed and non-winnowed maize grains, were tested in seven granaries where the insecticidal plants Hyptis spicigera or H. suaveolens were either incorporated in the st...

Five apigenin-based C-gfycosylflavones were isolated from the leaves and pods of Prosopis chilensis and identified as vicenin-1, 6†-0-acetyrvicenin-l, vicenin-2, vitexin and isovitexin. 6*â€TM-0-ac«ryrvicenin-l could be a new acylated di-Cglycosylflavone and Vicerun-l is reported here for the first time in the genus Prosopis. The structures of the isolated compounds were established through ...

Three new species of Dactuliothrips Moulton are described, two from Mendoza, Argentina and one from Southern California, USA: D. prosopis sp.n. from Prosopis alpataco (Fabaceae), D. monttea sp.n. from Monttea aphylla (Scrophulariaceae), and D. ephedra sp.n. from Ephedra sp. (Ephedraceae). A revised diagnosis and an illustrated identification key to the nine recognized species of Dactuliothrips ...

bottomland by the now well-entrenched exotic sa1tcedar (Tamarix chinenses). First recorded in Arizona in the late 1800's, sa1tcedar was not an important species until after 1910 (Robinson 1965). Nevertheless, it is now present in pure communities or mixed with virtually all riparian community types, being absent only from a few stands of honey mesquite. Knowledge concerning those avian species ...

Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) DC. commonly known as mesquite, vilayti babul, vilaytikikar belongs to family leguminosae sub family (mimosoidae). P. juliflora is often quoted as native to the Caribbean where it is found often in coastal areas.It’s a thorny ever-green to semi-evergreen fast growing tree capable of growing in arid and semi-arid regions and attaining heights up to 10m. A polysaccharide ...