Niche-based models calibrated in the native range by relating species observations to climatic variables are commonly used to predict the potential spatial extent of species' invasion. This climate matching approach relies on the assumption that invasive species conserve their climatic niche in the invaded ranges. We test this assumption by analysing the climatic niche spaces of Spotted Knapwee...

Climate change is accelerating the spread of plants and their associated species to new ranges. The differences in range shift capacity of the various types of species may disrupt long-term co-evolved relationships especially those belowground, however, this may be less so for seed-borne endophytic microbes. We collected seeds and soil of the range-expanding Centaurea stoebe and the congeneric ...

The main objectives of the current study were to investigate effect arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and nano-iron chelate fertilizer under water deficit conditions on grain yield, root colonization, leaf chlorophyll concentration, oil percentage, fatty acid profile Lallemantia species. experiment was carried out as a factorial based complete randomized block design consisting three factors i...

In this study there are demonstrated for the first time in albanian literature palynomorphologic characteristics of two types plants (Centaurea epirota and Viola epirota), collected Zagoria valley, Gjirokastra region, Albania. To carry out study, light microscopy was used it concluded that pollen grains Centaurea were 3 colporate, isopolar, with radial symmetry. polar view, have a circular tria...

BACKGROUND Exploring the residence time of allelochemicals released by plants into different soils, episodic exposure of plants to allelochemicals, and the effects of allelochemicals in the field has the potential to improve our understanding of interactions among plants. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We conducted experiments in India and the USA to understand the dynamics of soil concentrat...

Este trabajo ha sido financiado a traves de los proyectos investigacion HAR2016-76586-P: Espacios sociales y espacios frontera durante el Calcolitico la Edad del Bronce en Levante peninsula iberica, Ministerio Economia Competitividad FEDER, El poblado calcolitico Vilches: caracterizacion radiocarbonica, ambiental arqueometrica, Junta Comunidades Castilla-La Mancha Universidad Alicante.

Yellow starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis L.) (YST) is an important invasive plant that infests millions of hectares in the western USA and Canada. Isolates of the exotic rust fungus Puccinia jaceae have been evaluated as a potential biological control for YST. The objectives of this study were to characterize isolates of P. jaceae by amplified fragment length polymorphic (AFLP) DNA analysis a...