festuca picoeuropeana/atrophy

Ligularia virgaurea is a noxious weed widely distributed in the alpine grassland of east Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of China. This paper studied the allelopathy of its aqueous extract on the pasture plants Festuca sinensis, Bromus magnus, Elymus nutans, Poa annua, and F. ovina in the region. The mean

Tunicaminyluracil antibiotics, similar to the corynetoxins produced by Rathayibacter toxicus in Australia and South Africa, were found in old nematode seed-galls from Festuca nigrescens from New Jersey (USA) and New Zealand (NZ). The toxin profiles from the NZ and USA galls were similar to each

Horizontal gene transfer involves the non-sexual interspecific transmission of genetic material. Even if they are initially functional, horizontally transferred genes are expected to deteriorate into non-expressed pseudogenes, unless they become adaptively relevant in the recipient organism.