The aim was to estimate the impacts of invasive Impatiens parviflora on forests' herbal layer communities. A replicated Before-After-Control-Impact field experiment and comparisons with adjacent uninvaded plots were used. The alien's impact on species richness was tested using hierarchical generalized mixed effect models with Poisson error structure. Impact on species composition was tested usi...

The discrete decomposition with finite multiplicities of square-integrable cuspforms, and concommitant estimates, are foundational. Lie-group and symmetric-space versions of these results were known [Selberg 1956], [Gelfand-Fomin 1952] in the mid 1950’s. The general assertion was made in [GelfandGraev 1962] and [Gelfand-PS 1963], the latter observing that an adelic formulation can proceed in th...

One new coumarin, dryofracoumarin A (1), and eight known compounds 2-9 were isolated from Dryopteris fragrans (L.) Schott. Their structures were established on the basis of extensive spectroscopic data analyses and comparison with reported spectroscopic data. The new compound 1 was determined to be 8-hydroxyl-4-isopropyl-7-methyl-6-methyl-2H-benzopyran-2-one. Two dimers, trans- and cis-3-(3,4-d...

Studies on genetic diversity help us to unveil the evolutionary processes of species and populations and can explain several traits of diploid-polyploid complexes such as their distributions, their breeding systems, and the origin of polyploids. We examined the allozyme variation of Dryopteris aemula and D. oreades, diploid ferns with highly fragmented habitats, and the allotetraploid D. corley...

The global burden of cancer continues to increase largely with the aging and growth of the world population. The purpose of the present work was to find new anticancer molecules from a natural source. We utilized chromatographic methods to isolate compounds from medicinal plant Dryopteris fragrans (L.) Schott. The structure of the new compounds was determined by spectroscopic and spectrometric ...

Cancer is one of the most major diseases that threatens human health and life. The aim of this work was to obtain novel anticancer molecules from D. fragrans, a kind of medicinal plant. The structure of the new compound was identified using spectroscopic data (¹H-NMR, 13C-NMR and two dimensions NMR). Its anticancer properties were evaluated using the 3-(4,5-dimethyl-2-thiazolyl)-2,5-diphenyl-2-...

Dopp (1) demonstrated that the extract from mature prothalli of the fern species Ptcridiwtn1 aquiilinunil (L.) Kuhln hastened the onset of antheridium formation in young prothalli of this species by several days and in the prothalli of Dryopteris filixwwlas (L). Schott by several weeks. Dopp's conclusion that the prothalli of P. aquilinit elaborate a specific antheridium-inducing factor was con...