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Pest categorisation of Oligonychus perseae
EFSA Journal, Volume 20, Issue 6, June 2022., 2022 Abstract The EFSA Panel on Plant Health performed a pest categorisation of Oligonychus perseae (Acari: Prostigmata: Tetranychidae), the persea mite, for the EU. O. perseae is a tropical species that originated in Mesoamerica and has now spread and established in California, Florida, Hawaii, Morocco, southern Europe and Israel.
EFSA Panel on Plant Health (PLH) +24 more
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Functional Ecology, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 341-355, February 2022., 2022 A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article. Abstract Tropical tree species span a range of life‐history strategies within a fast–slow continuum. The position of a species within this continuum is thought to reflect a negative relationship between growth and storage, with fast‐growing species allocating ...
Caroline Signori‐Müller +19 more
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Report of new invasive scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea), Crypticerya multicicatrices Kondo and Unruh (Monophlebidae) and Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green) (Pseudococcidae), on the islands of San Andres and Providencia, Colombia, with an updated taxonomic key to iceryine scale insects of South America [PDF]
, 2012 The multicicatrices fluted scale, Crypticerya multicicatrices Kondo and Unruh (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Monophlebidae) is reported from the islands of San Andres and Providencia, Colombia, as a recent invasive species.
Gullan, Penny +2 more
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Hepatoprotective Plants from Bangladesh: A Biophytochemical Review and Future Prospect
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2021, Issue 1, 2021., 2021 Liver diseases are quite prevalant in many densely populated countries, including Bangladesh. The liver and its hepatocytes are targeted by virus and microbes, as well as by chemical environmental toxicants, causing wide‐spread disruption of metabolic fuctions of the human body, leading to death from end‐stage liver diseases.
Razina Rouf +7 more
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Journal of Nanomaterials, Volume 2021, Issue 1, 2021., 2021 This paper is aimed at how to select, extract, and characterize natural dyes and to use them as sensitizers in dye‐sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Dyes obtained from fresh sources of annatto fruits, black plums, cactus fruits, turmeric roots, and red spinach leaves were used as sensitizers.
Shibu Joseph +6 more
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Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2021, Issue 1, 2021., 2021 Studies on medicinal ethnobotany in rural areas and communities are important for documentation and generation of indigenous knowledge on the medicinal use of plants, as well as identification of new botanicals of pharmacological significance. This paper presents, for the first time, the quantitative ethnobotanical uses of medicinal plants in Ile‐Ife ...
Yusuf Ola Mukaila +5 more
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A new species of Ptiloglossa from Mexico, with new records of Ptiloglossa cyaniventris from Panama and Costa Rica (Hymenoptera: Colletidae) [PDF]
, 2014 A new bee species of the genus Ptiloglossa Smith (Colletidae: Diphaglossinae: Caupolicanini) is described and figured from Jalisco, Mexico, while new records are provided for Ptiloglossa cyaniventris Friese from Panama and a single locality in Costa Rica.
Ayala, Ricardo, Engel, Michael S.
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De novo transcriptome sequencing in Bixa orellana to identify genes involved in methylerythritol phosphate, carotenoid and bixin biosynthesis. [PDF]
, 2015 BackgroundBixin or annatto is a commercially important natural orange-red pigment derived from lycopene that is produced and stored in seeds of Bixa orellana L.
Aguilar-Espinosa, Margarita +5 more
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Tree Species Composition and Forest Stratification along the Gradients in the Dry Deciduous Forests of Godavari Valley, Telangana, India [PDF]
, 2018 It is important to understand the tree species composition, abundance, species diversity and stratification in tropical dry deciduous forests that are under threat. A quadrat study was attempted in the dry deciduous forests along the ecological
Raju, Vatsavaya S, Suthari, Sateesh
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Ciência Rural, 2008 O urucum é um arbusto da família Bixaceae, utilizado na fabricação de corantes naturais para a indústria alimentícia e cosmética. No Brasil, somente nos últimos 15 anos, houve maior interesse pelo cultivo, pois se tornou uma alternativa agrícola ...
Augusto Jorge Cavalcante Costa +2 more
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