Section Gamosepalum has been reported from Turkey for the first time by Dudley. In recent years, several species of this section were reported as new records for Iran. Four species of Alyssum section are tranfered from sect. Alyssum to sect. Gamosepalum with considering of important characters in each section. These changes made two synonymies. Five species of Gamosepalum section including A. l...

On June 11th, 2008 InBev made a $65/share bid to buy Anheuser-Busch stock and was rejected. InBev devised a plan to oust the management of Anheuser-Busch and selected another management team to take their place. This is, to date, the largest hostile bid in U.S. history. This paper extends Margrabe’s (1978) stochastic option model by applying it to hostile takeovers. The model in this paper is a...

White pine blister rust, caused by the fungus Cronartium ribicola J. C. Fisch., is a virulent mortality agent of five-needle pines like western white (Pinus monticola D. Don.). For decades, lo...

Two species of Pb-adapted shrubs, Alyssum montanum and Daphne jasminea, were evaluated in vitro for their tolerance to elevated concentrations of cadmium. Shoot cultures were treated with 0.5, 2.5, and 5.0 μM CdCl2 for 16 weeks and analyzed for their organogenic response, biomass accretion, pigment content, and macronutrient status. Cadmium accumulation and its root-to-shoot translocation were ...

Abeli, T., Dalrymple, S.E., Mondoni, A., Orsenigo, S., and Rossi, G. 2014. Integrating a biogeographical approach into assisted colonization activities is urgently needed. Plant Biosyst. 148(6):13551357. Adamidis, G.C., Dimitrakopoulos, P.G., Manolis, A., and Papageorgiou, A.C. 2014. Genetic diversity and population structure of the serpentine endemic Ni hyperaccumulator Alyssum lesbiacum. Plan...