This paper reports the impact of chilling injury on fruit plants in the Doon valley as a result of low temperatures induced by pool frost that occurred in the winters of 2002-08. The assessment of the extent of chilling injury was carried out by field surveys during spring in 2003, 2007 and 2008....

This paper reports the migration of larvae of Perixera illepidaria from mango, its host plant, to banana, a non-host, for pupation and the attendant parasitization of the looper pupae on banana with information on its parasitoids from Tamil Nadu, India. Pupation usually takes place in the open and ...

A retrospective study was conducted to determine the protein allergens in fruits causing allergies in Asturias, Spain. The study involved 56 patients (median age 29 years) diagnosed to have fruit allergies and seen at an outpatient clinic between 2010 and 2013. Study findings revealed that symptoms ...

The Jampuii hill ranges, Serhmun, Damcherra, Kanchanpur, Jolai and Hmuntha under North District, and Chawmanu, Saikar, Laljuri, Koramcherra and Kunchirra in Dhalai District were surveyed in an on-going study on the lianas of Tripura, India. Approximately 30 liana species have been collected and...

This paper presents the results of an experiment conducted in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, between 1995 and 2010, to evaluate the performance of litchi-based agri-horticulture models (AHMs) for livelihood security on degraded lands of the Indian Sub-Himalaya. Five litchi-based AHMs were studied in ...

This paper presents the results of the in vitro rearing and gallery tunnelling pattern of island pinhole borer, Xyleborus perforans. The semi-synthetic medium was customized by addition of host wood sawdust (pomegranate). The beetles cultivated in the semi-synthetic diet were similar in morphology...

This paper presents the results of studies conducted to identify the critical jamun (Syzygium cumini) fruit phenological stages that are highly susceptible to Anselmella kerrichi in order to plan management interventions. It was shown that the critical stage for infestation was G2 and the...

This is in response to the extensive commentary by Besnard & Rubio de Casas (2016; in this issue of New Phytologist, pp. 471-473) to Dıez et al. (2015) paper. According to them, Dıez et al. (2015) paper 'argues for at least two independent domestication events of the olive tree, opposing the...