Quantitative methods for pest risk assessment combine sound statistical tools with sound ecological theory to convert scientifically relevant data into decision-relevant information. This thesis investigated a quantitative ...
Many Poaceae grasses form a symbiosis with Epichloë fungal endophytes. Initially a serious problem in agriculture due to their production of alkaloids toxic to livestock, endophyte strains were identified that were less ...
Barley leaf rust, caused by Puccinia hordei, is one of the most widely distributed and economically significant foliar disease of barley. In this study, the disease resistance of two Hordeum bulbosum introgression lines ...
Encouraging consumption of renewable energy, including biofuels, for transport is one way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In the past two decades in Vietnam remarkable economic growth has resulted in a significant ...
Since the rediscovery of Porphyrio hochstetteri (takahē), in the Murchison Mountains (Fiordland, New Zealand) in 1949, there have been continued efforts to protect the species. Takahē numbers have been increasing from a ...