In the study of parasitoids of the plane leaf miner Phyllonorycter platani during 2004, 18 polyphagous parasitoid species were recorded in four tree rows and four parks in Serbia (3 species of the family Ichneumonidae and 15 species of the family Eulophidae). Among the recorded parasitoids, the most significant were the species Minotetrastichus platanellus, Pediobius saulius and M. frontalis, f...

Today, the resistance of plants to stress is one most basic and important problems. Plants are sufficiently resistant oxidative disorders that occur with sudden changes in physiological state organism. This suggests plant cells have an antioxidant system can protect against oxygen radicals singlet oxygen. They different from animals immune system. The article describes Platanus orientalis tree ...

heavy metals are one of the most important and the best known pollutants that its entry into the environment causes to appear damages and different diseases. this study aimed to determine the amount of nickel concentration in soil and leaves of platanus orientalis, estimate and mapping it in rasht city area by using geostatistic method. to achieve these goals 126 samples of surface soil (0-30 c...

Ceratocystis fimbriata is a large, diverse complex of species that cause wilt-type diseases of many economically important plants. Previous studies have shown that isolates in three monophyletic lineages within the Latin American clade of C. fimbriata are host-specialized to cacao (Theobroma cacao), sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) and sycamore (Platanus spp.), respectively. We paired testers of ...

the distribution of phytophthora parsiana a high-temperature tolerant newly described species was studied in southern iran and examined its host range in woody perennial plant species in greenhouse condition under high inoculum potential. among different plant species examined, almonds were highly susceptible by different isolates. from 24 woody plants inoculated, the disease severity in descen...