The effect of alcoholic extracts of the aerial parts of fagonia cretica on estrous cycle and implantation in female albino rats was studied, It induced random omission of heat phase in eh estrous cycle and exhibited 100% anti implantation activity without exhibiting any toxic manifestation, However it was found to have some strong androgenic antiprogestational activity, and immunostimulating pr...

Milesia cretica Bot & van Steenis sp. nov. is described from the Island of Crete, Greece. An identification key to all European species Latreille, 1804 provided, together with DNA barcodes distinguish new species.

Maize hybrids expressing the Cry1F toxin provide efficient control of lepidopteran pests. The Mediterranean corn borer, Sesamia nonagrioides (Lefèvre), is one of the most damaging pests of maize in the Mediterranean basin. In this work we firstly determined the efficacy of maize hybrids expressing the Cry1F toxin (event TC1507) to control neonates of S. nonagrioides. Leaf tissue feeding bioassa...

Newly described and illustrated in the family Meessiidae are Eudarcia topoliacola Gaedike, sp. n., Novotinea cretica Tineidae: Hapsifera tadjikistana Nemapogon paracyprica Neurothaumasia hackeri kaschmirella Dinica nepalica Gaedike Elatobia rufarea Tinea caucasicola Proterospastis meyi n. An illustration of imago Myrmecozela mongolica Petersen, 1965 is presented. First records for countries est...

Self-incompatibility (SI) in plants is a classic example of a trait evolving under strong frequency-dependent selection. As a consequence, population genetic theory predicts that the S locus, which controls SI, should maintain numerous alleles, display a high level of nucleotide diversity, and, in structured populations, show a lower level of among-population differentiation compared to neutral...

Transgenic rice to control stem borer damage is under development in China. To assess the potential of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) transgenes in stem borer control, the toxicity of five Bt protoxins (Cry1Aa, Cry1Ab, Cry1Ac, Cry1Ba and Cry1Ca) against two rice stem borers, Sesamia inferens (pink stem borer) and Chilo suppressalis (striped stem borer), was evaluated in the laboratory by feeding n...

In this study, new and additional records of 15 species the Aleocharinae subfamily (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) are presented from Türkiye. Among them, Dinusa cretica Assing, 2013 is first record Besides, Autalia longicornis Scheerpeltz, 1947 Maurachelia roubali (Lohse, 1970) Marmara Region Enalodroma hepatica (Erichson, 1839) Aegean reported for time. addition, given many provinces