DIVERSIFICATION OF INCREMENT REACTIONS OF DOUGLAS FIR (PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII FRANCO) FROM MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS OF SOUTHERN POLAND

Diversification of increment reactions of Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii Franco) from mountainous regions of southern Poland

Dendroclimatological research presented in this paper concerns Douglas fir (P.menziesii) at 17 sites located in the area of the Sudetes Mountains, the Polish part of the Carpathians and Roztocze.The methods of principal Knife Sharpener components analysis, response function and coefficients of convergence allowed the researchers to determine that t

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454 pyrosequencing to describe microbial eukaryotic community composition, diversity and relative abundance: a test for marine haptophytes.

Next generation sequencing of ribosomal DNA is increasingly used to assess the diversity and structure of microbial communities.Here we test the ability of 454 pyrosequencing to detect the number of species present, and assess the relative abundance in terms of cell numbers and biomass of protists in the phylum Haptophyta.We used a mock community c

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Phytophthora plurivora T. Jung & T. I. Burgess and other Phytophthora species causing important diseases of ericaceous plants in the Czech Republic

Ornamental nurseries, garden centres, public gardens and urban greenery in the Czech Republic were surveyed in 2006-2009 for the presence of Phytophthora spp.and the diseases they cause on ericaceous plants.Diseased plants such as Rhododendron spp., Pieris floribunda, Vaccinium sp., and Azalea sp.showed various symptoms including leaf spot, shoot b

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