Maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Aiton) and Saharan cypress (Cupressus sempervirens L. var. dupreziana [A. Camus] Silba) are two cone-bearing seed coniferous woody plants. The chemical composition of their essential oils, isolated from needles and leaves by hydrodistillation, was analyzed with gas chromatography (GC) and gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC/MS). A total of 66 and 28 compounds ...

Cypress canker caused by Seiridium cardinale was controlled by benomyl and chlorothalonil but not by tribasic copper sulfate. Cypress canker has been present in California since 1927 where it has caused considerable damage to planted Monterey cypress, Cupressus macrocarpa (6). The popularity of this California native range and usually canker disease appears, but some uninformed people still pla...

An exotic, specialist seed chalcid, Megastigmus schimitscheki, has been introduced along with its cedar host seeds from Turkey to southeastern France during the early 1990s. It is now expanding in plantations of Atlas Cedar (Cedrus atlantica). We tested the efficiency of a reaction-diffusionadvection model to survey the spatio-temporal expansion of the insect populations. The model was also use...

From the leaves of Microbiota decussata (Cupressaceae) biflavones: cupressuflavone, amentoflavone and 7-O-methylamentoflavone were isolated and identified. The amount of cupressuflavone in Microbiota decussata and xCupressocyparis leylandii (Leyland cypress) (Cupressaceae) was determined by HPLC (1.82% and 0.83%, respectively). The chemical composition of essential oils from bark and leaves of ...

In the course of studies on biological active constituents from woody plants, we previously reported the isolation of many lignan derivatives as neurite outgrowth-promoting compounds from an ethyl acetate soluble fraction of Japanese Cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa). Further chemical investigation on the residual parts of the ethyl acetate soluble fraction of a methanol extract of Japanese Cypres...

We detect curves in CEDAR digit images.

Lignin model compounds, synthetic lignins, and cedar wood have been analyzed by pyrolysis-gas chromatography(-mass spectrometry) in the presence of tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMAH) to examine the behavior of beta-5 substructures specifically under these conditions. Two model compounds contained a beta-5 linkage and a gamma-CH2OH group. The phenolic model compound produced stilbene products ...

During rough rice storage, changes occur in physicochemical and functional properties of the rice kernel, a process often referred to as aging. This study was conducted to determine how storing rough rice at different moisture contents (MCs) and temperatures over a range of storage durations can impact the nutraceutical content of the rice kernel. Rough rice (‘Cypress’, ‘Cocodrie’, ‘XL6’, ‘XP10...

Shifts of functional traits are important because phenotypic responses of species to environmental changes caused by natural and anthropogenic disturbances are fundamental in determining the risk of population extinction. This study tested the effect of forest thinning on the body shape and male genital size of an endemic ground beetle species Carabus masuzoi (Imura and Satô 1989) (Coleoptera,...

this paper deals with the suitability of agricultural and municipal organic wastes as growing media components for ornamental plants. nine growing media prepared by mixing the main components of peat (p), hazelnut husk (h) and maize straw (m) with the fertilizer sources of municipal solid waste compost (c), bio-solid (b) and poultry manure (pm) were compared against soil-based (c1) and peat-bas...