The influence of temperature on the developmental times and survival of insects can largely determine their distribution. For invasive species, like the Argentine ant, Linepithema humile Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), these data are essential for predicting their potential range based on mechanistic models. In the case of this species, such data are too scarce and incomplete to make accurate p...

Fatih OĞUZ*, Turan YILDIZ, Ali BEYTUR, Haluk SÖYLEMEZ, Ramazan ALTINTAŞ, Emine ŞAMDANCI, Saadet ALAN Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, İnönü University, Malatya, Turkey Department of Pediatric Surgery, Malatya State Hospital, Malatya, Turkey Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, Dicle University, Diyarbakır, Turkey Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, İnönü University, ...

We evaluated the effects of interspecific competition on ant bait performance with two urban pest ants, the Argentine ant, Linepithema humile (Mayr), and the little black ant, Monomorium minimum (Buckley). In a laboratory study, the impact of a solid sulfluramid bait on M. minimum was diminished when L. humile were present, whereas the presence of M. minimum reduced the performance of a liquid ...

Mostafa Youssef, Ming Yang, and Bilge Yildiz Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Laboratory for Electrochemical Interfaces, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA (Received 22 ...

MATTHIEU DORIER1, Argonne National Laboratory, IL, USA GABRIEL ANTONIU, Inria, Rennes Bretagne Atlantique Research Centre, France FRANCK CAPPELLO, Argonne National Laboratory, IL, USA MARC SNIR, Argonne National Laboratory, IL, USA ROBERT SISNEROS, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, IL, USA ORCUN YILDIZ, Inria, Rennes Bretagne Atlantique Research Centre, France SHADI IBRAHIM, Inria, Re...

Thirty endophytic bacteria were isolated from various plant species growing near Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Based on a screening for various traits, including plant-beneficial properties and DNA fragment patterns, potential siblings were removed. The remaining isolates were taxonomically identified using 16S rDNA sequences and potential human and plant pathogens were removed. The remaining strai...

Tetrastigma hemsleyanum (Vitaceae) is an endangered medicinal plant endemic to China. Because of its widely known efficacy for treating many health problems, wild resources of this species are currently undergoing a rapid decline. Few studies have been conducted examining the population genetics or development of microsatellite loci for this plant. In this study, 14 microsatellite loci were iso...

Persian hogweed is a perennial herb and aromatic plant which has pharmaceutical and fodder values, and the main propagation method of this species is seed. The goal of this study was to investigate the effect of altitude on breaking dormancy and stimulate seed germination of this species. The study was designed and carried out using the test of seed analysis. For our purpose, seeds were collect...

Coumarins are nowadays an important group of organic compounds from natural sources that are useful in a number of fields. Because they possess different pharmacological properties, finding the proper extraction conditions for their separation from plant matrices is a very important step. In this report Pressurized Liquid Extraction (PLE) under different temperature conditions and with differen...

background & aim: because of seed germination ability of medicinal plants seed is low and, generally exposed to problem. priming is one of the techniques that help seeds to be germinated faster and uniformly. experimental: a laboratory experiment was carried out on germination and growth improvement in heracleum persicum desf.  by seed osmo-primming in seed technology laboratory ...