although wild safflower (c.oxyacantha, 2n=24) has not been studied to a very large extent, yet it is believed that it can be used as an important source of biotic and abiotic stress resistance genes for improvement of cultivated safflower (c.tinctorius l., 2n=2x=24). in this study, the crossability between these two (cultivated and wild safflower) species was evaluated as based upon morphology ...

The installation of flower strips in simplified agricultural landscapes has been promoted as a tool to improve pollination services. While the effectiveness increasing pollinator visitation and yield is well-established, social economic feasibility this measure remains unclear. Here, we evaluated efficiency installing promote under different scenarios subsidy. A 2-year experiment was implemente...

russian knapweed (acroptilon repens l.) is a perennial weed of aceraceae that is becoming a dominant weed in suitable conditions. in order to find an ecological non-chemical approach for controlling russian knapweed and studying the possibility of using flower-eater mite (aceria acroptiloni shevchenko & kacalev) (acari: eriophyidae), a series of studies including field survey and field experime...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Flower colour varies within and among populations of the Rocky Mountain columbine, Aquilegia coerulea, in conjunction with the abundance of its two major pollinators, hawkmoths and bumble-bees. This study seeks to understand whether the choice of flower colour by these major pollinators can help explain the variation in flower colour observed in A. coerulea populations. ME...