Hazelnut (Corylus avellana) is one of the most cultivated nut crops worldwide, with Turkey (665,000 tonnes) and Italy (140,560 representing leading countries in global production (Król & Gantner, 2020). During summer 2022, a survey was done to identify fungal species associated hazelnut kernel rot five commercial orchards Latium region Italy. A newly recorded isolated from diseased nuts using s...

The Mediterranean area represents one of the most suitable and diversified environments for horticultural crops, being this propriety well expressed in the commonly accepted definition of “Mediterranean cultivated garden”. In Italy, fruit crops have been in the past introduced and expanded in different environments depending on the species and adaptability to the physiographic characteristics o...

The quality of cool-season turfgrasses frequently declines during periods of high temperature stress. Simple tests are needed to rapidly identify heat tolerant germplasm for incorporation into breeding pro­ grams. Facilitative screening tests have been devised, however, in the few studies that have been performed only immature and green­ house or growth chamber-grown plants have been evaluated....

ed by Mercè Piqueras, INTERNATIONAL MICROBIOLOGY, from a lecture given by the author at the Institute for Catalan Studies, Barcelona, on October 19, 2005. 70 INT. MICROBIOL. Vol. 9, 2006 In 1879, Patrick Manson (1844–1922), a Scottish physician who had worked in China for over 20 years, demonstrated that so-called Bancroft’s filaria (Wuchereria bancrofti) was transmitted via the bite of a mosqu...

The orange spiny whitefly, Aleurocanthus spiniferus, is reported for the first time in district of Catania, Sicily (IT). pest was observed on ornamental sour trees cultivated along roads town Catania as well commercial citrus orchards Plain Catania. Italy second European citrus-producing country, after Spain, and more than 50% Italian are produced Sicily, so spread this island new urgently requ...

Traditional ichnofabric-descriptive (semiquantitative) schemes rely upon subjective estimates of the degree to which original sedimentary fabrics have been disrupted. This paper presents an objective method of quantifying bioturbation in hemipelagic sediments based on a thin-section image-analysis technique. In order to perform these analyses, optical or backscattered electron micrographs are p...

Stang et al.1.Stang A. Standl F. Kowall B. Brune, J. Böttcher, M. Brinkmann al., Excess mortality due to COVID-19 in Germany.J Infect. 2020 Sep 19; Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (71) explored age-specific numbers of weekly deaths Germany from 2016 June 2020. We wish complement their results and conclusion that excess existed for two months with analyses higher spatial resolution. Importa...

Fibrous tremolite is a mineral species belonging to the amphibole group. It is present almost everywhere in the world as a natural contaminant of other minerals, like talc and vermiculite. It can be also found as a natural contaminant of the chrysotile form of asbestos. Tremolite asbestos exposures result in respiratory health consequences similar to the other forms of asbestos exposure, includ...