The aim of this study was to evaluate the occurrence of peony ring spot disease in the collections of foreign and Lithuanian origin peony cultivars and hybrids and to identify a causal agent of this viral disease. During surveys of ornamental plant collections grown in Lithuania, solitary instances of affected by peony ring spot disease plants have been detected in all collections surveyed. Dis...

The increasing demand for healthy edible oil has generated the need to identify promising oil crops. Tree peony (Paeonia section Moutan DC.) is a woody oil crop with α-linolenic acid (ALA) contributing for 45% of the total fatty acid (FA) content in seeds. Molecular and genetic differences that contribute to varied FA content and composition among the wild peony species are, however, poorly und...

INCE 1916, the senior author has carried on an extensive series of S crossing experiments in the genus Paeonia, with the object both of obtaining new horticultural forms and of securing evidence concerning the interrelationships of the species and the processes of evolution within the genus. Some accounts of the hybrids have already been published (SAUNDERS 1928, 1933a, 193313). The junior auth...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The phenotypic selection of a diverse insect assemblage was studied on a generalist plant species (Paeonia broteroi) in ten flowering seasons, with tests for whether visitor preferences for plants with larger flowers eventually translated into significant differences among plants in visitation rates, seed production, seed mass, seed germination and seedling survival. METHO...

H E cytological study of the numerous species and hybrids in the T SAUNDERS collection has now been carried on intermittently for five years, during which time a considerable amount of data have been accumulated. The present paper aims to present the most significant findings in the diploid species and hybrids, particularly insofar as they help to explain species relationships in this most comp...

A nearly complete skull of a new ctenochasmatid pterosaur, Pterofiltus qiui gen. et sp. nov., from the Lower Cretaceous deposits of Liaoning, China, is described here. The specimen (IVPP V12339), was collected from the shale of the lower Yixian Formation (125 Ma) at the Zhangjiagou locality. It has the following combination of characters: about 112 teeth in total (including the upper and lower ...