The potential importance of botanical controls on the properties and behaviour blanket peat involved in landslides was identified almost twenty years ago. During 2010–2012, investigations at three bogflows north-west Ireland were done with aim establishing some form relationship between or palaeoecological characteristics standard physical geotechnical properties, assuming latter to be meaningf...

The multiple benefits agriculture provides to society depend on the long-term sustainable management of water resources, including preservation a good ecological and chemical status bodies. Presently, this has not been reached in majority European river basins. Implemented monitoring strategies are targeted identify presence magnitude impacts that come from mixtures chemicals but fail give info...

Ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) var. Bentong is a monocotyledon plant that belongs to the Zingiberaceae family. ginger most popular cultivar of in Malaysia, which conventionally propagated by its rhizome. As rhizomes are economic part plant, allocation large amount as planting materials increases agricultural input cost. Simultaneously, rhizomes’ availability restricted due high demand for ...

Aim We expand on community phylogenetic approaches to Darwin's Naturalization Conundrum by considering scale, comprised of grain and extent. assess relatedness between invasive, non-native native plant species at multiple depths in the phylogeny (i.e. grain) across clades extents) regional local spatial scales highly fragmented, critically imperilled pine rockland ecosystem. Location Miami-Dade...

Background: Pakistan has a unique biodiversity of monocotyledon flora and due to its climatic condition huge number medicinal plants are distributed in the area. Ethnobotany plays crucial role understanding dynamic relationships between biological diversity social cultural systems. However, studies about ethnomedicinal significance monocot taxa very limited. Methods: This study documented indig...

In Phalaris coerulescens, gametophytic self-incompatibility is controlled by two unlinked genes: S and Z. A probable S gene has now been isolated and sequenced. This represents a novel self-incompatibility gene isolated from pollen in the multilocus system of a monocotyledonous plant. The gene is approximately 3 kb long, split by five introns, and exclusively expressed in the mature pollen. The...

INTERACTIONS OF BIOTA WITH GOLD – AN INTRODUCTION Gold is widely distributed in the biosphere. Various organisms have displayed the ability to accumulate gold (Korobushkina et al. 1983). Sea urchins, sea stars and crabs have been shown to accumulate gold (Korobushkina et al. 1983). Some land plants have been shown to accumulate gold, such as the thiocyanate containing carrot family (Umbellifera...

It has now believed that chloroplasts arose from cyanobacteria, however, during endosymbiosis, the photosynthetic genes in chloroplasts have been reduced. How these changes occurred during plant evolution was the focus of the present study. Beginning with photosystem I (PSI) genes, a homologous comparison of amino acid sequences of 18 subunits of PSI from 10 species of cyanobacteria, chloroplas...