Paterson's curse (Echium plantagineum L.) is an annual/biennial species in the family Boraginaceae. Native to N.W. Africa, the Iberian Peninsula and Atlantic Western Europe, it is a noxious weed in Australia and has spread over 30 million ha resulting in >A$250 million annual losses to...

Chosenia arbutifolia A. Skvorts. is a relict endemic of the Asian Pacific Coast adapted to flood activity of mountain rivers. The studies were executed in Russia in south and central areas of Magadan Oblast (the flood plains of the rivers Yana, Chelomdzha, Kolyma, Dukcha) and in the south of...

There is little doubt among agricultural scientists about the gravity of the challenges posed by pests and suboptimal environmental conditions including global climate change, and movement of invasive species to providing sustainably produced food, fodder, fiber and bioenergy for an ever-increasing ...

Although carbon (C) additions to soil have been used in restoration to combat invasive species through changes in soil nitrogen (N) availability, carbon amendments to soil derived from plant material can impact soil N availability in a species-specific manner. As such, amendment-driven feedbacks on ...

Old World climbing fern (Lygodium microphyllum) has become one of the most serious ecological threats to the integrity of the greater Everglades ecosystem of south Florida. In this study, we analyzed the effects of Old World climbing fern on surface soil characteristics at invaded sites in Florida. ...

The use of DNA markers to identify products involved in sexual differentiation is still under research in some organisms as the Teleostei fishes, which are important due to their use for consumption, aquarism, genetic and phylogenetic studies. Even with all these research about sexual development...

The Eurasian woodwasp, Sirex noctilio Fabricius is an important forestry quarantine pest in the world, which prefers to attack conifer. It is native to Eurasia and North Africa. However, over the last one hundred years, S. noctilio has been gradually introduced to New Zealand and Austria in...

A survey for the rat lungworm, Angiostrongylus cantonensis, a nematode parasite of rats and potentially injurious to humans, was conducted in Florida in 2011-2013 in concomitance with an eradication program of the giant African snail, Lissachatina fulica, an invasive snail recently found in...

Incorporating annual forages into an integrated livestock-crop management system may help prolong the grazing season for most livestock-management systems in the Upper Great Plains. The objectives of this study were to determine (1) the differences in sheep performance ADG (average daily gain)...