seeds of most herbs such as medicinal plant alyssum bracteatum are known to have a dormancy period in a natural condition. therefore, the identification of factors affecting seed dormancy and germination in order to create optimum conditions for large-scale cultivation of medicinal plants is necessary. the survey was conducted at the research laboratory of biology, university of lorestan in aut...

Alyssum strigosum Banks & Sol. subsp. and A. cedrorum (Schott Kotschy) Dudley, which are two subspecies of with their morphological, anatomical, palynological traits, were presented in detail this study. The anatomical analysis has been carried out using handmade sections. transverse sections roots showed that have similar characters as primer structure. stem reflected the typical dicotyled...

The results from the investigation and analysis of the chromosome numbers and ploidy levels of 141 species and not nominal subspecies of Brassicaceae, their distribution and phytogeographical relations are discussed. Nearly 65 % of the taxa are diploids, most of them perennials, Mediterranean, Anatolian and Pontic floristic elements. Another 35 % are polyploids, c. 2/3 of them with tetraploid c...

Kelvin J. A. Davies,* Gennady Ermak,* Beverley A. Rothermel, Melanie Pritchard, Joseph Heitman, Joohong Ahnn, Flavio Henrique-Silva, Dana Crawford, Silvia Canaider,** Pierluigi Strippoli,** Paolo Carinci,** Kyung-Tai Min, Deborah S. Fox, Kyle W. Cunningham, Rhonda Bassel-Duby, Eric N. Olson, Zhuohua Zhang, R. Sanders Williams, Hans-Peter Gerber,*** Mercè Pérez-Riba, Hisao Seo, Xia Cao, Claude B...

Neolirata new genus (Eucharitidae: Eucharitini) is recognized based on males and females, with new descriptions of eggs, planidia and pupae. Redescriptions are provided for N. alta (Walker) and N. daguerrei (Gemignani) (comb. nov. transferred from Lirata) and a new description of N. furcula sp. nov. is presented. Females of N. alta deposit their eggs on the underside of leaves of Pseudabutilon ...