A modern classification of pastures in Karakalpak Ustyurt has been developed, which combines 7 pasture types (Anabasis salsa, Salsola arbusculiformis-Anabasis Artemisia terrae-albae-Anabasis Haloxylon ammodendron, Tamarix hispida-T. elongata, Kalidium caspicum, Halocnemum strobilaceum), 2 classes (pastures stratal plains on gray-brown soils and drainless depressions solonchaks) 42 varieties, a ...

Intertidal macroalgae are regularly exposed to hypo- or hypersaline conditions which stressful. However, red algae in New Zealand generally poorly studied terms of salinity tolerance. Consequently, two native (Bostrychia arbuscula W. H. Harvey [Ceramiales], Champia novae-zelandiae [J. D. Hooker & Harvey] [Rhodymeniales]) and one introduced algal taxon (Schizymenia spp. J. Agardh [Nemastomatales...

Taproot decline (TRD) is a disease of soybean that has been reported recently from the southern United States (U.S.). Symptoms TRD include foliar interveinal chlorosis followed by necrosis. Darkened, charcoal-colored areas thin stromatic tissue are evident on taproot and lateral roots along with necrosis within root white mycelia pith. Upright stromata typical Xylaria can be observed crop debri...

Reported researches dealing with either composition or bioactivity of Salsola imbricata are limited. This study was conducted aiming to investigate the phenolic composition of the plant and evaluate its efficacy as male contraceptive. Polyphenols, namely, phenolic acids and flavonoids, were qualitatively and quantitatively analysed by RP-HPLC in the hydrolysed methanol extract using two differe...

The growth inhibition of 12 native marine bacteria isolated from Aplysina sponge surfaces, the shell of a bivalve, and Phytagel immersed for 48 h in sea water were used as indicator of the antifouling activity of the extracts of 39 marine organisms (octocorals, sponges, algae, and zoanthid) collected in the Colombian Caribbean Sea and on the Brazilian coast (Santa Catarina). Gram-negative bacte...

Objective To study the cultural differences in moral disengagement, which lends support to attitudes used to justify violence. Methods We carried out classroom surveys of a total of 3122 students in the USA (Houston, TX, and Washington, DC) and in four European countries — Estonia (Tartu), Finland (Helsinki), Romania (Satu Mare) and the Russian Federation (St Petersburg). Data were also taken f...

Jiandong Wang,1 Zhuoyi Ye,2 Alexandra Miller,3 Yi Hu,2,3 Cibo Lou,2 Peng Zhang,3 Zhigang Chen,2,3 and Jianke Yang4,* 1College of Physical Electronics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China 2TEDA Applied Physical School, Nankai University, Tianjin 300457, China 3Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, Californi...