This paper presents new records and noteworthy data on the following taxa in SE Europe adjacent regions: stonewort Chara intermedia, liverworts Fossombronia wondraczekii Pseudomoerckia blyttii, mosses Hamatocaulis vernicosus Hookeria lucens, monocots Gladiolus palustris, Neotinea tridentata, Orchis militaris dicots Cardamine serbica, waldsteinii, Hieracium kotschyanum Pilosella petraea are give...

Three new megastigmane glucopyranosides, komaroveside A [(3S,4R,5Z,7E)-3,4-dihydroxy-5,7-megastigmadien-9-one-3-O-β-D-glucopyranoside] (1), komaroveside B [(3S,4S,5S,6R,7E)-5,6-epoxy-3,4-dihydroxy-7-megastigmen-9-one-3-O-β-D-glucopyranoside] (2) and komaroveside C [(3S,4S,5S,6R,7E,9S)-5,6-epoxy-3,4,9-trihydroxy-7-megastigmen-3-O-β-D-glucopyranoside] (3) were isolated, together with eight known ...

We examined the vocal and non-vocal responses of male cricket frogs (Acris crepitans) to conspecific advertisement calls that had been attenuated or degraded by reducing the depth of amplitude modulation (AM). Both are characteristic of changes to the call as it is transmitted through natural habitats. As stimulus calls became more intense or less degraded, male cricket frogs gradually decrease...

1. The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) exerts considerable control on U.K. weather. This study investigates the impact of the NAO on butterfly abundance and phenology using 34 years of data from the U.K. Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS).2. The study uses a multi-species indicator to show that the NAO does not affect overall U.K. butterfly population size. However, the abundance of bivoltine...

Certain tiger moths emit high-frequency clicks to an attacking bat, causing it to break off its pursuit. The sounds may either orient the bat by providing it with information that it uses to make an attack decision (aposematism) or they may disorient the bat by interrupting the normal flow of echo information required to complete a successful capture (startle, jamming). At what point during a b...

A novel selenium- (Se-) hyperaccumulating plant, Cardamine hupingshanesis, accumulating Se as a form of SeCys2, was discovered in Enshi, Hubei, China, which could not be explained by present selenocysteine methyltransferase (SMT) theory. However, it is interesting to investigate if rhizosphere bacteria play some roles during SeCys2 accumulation. Here, one Se-tolerant rhizosphere strain, Microba...

Given that plants are sessile organisms, traits involved in adapting to local environments and/or in monitoring the surrounding environment, such as having photoreceptors, are significant targets of natural selection in plant evolution. To assess the intraspecific adaptive evolution of photoreceptors, we investigated sequence variations in four phytochrome genes (PHYA-C and PHYE) of Cardamine n...

Unspecified DOI: 10.1038/NPLANTS.2016.167 Posted at the Zurich Open Repository and Archive, University of Zurich ZORA URL: http://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-127185 Published Version Originally published at: Gan, Xiangchao; Hay, Angela; et al; Briskine, Roman V; Shimizu, Kentaro K; Shimizu-Inatsugi, Rie (2016). The Cardamine hirsuta genome offers insight into the evolution of morphological diversity. N...

The main aim of the study was to evaluate the various minerall and heavy metals parameters of seaweeds present in the south coastal line. The five red seaweeds namely Acanthophora deliei, Scinaia furcellata, Porphyra tenera, Gracilaria verucosa and Hypnea species were collected from the Pamban, South east coast India. These samples were analyzed for its mineral contents such as sodium, potassiu...