A neuroblastoma is an extracranial solid tumor diagnosed in childhood. Since tumor metastasis is the main cause of death for most neuroblastoma patients, an understanding of the mechanisms that modulate cancer cell invasion is a key to developing more effective chemotherapeutic agents. In the...

The Molluscans as a pest of agriculture and horticulture have already been known in many a regions. The present paper deals with the three molluscan pests viz., the Giant African snail, Achatina fulica (Bowdich.,1822), Land snail, Rachis punctatus (Anton, 1839) and Slug, Laevicaulis alte (Férussac, ...

Drosophila suzukii Matsumura (Diptera: Drosophilidae) is an agricultural pest with a wide host range. It is known to infest fruit that are still ripening on the plant, as well as rotting and damaged fruit. Our study sought to determine whether D. suzukii use mulberries (Morus spp.) and figs (Ficus...

BACKGROUND: In recent years, DNA-based markers have been used quite extensively because of their many advantages over the traditional morphological and biochemical markers. Many studies have shown that molecular markers are useful in delineating the genetic relationships among closely related...

Spider mite Tetranychus truncatus Ehara previously recorded from the Northwestern Himalayan regions of Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh in 1983 on Dahlia sp. now reported as a new record from Karnataka on cultivated and wild species of Morus. A key to the species of Tetranychus from India is...

A new distribution map is provided for Psacothea hilaris (Pascoe). Coleoptera: Cerambycidae. Hosts: fig (Ficus carica) and mulberry (Morus alba). Information is given on the geographical distribution in Europe (Italy, UK, England and Wales), Asia (China, Japan (Honshu, Kyushu, Ryukyu Archipelago,...

The presence of Hop stunt viroid (HSVd) was detected using RT-PCR and Northern blot hybridization in five of 60 samples from symptomless mulberry trees (Morus alba) collected in Italian and Lebanese orchards in July 2010. Infection levels were c. 10% in Lebanese and 8% in Italian samples....

Lymantria (Lymantria) lucescens (Butler) collections and observations were made at Toyota and Azumino, Honshu, Japan. Larvae are now recorded to feed on Fagaceae (Quercus, four species); Ulmaceae (Ulmus and Zelkova) and Moraceae (Morus). During the moth flight (July in Toyota), both sexes (but only ...

In order to guide safe use of pesticides scientifically and make a guideline for using propargite on mulberry safely, the dissipation and final residue characteristics of propargite in different parts of mulberry were explored. The method of liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry was...

The role of frugivorous birds in dispersal of the seeds of fleshy-fruited plants is well understood, but other groups of birds like granivores and omnivores can also act as vectors, especially in the process of non-standard dispersal. In this study we examined the role of two widely distributed...