The life history of figs (Ficus, Moraceae) involves pollination by specialized insects and seed dispersal by vertebrate frugivores. This three-way interaction raises the possibility of conflict between pollinators and seed dispersers over fig resources. The conflict might be mediated in dioecious figs by the segregation of inflorescences with specialized male and female sexual functions, termed...

Mycotoxins are toxic secondary fungal metabolites. A large variety of mycotoxins have been described, but only a minority of them occur regularly in feed and food items under normal conditions and pose a risk to feed and food safety. The important moulds producing toxins during storage belong to the genera of Penicillium, or Aspergillus. The most important storage toxins are probably ochratoxin...

The current project builds on previous grants under the Darwin Initiative that focused on Nepal's flora, a key one of which dealt with plant information and technology transfer, run by the Natural History Museum in London. But the current project is much more ambitious. Although only funded for three years at present, the team hopes funds will be made available for the estimated 15 years it wil...

This paper originally appeared as a Master Thesis at NES in 1999 as a part of the project "Russian Financial Industrial Groups", which was carried out within the program "Transforming Government in Economies in Transition" generously sponsored by Ford Foundation (Grant Number 950-1503). I am deeply indebted to the project advisors David Brown (SITE) and Sergei Guriev (NES and RECEP) for their g...

This work reports the results of a study carried out to verify applicability CEN EN 13751 method, based on photo-stimulated luminescence (PSL) technique, for identification irradiated fruit. A total 15 types fresh and dried fruit not (0.5 1 kGy) were tested. Preliminary tests performed samples kiwis, lemons, mangoes, oranges, papayas, pineapples tangerines, dates, prunes raisins. Successively, ...

Parasitoids of dried-fruit insects were surveyed at a culled fig warehouse in Fresno, CA. Three parasitoids of pyralid larvae were found: Habrobracon hebetor (Say), Venturia canescens (Gravenhorst), and at least one species in the genus Goniozus Förster. Two parasitoids of pyralid pupae also were noted: Mesostenus gracilis (Cresson) and a new species of Psilochalcis Keifer. The latter is a new ...