The establishment of riparian protection forests in the Three Gorges Reservoir (TGR) is an ideal measure to cope with the eco-environmental problems of the water-level fluctuation zone (WLFZ). Thus, the information for screening winter-flood-tolerant woody plant species is useful for the recovery and re-establishment of the riparian protection forests in the TGR WLFZ. Therefore, we discussed th...

Fungal endophytes colonize living internal plant tissues without causing any visible symptoms of disease. Endophytic fungi associated with healthy leaves may play an important role in the protection of hosts against herbivores and pathogens. In this study, the diversity of foliar endophytic fungi (FEF) of the southern temperate tree Embothrium coccineum (Proteaceae), as well as their role in pl...

Question: Is the assumption of trait independence implied in Westoby’s (1998) leaf-height-seed (LHS) ecology strategy scheme upheld in a Mediterranean grazing system dominated by annuals? Is the LHS approach applicable at the community level? Location: Northern Israel. Methods: LHS traits (specific leaf area [SLA], plant height and seed mass), and additional leaf traits (leaf dry matter content...

1 Department of Entomology Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station and Louisiana State University Agricultural Center Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA 2 Laboratory for Microbiological Control, All Russian Institute for Plant Protection, St. Petersburg Pushkin, Russia 3 Laboratory of Cytology of Unicellular Organisms, Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia 4 Labo...

1 Chemical Ecology Group, Department of Plant Protection Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden 2 SUAMME, Mas de Saporta, Lattes, France 3 Plant Protection Institute MTA ATK, Budapest, Hungary 4 Swiss Federal Research Station, Wädenswil, Switzerland 5 Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, ...

Plant protection products are used in agriculture to improve yields, but this use can cause contamination of the environment and is also likely to have adverse short and long term effects on agricultural workers. This poster describes a systems approach to reducing the risk of operator exposure to plant protection products through the introduction of ergonomics to the design process of large ag...

Costs and benefits for partners in mutualistic interactions can vary greatly, but surprisingly little is known about the factors that drive this variation across systems. We conducted a meta-analysis of ant-plant protective mutualisms to quantify the effects of ant defenders on plant reproductive output, to evaluate if reproductive effects were predicted from reductions in herbivory and to iden...

U strukturi poljoprivredne proizvodnje Republike Hrvatske prevladava biljna proizvodnja. Bez provođenja neke od mjera zaštite gubitci potencijalnog prinosa na svjetskoj razini bili bi oko 50%. Poljoprivreda EU se još uvijek uvelike oslanja upotrebu pesticida za zaštitu bilja a prosječni specifični troškovi biljne (u koje spada i trošak zaštite) čine 41,5% ukupnog troška u EU-28. Primjenom stand...

EPPO have since 1987 had an activity on creating guidelines for Good Plant Protection Practise with the overall aim of helping to minimze the risk from using pesticides. This has so fare lead to the creation of 18 specific guidelines on crops of major importance in the EPPO region. The wish is that these guidelines should be used to guide national authorities and advisory services on questions ...