Oat is an annual gramineous forage grass with the remarkable ability to survive under various stressful environments. However, understanding effects of high altitude stresses on oats poor. Therefore, physiological and transcriptomic changes were analyzed at two sites different altitudes, low (ca. 2,080 m) or 2,918 m), respectively. Higher levels antioxidant enzyme activity, reactive oxygen majo...

UNLABELLED 6-Chloro-2-benzoxazolinone (CDHB) is a precursor of herbicide, insecticide, and fungicide synthesis and has a broad spectrum of biological activity. Pigmentiphaga sp. strain DL-8 can transform CDHB into 2-amino-5-chlorophenol (2A5CP), which it then utilizes as a carbon source for growth. The CDHB hydrolase (CbaA) was purified from strain DL-8, which can also hydrolyze 2-benzoxazolino...

The forage yield and quality of artificial grasslands typically decline rapidly over time after planting. Moreover, the reason for this grassland remains unclear. Here, we evaluated relationship between years since planting annual net primary productivity (ANPP), seed yield, reproductive allocation (ie., ratio to productivity) eight common gramineous species separately planted in monoculture Qi...

The tropical paper wasp, Ropalidia (Icariola) fasciata (F.), nests on leaves of gramineous plants (Miscanthus sinensis Andus. and sugarcane) in Okinawa, where there are frequent, strong typhoons. In Taiwan and Java, where the effects of typhoons are less severe, most nests are on tree twigs. A similar difference is seen in nests of Ropalidia (I) marginata (Lepeletier) in the Northern Mariana Is...

Blast disease, caused by hemibiotrophic fungus Pyricularia oryzae Sacc. (teleomorph: Magnaporthe oryzae (Hebert) Barr.), previously known as Magnaporthe grisea, is the most serious disease of rice and causes high yield losses in most rice growing regions every year. Blast is an endemic disease in all Iranian and Uruguayan rice fields, with yield losses up to 90 % that has been reported from som...

background & aim: the present study was to identify the medicinal plant species and introduced as one of the key priority areas for conservation and determination of endangered species were done. experimental: the method of plant collection in this region was classical method of regional plant taxonomic studies. collected plants were recognized and determined families, genera and species o...