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...

Invasive plant species which also include Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus L.), are plants which come from other floral-geographical areas and in process of competition they suppress autochthonous gene by conquering available ecological systems. The spread of foreign species is becoming...

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...

The Cuatrociénegas invasive jewel cichlid Hemichromis guttatus was exposed to 17β-estradiol-enriched Artemia nauplii at a concentration of 200 mg/L. A total of 75 larvae were exposed to the treatment during 60 days starting at 15 day post hatching (DPH) resulting in 100% feminization, although...

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 identification of sexual DNA markers has served many purposes, from basic knowledge on sexual development and differentiation, to the assessment of sex reversion of hormonal exposed fish. In the present study several candidate genes were analyzed to be validated as sexual markers for the...