in this research, the bud and cane winter cold tolerance of 22 field-grown grapevine cultivars of kourdestan province agricultural and natural resources research and education center was evaluated at jan. and mar. stages in 2012. in these cultivars soluble carbohydrates and water content changes of buds and canes during dormant period also were measured. after exposure to different freezing tem...

Blueberry cultivars with varying percentages of species ancestry (V. corymbosum L., V. angustifolium Ait., V. ashei Reade, V. darrowi Camp) were assayed in mid-February to determine initial bud hardiness, and rates of deacclimation under constant temperature conditions. The LT50 (the temperature at which 50% lethality occurs) of detached shoots of field-grown plants of ‘Weymouth’, ‘Bluecrop’, ‘...

screening of native cultivars and understanding of the mechanisms involved in cold hardiness in grapevines is needed to match cultivars appropriately with growing sites and aid in breeding and selecting cultivars with improved freezing tolerance. in this study cold hardiness of fifteen grapevine (vitis vinifera l.) cultivars were evaluated using tetrazolium stain test and post freezing budbreak...

beauveria bassiana (balsamo) vuillemin is an important natural regulator of insect populations. identification of a suitable molecular marker for detecting a virulent phenotype on a target pest would be useful in screening for effective isolates against the pest. nine isolates of b. bassiana were tested for their virulence to adults of tribolium castaneum (herbst) in laboratory bioassay with 1×...

1 Entomological Research Institute, Ayub Agricultural Research Institute, Faisalabad, Pakistan 2 University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan ABSTRACT. A study was conducted at the Eco-toxicology laboratory in the Department of Agricultural Entomology, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, against three species Apis florea, A. dorsata and A. mellifera of honey bees, to check long-term surviv...

Thermal physiology of entomopathogenic nematodes (EPN) is a critical aspect of field performance and fitness. Thermal limits for survival and activity, and the ability of these limits to adjust (i.e., show phenotypic flexibility) depending on recent thermal history, are generally poorly established, especially for non-model nematode species. Here we report the acute thermal limits for survival,...

Bioassays were carried out in the laboratory to determine the virulence of two Beauveria bassiana indigenous isolates on the greater wax moth Galleria mellonella. LC50 and LT50 values were taken as indices for the efficacy of fungal isolates, designated as Bb1 and Bb2, collected from Ismailia governorate in Egypt and isolated from soil and trap larvae of G. mellonella, respectively. The larvae ...

BACKGROUND The role of enterococci in the pathogenesis of polymicrobial infections is still debated. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of virulent enterococci in the presence or absence of Escherichia coli strains in the in vivo Caenorhabditis elegans model. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS This study demonstrated that there was a synergistic effect on virulence when an association of en...

We conducted this study to investigate the efficacy of herbal essential oils from 12 species of Zingiberaceae plants to determine their larvicidal and pupicidal activity against fourth instar larvae and pupae of Aedes aegypti and Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes. Probit analysis was used to analyze the data. Larval mortality was recorded at 1, 5, 10, 15, 30 and 60 minutes and 24 hours. Pupal m...