THE OLDEST known Hebrew medical writing is that of Asaph which dates from the seventh century.' Since the ancient Hebrews left us no specific medical texts, our only sources of knowledge on this subject are the medical and hygienic references found in the Jewish sacred, historical, and legal literatures.2 It is from these that the fragments of our knowledge of their medical views and practices ...

Copyright © 2014 The Korean Society of Phycology 279 http://e-algae.kr pISSN: 1226-2617 eISSN: 2093-0860 What’s in a name? Monophyly of genera in the red algae: Rhodophyllis parasitica sp. nov. (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta); a new red algal parasite from New Zealand Maren Preuss* and Giuseppe C. Zuccarello School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, P. O. Box 600, Wellington ...

Leaf blotch is a globally important disease of barley crops and other grasses that is caused by at least five host-specialised species in the fungal genus Rhynchosporium. The pathogen R. commune (specialised to barley, brome-grass and Italian ryegrass) has long been considered to reproduce only by asexual means, but there has been accumulating evidence for recombination and gene flow from popul...