In a complex soil environment, competitive and environmental factors interact with individual traits to influence plant’s root growth patterns ability compete for resources. Here, we examine how of focal plant, Plantago lanceolata L., responds resource heterogeneity presence two neighbor species, Centaurea jacea L.and Poa pratensis L. A full factorial experiment tested the effects nutrient hete...

In this contribution, new chromosome data obtained on material collected in Italy are presented. It includes counts for Centaurea aegusae , Hieracium racemosum subsp. lucanum, H. australe australe, Lysimachia arvensis arvensis, Micromeria graeca graeca, and M. consentina.

Building natural classifications for genera with complex morphological variations such as Centaurea needs the support of molecular analysis and knowledge character diversification. Here we use parsimony Bayesian analyses nuclear ribosomal ITS sequences to gain insight into sectional relationships evolution in sections Chartolepis, Cheirolepis, Cynaroides, Grosheimia, Microlophus, Paraphysis, Ph...

Hexane, chloroform, ethyl acetate and ethanolic extracts of the aerial parts of Centaurea austro-anatolica Hub.-Mor. (Asteraceae) were evaluated against microorganisms, including multiresistant bacteria, using a paper disc diffusion method. The chloroform extract exhibited significant antibacterial activity toward all bacteria tested. The chemical composition of the chloroform extract was deter...