Flower morphology of 10 Fritillaria species of subgenera Theresia and Fritillaria growing wild in Iran is studied using seventy morphological characters. Qualitative and quantitative datasets separated taxa into subgenera, sectional and groups. Three enigmatic species F. caucasica, F. zagrica (endemic to Zagros Mountains) and F. pinardii (recently reported from Zagros Mountains) appeared as clo...

antibacterial, antifungal and antioxidant activities of methanolic crude extracts from aerial parts of four arnebia species namely arnebia fimbriopetala, arnebia linearifolia, arnebia garandiflora, arnebia tubata were screened. total phenolic contents were determined by folin-ciocalteu procedure and ranged from 2.2 ± 0.13 (a. fimbriopetala) to 1.6 ± 1.0 mg (arnebia tubata) gallic acid µmol equi...

Bacteria often infect their hosts from environmental sources, but little is known about how environmental and host-infecting populations are related. Here, phylogenetic clustering and diversity were investigated in a natural community of rhizobial bacteria from the genus Bradyrhizobium. These bacteria live in the soil and also form beneficial root nodule symbioses with legumes, including those ...

Peanut, Arachis hypogaea L., is a protein-rich species consumed worldwide. A key improvement to peanut culture involves the development of cultivars that resist fungal diseases such as rust, leaf spot and scab. Over three years, we evaluated fungal resistance under field conditions of 43 wild accessions and three interspecific hybrids of the genus Arachis, as well as six A. hypogaea genotypes. ...

to assess the genetic relationships between 72 cultivated and 65 wild grapevines in west azerbaijan and in kurdistan, 19 ssr markers were employed. microsatellitic primer pairs amplified, a total of 163 alleles with an average of 8.6 alleles/locus (for cultivars) and 153 alleles with an average of 8.05 alleles/locus (for wild samples). the expected heterozigosity varied from 0.7 in cultivars to...

The genus Brachiaria contains species that have great economic importance in the Brazilian agricultural sector, as they enable cattle ranching on acid and poor soils with species that are resistant to spittlebugs and form crop-livestock-forest integration systems. The genus mainly consists of tetraploid (2n = 4x = 36) and apomictic species such as B. decumbens and B. brizantha. Sexuality is fou...

Recently, a novel species of the genus Borreliawas identified in Bothriocroton concolor and Ixodes holocyclus ticks from echidnas. Analyses of 16S rRNA and flaB genes identified three closely related genotypes of this bacterium (Borrelia sp. Aus A-C) that were unique and distinct from previously described borreliae. Phylogenetic analyses of flaB (763 bp), groEL (1537 bp), gyrB (1702 bp) and glp...