Celosia cristata is one of the floricultural commodities which also beneficial as a medicinal plant. Mutation techniques can effectively increase morphological diversity and biochemical content C. cristata. Chronically induced mutation using ethyl methane sulfonate (EMS) was first applied to properties. This study proposes modifying induction technique that allows plant material be exposed muta...

The QFASA model uses several sources of data, each of which requires careful consideration by the researcher (Iverson et al. 2004). We evaluated the sensitivity of QFASA diet estimates to the following model inputs: prey species included (prey library), fatty acid (FA) subsets, and calibration coefficients (CC). We did this by repeatedly estimating diets for all seals (harp seals Pagophilus gro...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to evaluate larvicidal activity of native marine algae against main malaria vector Anopheles stephensi. STUDY DESIGN The total 70% methanol (MeOH) extract and partition fractions of chloroform (CHCl3), ethylacetate (EtOAc), and MeOH from two algae, Sargassum swartzii and Chondria dasyphylla were investigated for larvicidal activities against late III...

T he U.S. pistachio industry, which is located almost exclusively in Califor-nia, has experienced phenomenal growth over the past thirty years. The value of U.S. production of pistachios grew from nearly zero in 1976 to $333 million by 2002. The U.S. share of the rapidly growing global pistachio industry has also increased. Outside California, the main pistachio growing region is the Middle Eas...

Mitochondrial genomes have been useful for inferring animal phylogeny across a wide range of clades, however they are still poorly sampled in some animal taxa, limiting our knowledge of mtDNA evolution. For example, despite being one of the most diverse animal phyla, only 5 complete annelid mitochrondial genomes have been published. To address this paucity of information, we obtained complete m...

Based on sequence data from ITS rDNA, cox1 and cox2, six Peronospora species are recognised as phylogenetically distinct on various Papaver species. The host ranges of the four already described species P. arborescens, P. argemones, P. cristata and P. meconopsidis are clarified. Based on sequence data and morphology, two new species, P. apula and P. somniferi, are described from Papaver apulum ...

The phylogenetic relationships of thirteen Diabrotica (representing virgifera and fucata species groups) and two outgroup Acalymma beetle species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) were inferred from the phylogenetic analysis of a combined data set of 1323 bp of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (COI) and the entire second internal transcribed spacer region (ITS-2) of nuclear ribo...