Arecaceae Schultz-Sch. (Palmae Juss.), a member of the monocotyledon group, is considered one of the oldest extant angiosperm families on Earth. This family is highly valuable because of its species diversity, its occurrence in a wide range of habitats, and its status as an integral part of the culture and the family-based economy of many traditional and nontraditional communities. The main obj...

Stomatal control of water loss was studied in a low pressure environment by using detached leaves of Crassula argentea Thunb., Peperomia obtusifolia (L.) A. Dietr., and Setcreasea pallida Rose cv. ;Purple Heart.' The transient behavior of temperature and rate of mass loss were determined. A model based on free molecule gas flow was developed and used to predict mass loss to within the same orde...

Leo L. Chan a,∗, Saujanya L. Gosangari b,c, Kenneth L. Watkin b,c, Brian T. Cunningham a a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States b Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Bio-imaging Science and Technology Group, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States c Department of Speech and Hearing Scien...

In 2010, symptoms of leaf and stem rot were observed on potted plants (Peperomia quadrangularis) in a greenhouse in Yongin, Korea. The causative pathogen was identified as Myrothecium roridum based on morphological data, internal transcribed spacer sequence analysis, and pathogenicity test. To our knowledge, this is the first report of M. roridum causing leaf and stem rot disease on P. quadrang...

the ability of trees to trap dusts convinces their use for preventing the transport of dust over longer distances. this ability is increasingly important in threatened areas with dust invasion. the purpose of this study was to compare the size and distribution of particles deposited on the leaves surface of fraxinus rotundifolia, platanus orientalis, and robinia pseudoacacia trees, in paveh, we...