We formulate and describe a visual compactification of the Teichmüller space by Weil-Petersson geodesic rays emanating from a point X. We focus on analogies with Bers’s compactification: due to non-completeness, finite rays correspond to cusps, and such cusps are dense in the visual sphere. By analogy with a result of Kerckhoff and Thurston, we show the natural action of the mapping class group...

Background: Medicinal plants have gained prime importance in treating several fatal diseases, such as cancer, diabetes, and eczema, because they are a rich source of bioactive phytochemicals safer alternative to synthesized chemical compounds. Genus Ziziphus Mill. belongs the family Rhamnaceae, which comprises 100 accepted plant species is well known for multipurpose applications food, fodder, ...

Introduction Jujube (Ziziphus mauritiana Lam.) tree is subjected to attack by different fungal pathogens causing various diseases. In India, powdery mildew (Oidium sp.) causes defoliation and fruit-drop. Sooty mold (Cladosporium zizyphi) causes leaves to fall. Leaf spot results from infection by Cercospora spp. and Isariopsis indica var. zizyphi. Leaf rust, caused by Phakopsora zizyphi-vulgaris...

A study was undertaken to analyses the heritability, correlation and path co-efficient for growth and fruit characters in twenty ber (Ziziphus mauritiana Lam) genotypes grown at Fruit Research Farm under Horticulture Research Centre, BARI during January to June 2006. The highest range of variation was recorded in fruit weight (6.63-44.72 g), followed by yield per plant (14.88 64.99 kg), stone w...

Ziziphus mauritiana methanol crude extract was evaluated for its insecticidal properties against Aedes aegypti, Ae. albopictus, and Culex quinquefasciatus mosquito larvae. Bioassays larvae mosquitoes were done following World Health Organization’s guidelines. Late third and/or early fourth instar of larva assayed five different concentrations viz. 100, 150, 200, 250, 300 mg ml–1 Z. extracts. Fr...