Lagerstroemia indica is a widely grown ornamental shrub or small tree that has become naturalised and invasive in many tropical subtropical regions of the world. often used to provide shade around parking areas, for median strip plantings along roads, also planted domestic gardens (CABI, 2019). The was introduced 2007 improve landscaping Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Between August October 2020, powder...

A new smut fungus, Urocystis phalaridis, is described on Phalaris sp. (Poaceae) from Iran.

sooty mold fungi are often associated with honeydew which insects secrete while feeding on the plant. a great variety of these fungi occur in the north of iran, especially on citrus ssp which is one of the most widely cultivated fruit trees in this region. during last 10 years, several collections of these fungi examined and 15 species have been recorded. in this paper seven previously unreport...

Eighty yellow mongooses, Cynictis penicillata, from five localities in South Africa were examined for arthropod parasites. Ten ixodid tick species, of which Haemaphysalis zumpti was the most abundant, prevalent and widely distributed, were collected. The mongooses were also infested with two mite species. Echidnophaga gallinacea was the most abundant of the eight flea species collected. It and ...

use of irradiation has long been proved to be effective in inducing new T z n e t i c variability in a quantitative trait. SCOSSIROLI (1954) irradiated D ~ o sophila mlanogaster populations that had ceased to respond to selection for sternopleural bristle. The irradiated populations now responded to further selection: the response to upward selection was remarkably high, while that to downward ...