Researchers from the Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, chose Arabidopsis thaliana, a small flowering plant native to Eurasia and Africa, to study its wound signaling. According to lead researcher Xu Lin, a wound can be seen as a "double-edged sword...
From 'Foreign Natives' to 'Native Foreigners'. Explaining Xenophobia in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Citizenship and Nationalism, Identity and Politics Xenophobia is a political discourse. As such, its historical development as well as the conditions of its existence must be elucidated in terms of ...
However, several native plant species that provide key ecosystem services persist in and adjacent to transformed communities, offering substantial opportunities for restoration to achieve certain goals. 展开 关键词: INVASIVE ALIEN PLANTS RIPARIAN ZONES FYNBOS BIOME VEGETATION ECOSYSTEMS MANAGEMENT PROVINCE DOI...
The meaning of MONEY PLANT is a European biennial plant (Lunaria annua) of the mustard family that is often grown for its ornamental disk-shaped seedpods—called also honesty, silver dollar plant.
This chapter reviews the current status of invasions of non-native plants in Africa. It draws on the most comprehensive global database of naturalized plant species (GloNAF) to provide a quantitative assessment of the distribution of naturalized plants across the continent. South Africa has the ...
Background and Aims While invasive species may escape from natural enemies in the new range, the establishment of novel biotic interactions with species native to the invaded range can determine their success. Biological control of plant populations can be achieved by manipulation of a species' enemi...
Stinknet, also called Globe Chamomile, is native to South Africa and was classified as an Arizona noxious weed in January 2020. The weed has spread from severe initial infestations in northwest and north Phoenix into metropolitan Phoenix and now has a foothold in Tucson and Ajo. ...
Temperate-subtropical transition areas for native woody plant species in Florida, USA: Present locations, predicted changes under climatic warming, and imp... Temperate-Subtropical Transition Areas for Native Woody Plant Species in Florida, USA: Present Locations, Predicted Changes under Climatic Warming...
beneath large trees where grass has difficulty in thriving. Atlantic ivy (H. hibernica), native to the Atlantic coast of Europe, is also cultivated and is aninvasive speciesin parts of westernNorth America. Algerian ivy (H. algeriensis), native toNorth Africa, has a number of variegated ...
grape hyacinth- any of various early flowering spring hyacinths native to Eurasia having dense spikes of rounded blue flowers resembling bunches of small grapes scilla,squill- an Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers ...