Domestication of indigenous tree species in agroforestry can play a seminal role to mitigate and diversify existing farm ecosystems adapt against the vagaries climate change by imitating “Mother Nature” its pristine state. In this direction, developing elite genotypes matching with need farmers associated industry fetch higher prices market, while ensuring economic livelihood security subsisten...

Somatic embryogenesis is a developmental process during which plant somatic cells, under in vitro conditions, produce embryogenic cells that develop into embryos. an efficient method clonal propagation of plants. Mature embryos were used as explant source for callus formation and the produced compact, healthy most mature induced callus. showed similar morphologically to their non-somatic counte...

The propagation via clonal stem cuttings is a frequent practice in tree plantations. Despite their clonal origin, the trees establish differently according to weather, temperature and nutrient availability, as well as the presence of various stresses. Here, clonal Populus trichocarpa (cv. Muhle Larson) cuttings from different sites were transferred into a common, fully nutrient supplied environ...

A puzzle in Chagas disease research has been to correlate molecular markers with epidemiology since isolates of Trypanosoma cruzi exhibit a broad host range, induce distinct clinical presentations in patients and show great diversity in biological and biochemical characteristics. Early studies on population genetics revealed substantial isozymic variability among isolates of T. cruzi defining t...

Many plant species have two modes of reproduction: sexual and asexual. Both modes of reproduction have often been viewed as adaptations to temporally or spatially variable environments. The plant should adjust partitioning to match changes in the estimated success of the two reproductive modes. Perennial plants showed that favorable habitats in soil nutrients or water content tend to promote cl...