Cassida rubiginosa Muller (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) is a polyphagous pest and commonly distributed across the world. This species regarded as natural enemy of weeds by many researchers, while it also some cultivated plants. In this study, biological parameters C. fed on S. marianum O. boissieri (Asteraceae) were investigated.Average periods egg 5 larval stages, pre-pupa, pupa total developmen...

Numerous species of the Asteraceae, the composites, are famous for their use in both traditional and conventional medicine. Reliable anatomical descriptions of these plants and of possible adulterations provide a basis for fast identification and cheap purity controls of respective medicinal drugs by means of light microscopy. Nevertheless, detailed comparative studies on root and rhizome anato...

Matrix projection models occupy a central role in population and conservation biology. Matrix models divide a population into discrete classes, even if the structuring trait exhibits continuous variation (e.g., body size). The integral projection model (IPM) avoids discrete classes and potential artifacts from arbitrary class divisions, facilitates parsimonious modeling based on smooth relation...

5 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, 6 Siirt University, 56100 Siirt, Turkey; Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Yüzüncü Yıl 7 University, 65080 Van, Turkey; Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Art, Siirt 8 University, 56100 Siirt, Turkey; British Geological Survey, Environmental Science Centre, 9 Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 ...

The potential chemopreventive properties of the crude extract of Onopordum cynarocephalum were evaluated. Growth inhibition was investigated in FHs74Int human normal intestinal cells and ModeK mouse normal intestinal cell line and in two human colon cancer cells HCT-116 (p53+/+) and HT-29 (p53+/-). The extract was not cytotoxic to FHs74Int cells at concentrations 2-fold higher than the IC50 of ...