Ceutorhynchus assimilis has been selected as a potential biological control agent of Lepidium draba, which is a Eurasian invasive weed in North America. Preliminary studies indicated specificity of this weevil collected in southern France on L. draba. This result was in discord with the pest status of C. assimilis found in the literature. Host-specificity tests based both on field and laborator...

Otostegia persica (Burm.) Boiss. is the medicinal plant of Lamiaceae family that has long been used traditionally in treatment of severe diarrhea, common cold, flatulence, headache, sore, fever, skin allergies, and blood fat and sugar. This research was conducted in 2013 for one year to identify some ecological characteristics and potential allelopathicof O. persica in Hormozgan province. The c...

The gas mixtures from cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiue inhibited growth and sporulation of Aspergillus niger and germination of seeds of Lepidium sativum. In test conditions seven volatile organic metabolites in the culture gases were identified by gas-liquid chromatography (GLC) as acetaldehyde, ethyl acetate, ethanol, n-propanol, isobutanoi, and a mixture of isopentanols (I part 2-methyl-...

The objective of this work was to examine possible effects that the exposure to cadmium and selenium might have in Lepidium sativum. Nine hydroponic cultures were obtained, according to the three level factorial design that covered plants exposure to 0, 0.5, 2.0 mg L-1 of cadmium (as cadmium chloride) and selenium (as sodium selenite). Shoots growth was evaluated during two weeks after germinat...