The invasive plant species hamper crops, human activities and become part of dynamic ecosystems, which grow in varied habitats and harsh ecological conditions and often invade the new ecosystems. The campus of Pune Uni-versity is highly rich in phytodiversity of native and invasive weeds, which...

Cuscutaceae family is reviewed based on the literature and available herbarium materials. This is a monotypic family and includes a single genus, three subgenera and eighteen species in Iran, among them Cuscuta haussknechtii Engelm, is the only endemic species in Iran. This genus has been studied...

The application of alternative raw materials to manufacture particleboards has gained considerable attention and it is now the objective of various studies. The capim-annoni (Eragrostis plana Nees.) is an invasive grass in the southern fields of Brazil and appears to be an example of such...

Invasive exotic species cause adverse changes in vegetal communities where they are established, leading the invaded areas to a lower ecological condition, with the loss of the biodiversity at the species and several ecological processes level. Based upon this finding, this research aimed to...

Germination, floristic composition and phytosociology in the soil weed seed bank are important to know the weed flora and to predict weed infestations. The objective of this research was to assess and to compare germination, the weed flora and phytosociology of the soil weed seed bank in rice...

This educational material is produced to help government agencies, the academic community, and volunteers to identify invasive alien plant species in their area of work and that pose a threat in the landscape. Early detection of the species is an essential first step in the cost-effective removal...

The major part of the European green energy production accounts for biomass. In the decentralized energy production, the biomass used in combustion technologies is largely derived from woody biomass (dendromass). In order to ensure sustainability and maximum use of dendromass capacity available for ...

Watermelon is an economically important vegetable crop grown extensively worldwide. To facilitate the identification of horticulturally important traits and provide new information for genetic and genomic research on this species, a high-density genetic linkage map of watermelon was constructed...

Bactrocera zonata has been reported as invasive species in the African continent, including Egypt, coming from the Asia neighbors. Due to the fact that is a invasive pest species, no native parasitoid was expected to be present. Indeed, the introduction of exotic parasites was a logic approach in...

The Spotted Wing Drosophila, Drosophila suzukii, is an emerging agricultural pest of soft-skinned fruits. Since the 1980s, but particularly during the last decade, the small fly has invaded a large number of states in North America and many countries in Europe and South America. Here we present...