The following 17 new species are described: Manota anfracta (Ecuador), M. appendiculata (Ecuador, French Guyana), M. aristata (Ecuador), M. bisulca (Ecuador), M. depilis (Ecuador), M. inermis (Ecuador), M. iota (Ecuador, French Guyana), M. micula (Ecuador), M. panda (Argentina), M. papillosa (Ecuador), M patula (French Guyana), M. paula (Ecuador), M. pisinna (French Guyana), M. quantilla (Ecuad...

Previously funded National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Species of Concern (SOC) work on Montipora dilatata resolved four distinct genetic groups of Montipora in Hawaii: I) M. patula/M. verilli, II) M. incrassata, III) M. capitata, and IV) M. dilatata/M. turgescens/M. flabellata, with mitochondrial and nuclear markers capable of resolving ~ 1 MY differences (Forsman et al. 2009). Further wor...

This experiment aims at establishing the ability of the endomycorrhizal fungus Glomus intraradices to suppress the plant pathogen Pythium ultimum in cherry tomato. A study published in Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology in 1994 showed that Glomus intraradices suppresses Pythium ultimum in Tagetes patula (french marigold) (St-Arnaud, Fortin, Caron, & Hamel, 1994). Pythium ultimum and other Pyth...

Lutein is a health promoting xanthophyll that may be extracted from marigold flowers. But the plant is known also for biosynthesis of phototoxic polythiophenes. Extracts of flowers of some Tagetes species grown in Belgorod (RF) T. erecta L. (cv. Gavaii) , T. patula L. (cv. Petit orange), T. tenuifolia Cav. (unknown cv.), and T. lucida Cav. were investigated by thin layer chromatography (TLC) an...

Efforts have been made to assess some plant extracts namely, Lycopersicon esculentum, Tagetus patula, Achras sapota, Azadirachta indica, Datura metel, Cymbopogon citrates, Polyalthia longifolia, Allium sativum and Allium cepa in vitro for the management of leaf spot (tikka) disease of groundnut cultivar Dhaka-1 caused by Cercospora arachidicola and Cercosporidium personatum. Results indicated t...

Successful afforestation has been practiced in South Africa for more than a century. Recently, however, problems with afforestation of pines have occurred in the northeastern part of the Eastern Cape Province. Rapid mortality of Pinus patula and P. elliottii have occurred when small container seedlings were planted on old-agricultural soils. Death would often occur within 5 months of planting. ...