Macrophomina phaseolina (Tassi) Goid is a destructive pathogen of cowpea that causes serious charcoal rot disease with significant yield losses. Antifungal activity of three indigenous Ascomycetes viz., Trichoderma harzianum, T. viride, and T. hamatum, and two Meliaceae members, i.e., Melia azedarach L. and Azadirachta indica L. were assessed against the pathogen. Laboratory screening trials wi...

The phytochemical investigation of the dichloromethane-soluble part of the methanol extract obtained from the fruits of Melia azedarach afforded one new tirucallane-type triterpene, 3-alpha-tigloylmelianol and three known tirucallanes, melianone, 21-beta-acetoxy-melianone, and methyl kulonate. The structure of the isolated compounds was mainly determined by 1D and 2D NMR experiments as well as ...

background & aim: tetranychus urticae koch is one of the most important pests of crops, ornamental and greenhouse plants in the world and, can damage to 900 plant species. resistances to pesticides and acaricides have guided researches to introduce new methods to control t. urticae. botanical pesticides are an important group of natural productions that are usually safer than conventional p...

The BRST cohomology analysis of Lian and Zuckerman leads to physical states at all ghost number for c < 1 matter coupled to Liouville gravity. We show how these states are related to states at ghost numbers zero(pure vertex operator states – DK states) and ghost number one(ring elements) by means of descent equations. These descent equations follow from the double cohomology of the String BRST ...

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Since 1995 the school education sector has been a dominant focus for education for sustainabi li ty (EfS) in Austra lia (Tilbury, Coleman, & Garlick, 2005, p. 1). The commencement of the Austra lian Susta inable Schools In it iative (AuSSI) in 2003, with its whole school approach, dramatically increased this focus (Department of Education and Training, 2005b). The pilot for the Western Australi...