Pasture dieback is a syndrome of unknown cause affecting grasses in Australia, creating significant economic losses to farmers by reducing available livestock feed and paddock carrying capacity. RC3 commercial plant growth stimulant tri-sodium salt trimercapto-S-triazine (TMT) potassium humate as active ingredients. TMT commonly used for soil wastewater remediation capturing binding heavy metal...

Abstract European ash dieback caused by the alien, invasive ascomycete species Hymenoscyphus fraxineus currently represents, along with its side effects, greatest threat to common ( Fraxinus excelsior ) trees in Europe. The disease is widely distributed Germany and present all regions where growing. In order study develop management strategies conserve as a forest tree species, concerted, inter...

A large collection of Botryosphaeriaceae isolates obtained from fruit and forest trees with fruit rot, canker and dieback disease symptoms in northern provinces of the country were examined in this study. Based on morphology and sequence data (ITS and EF1-α), two species, Diplodia mutila and Spencermartinsia viticola are illustrated and described as new records for Iran mycobiota. Furthermore, ...

A conceptual model that provides a means of viewing changes in vegetation as responses to weathering of soil mantles over thousands ofyears has been developed from investigations of vegetation communities on a soil chronosequence on sand dunes extending back in time to at least the last interglacial. Progressive and retrogressive phases in natural plant succession are indicated by this sequence...

While Hymenoscyphus fraxineus causes dieback of the European ash (Fraxinus excelsior), flowering ash (F. ornus) appears resistant to the pathogen. To date, contributions of endophytic fungi to host resistance are unknown. The following hypotheses were tested: (i) endophytic fungi enhance the resistance of F. excelsior to the pathogen; (ii) resistance of F. ornus relies on its community of endop...

Trauma to the adult CNS initiates multiple processes including primary and secondary axotomy, inflammation, and glial scar formation that have devastating effects on neuronal regeneration. After spinal cord injury, the infiltration of phagocytic macrophages coincides with long-distance axonal retraction from the initial site of injury, a deleterious phenomenon known as axonal dieback. We have p...