Sprouts and stumps of American chestnut, Castanea dentata [Marsh.] Borkh., were mapped from data collected at three forested sites of varying size and historical background in Cuyahoga County of northeast Ohio to compare the species' present distribution with that of its historical distribution in the mentioned areas. Sprouts were absent from one site despite a dense population of remnant chest...

ABSTRACT Sustainable biological control of the chestnut blight fungus Crypho-nectria parasitica with hypovirulence depends on the production and dissemination of hypovirus-infected propagules of the pathogen. We investigated the ability of C. parasitica to sporulate and produce hypo-virus-infected spores on recently dead chestnut wood in coppice stands in southern Switzerland where hypovirulenc...

Evidence for the role of chitinases in biocontrol by Trichoderma species has been well documented.Chit42 lacks a chitin–binding domain (ChBD) which is involved in its binding activity to insoluble chitin. The objective of the present study was to enhance antifungal activity of T. harzianum by overexpression of wild type and hybrid forms of Chit42 containing chitin binding domain. To produce chi...

Putatively blight-resistant advanced backcross chestnut seedlings will soon be available for outplanting on a regional scale. Few studies have examined the importance of silvicultural treatment or seedling quality to chestnut reintroduction in the U.S. This paper examines results from a silvicultural study of high-quality chestnut seedlings on the Cumberland Plateau of southeastern Kentucky. Th...

Sprouts and stumps of American chestnut, Castanea dentata [Marsh.] Borkh., were mapped from data collected at three forested sites of varying size and historical background in Cuyahoga County of northeast Ohio to compare the species' present distribution with that of its historical distribution in the mentioned areas. Sprouts were absent from one site despite a dense population of remnant chest...

BACKGROUND The geographical incidence of IBD varies considerably. This study aimed to survey the epidemiologic features of IBD in Guilan province, North of Iran, during ten years duration. METHODS In this retrospective cross-sectional study, we assessed the documents of 868 patients with IBD referred to private and governmental clinics of Guilan province between 2002 and 2012. Variables such as...

due to the epidemiological alteration in distribution of candida species as well as significant increasing trend of either intrinsic or acquired in resistance of some of these fungi, the precise identification of candida species is necessary for effective antifungal therapy and also for prevention of nosocomial infections. pcr-rflp method is indicated to be a reliable, rapid and simple techniqu...