Modern biological control practitioners must increasingly demonstrate a level of rigor that
can only be achieved through use of effective methodological tools such as modeling …

Practitioners of classical biological control of invasive weeds are confronted with a dual
expectation: to achieve successful control of plant invaders and to avoid damage to …

Open-field host-specificity testing assesses the host-range of a biological control agent in a
setting that permits the agent to use its full complement of host-seeking behaviors. This form …

The safe practice of biological control relies, in part, on an accurate evaluation of a potential
agent's host-specificity via testing through a “filter of safety”. The results of laboratory tests …

In weed biological control programs, the safety assessment of an agent currently relies on
no‐choice and choice feeding, development, and oviposition cage tests. However, confined …

According to sympatric speciation theory, adaptation to different host plants is expected to
pleiotropically lead to assortative mating, an important factor in the reduction of gene flow …

Son yıllarda “oksidatif stres” ve oksidatif stresin insan sağlığı üzerindeki olumsuz etkileri
üzerine yapılan çalışmalar ilgi odağı haline gelmiştir (Tripathi ve ark., 2007). Organizmaların …

Simple Summary Oxeye daisy, a Eurasian member of the daisy family, has become invasive
in several parts of the world, including North America and Australia. We investigated …

Bu çalışmanın amacı, Türkiye'de tıbbi amaçlı kullanılan bazı bitkilerin antioksidan etkilerinin
taranmasıdır. Ekzojen kaynaklı çeşitli kimyasal maddelere maruziyet sırasında ve hücresel …

ABSTRACT Scotch broom, Cytisus scoparius (Fabaceae), is a shrub native to Europe that is
invasive in the USA, New Zealand and Australia. The psyllid Arytainilla spartiophila has …