Four new β-orcinol metabolites, hypotrachynic acid (1), deoxystictic acid (2), cryptostictinolide (3) and 8 ́-methylconstictic acid (4) along with the metabolites 8 ́methylstictic acid (5), 8 ́-methylmenegazziaic acid (6), stictic acid (7), 8 ́-ethylstictic acid (8) and atranorin (9), that have been previously described, were isolated for the first time from the tissue extracts of the lichen Hypotr...

Grazing cattle suflflering from ataxia and paralysis in hind quarters and horn damage were found in some detached is)ands of Okinawa prefecture, Japan, Clinical syndromes resembled the typical ones of the cycad poisoning reported previously in Papua, New Guinea, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic. and Australia, Among these diseased cattle. two cows i-'ith seyere ciinical signs were examined patho...

The responses of 20 species of ornamental palms and one cycad (Cycas revoluta) to two populations of the reniform nematode, Rotylenchulus reniformis, from southern Florida were studied in two greenhouse experiments conducted in 1989-1991 and 1991-92. Ornamental palms in pots were exposed to initial population densities of 400 and 1,500 R. reniformis/l00 cm(3) soil for 16 and 15 months, respecti...