Verticillium wilt is a serious disease of pistachio caused by Verticilliumdahliae. Control of the disease is difficult due to soil borne nature of the causal agent. Verticillium wilt has been biologically controlled by Trichoderma spp. In the present study, Trichoderma spp. was isolated from soils of pistachio orchards and their effect was investigated on radial growth of Verticillium dahliae b...

The fauna of helminths of hydrophilic birds was subject of many works in Ukraine. But the most of investigators dealt with helminth fauna of waterfowls in general. And only few works were dedicated to the parasitic nematodes. There are registered 81 species of helminths on Ukraine and 36 species of nematode of hydrophilic bird for Polissya (23 species for Belarus. 15 for Poland and 18 for Ukrai...

The lake brown trout is a salmonids fish regarded as a stationary form of the migratory trout. Within 2003-2004, 31 lake brown trout (Salmo trutta lacustris L.) from Lake Wdzydze (Poland), were examined for the presence of parasites following commonly used procedures. The parasites found represented Digenea: Diplostomum sp., Posthodiplostomum cuticola (Nordmann, 1832), Sphaerostomum globiporum ...

We describe two carnivoran coprolites found in the pseudokarst natural carnivore trap of Batallones-3, from Late Miocene Spain. The larger one, comprising multiple indistinguishable fragments broken and corroded bones, indicates that producer dropping might have been highly capable crushing softer parts large bones. On other hand, smaller one shows several relatively more complete bone fragment...

4 Qing Hu, Yafei Li a, , Hongjun Wang, Yi Shen, Chao Zhang, Guijie Du, Ding 5 Tang, Zhukuan Cheng 6 a State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, 7 Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China. 8 b University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China. 9 These authors contributed equally to this work 10 Corresponding author: Zhukuan ...