The ever increasing movement of viruses around the world poses a major threat to plants growing in cultivated and natural ecosystems. Both generalist and specialist viruses move via trade in plants and plant products. Their potential to damage cultivated plants is well understood, but little attention has been given to the threat such viruses pose to plant biodiversity. To address this, we stud...

Taleghan has a suitable ecological condition for growth of diverse plants. There are many species that are used in folk medicine by inhabitants for the treatment of infection diseases but there further information is required. For this study, approximately 200 species were collected and identified at the Herbarium, school of pharmacy, Tehran University of medical sciences (THE). Pre-Phytochemic...

Taleghan has a suitable ecological condition for growth of diverse plants. There are many species that are used in folk medicine by inhabitants for the treatment of infection diseases but there further information is required. For this study, approximately 200 species were collected and identified at the Herbarium, school of pharmacy, Tehran University of medical sciences (THE). Pre-Phytochemic...

Self-fertilization and admixture of genotypes from different populations can have major fitness consequences in native species. However, few studies have addressed their potential roles in invasive species. Here, we used plants of Mimulus guttatus from seven native North American, three invasive Scottish and four invasive New Zealand populations to address this. We created seeds from self-ferti...

Although many studies have documented the effects of global warming on invasive plants, little is known about whether the effects of warming on plant invasion differ depending on the imposed change in different diurnal temperature ranges (DTR). We tested the impact of warming with DTR change on seed germination and seedling growth of eight species in the family Asteraceae. Four of these are inv...