Meloidogyne enterolobii Yang & Eisenback, 1983 is amongst the most aggressive root-knot nematodes, causing significant annual losses worldwide to many crops and emerging in countries recently. Although plants belonging citrus family such as grapefruit have been reported non-hosts or poor hosts for M. enterolobii, our study recorded heavy infection of a nematode that resembles on pomelo, spe...

Introduction: Hydatid Disease (HD), a helminth infection with various clinical complications is a serious economic and public health concern around the world. Nowadays, different agents have been broadly applied as scolicids; these agents have several side effects on patients. Therefore, the aims of this experimental study were to evaluate the scolicidal activity of Cucurbita maxima seeds metha...

The above background information indicates that -citrus, as the most important tree fruit crop, amply justifies international training programs such as this short course on irrigation. Your Florida hosts are to be commended on their vision and desire to serve citrus growers everywhere in arranging these sessions-especially considering that citrus in Florida was largely unirrigated until recentl...

Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy has the ability to quickly identify the presence of specific carbohydrates in plant materials. The presence of the disease huanglongbing (HLB) in the leaves of infected citrus plants has a distinctive spectrum that can be used to distinguish an infected plant from a healthy plant. However, many citrus diseases display similar visible symptoms and a...