Three β-cyclocitral-derived halolactones, which exhibit antifeedant activity towards storage product pests, were subjected to microbial transformation processes. Among the thirty tested strains of filamentous fungi and yeast, the most effective biocatalysts were Absidia cylindrospora AM336, Mortierella isabellina AM212 and Mortierella vinaceae AM149. As a result of regio- and enantioselective h...

AlPiNA is a symbolic model checker for High Level Petri nets. It is comprised of two independent modules: a GUI plugin for Eclipse and an underlying model checking engine. AlPiNA’s objective is to perform efficient and user-friendly, easy to use model checking of large software systems. This is achieved by separating the model and its properties from the model checking-related concerns: the use...

Canopy disturbances such as windthrow events have obvious impacts on forest structure and composition aboveground, but changes in soil microbial communities and the consequences of these changes are less understood.We characterized the densities of a soil-borne pathogenic oomycete (Pythium) and a common saprotrophic zygomycete (Mortierella) in nine pairs of forest gaps created by windthrows and...

1Resident Physician at Hospital Estadual Vila Alpina/Diagnostic Imaging Service II, associated with the Luiz Roberto Barata Barradas Specialist Medical Outpatient Clinic (AME), São Paulo, SP, Brazil 2Resident Physician at Hospital A.C.Camargo Cancer Center, São Paulo, SP, Brazil 3Orthopedist, Prefeitura Municipal de Barueri, Barueri, SP, Brazil 4Supervising Physician at the Continuing Education...

• Estimation of the proportion of undescribed fungal taxa is an issue that has remained unresolved for many decades. Several very different estimates have been published, and the relative contributions of traditional taxonomic and next-generation sequencing (NGS) techniques to species discovery have also been called into question recently. • Here, we addressed the question of what proportion of...

Los impactos del cambio global sobre la biodiversidad muestran con frecuencia heterogeneidad de respuestas a nivel espacial. programas ciencia ciudadana como el Catalan Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (CBMS) permiten estudiar estado las poblaciones mariposas largo plazo y en amplias escalas espaciales, entender así los motores que afectan. En este trabajo se han calculado, utilizando una nueva meto...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The distribution and differentiation times of flowers in monoecious wind-pollinated plants are fundamental for the understanding of their mating patterns and evolution. Two closely related South American Nothofagus species were compared with regard to the differentiation times and positions of staminate and pistillate flowers along their parent growth units (GUs) by quantita...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The Alpine Meadow Grass Poa alpina is common in subalpine and alpine natural sites and agriculturally used land, where it is an important fodder grass. Natural factors and human land use are supposed to have been shaping its genetic diversity for hundreds of years. The species comprises sexually and vegetatively reproducing plants. The aim of this study was to investigate th...