NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL × ELYMORDEUM HYBRIDS

1958 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wray M. Bowden

× Elymordeum Lepage is a validly published name for hybrids of Elymus L. × Hordeum L.; × Hordelymus should not be used as a name for these hybrids. Eight × Elymordeum hybrids are listed in this paper: × Elymordeum dutillyanum Lepage (Elymus mollis subsp. mollis × Hordeum jubatum); × Elymordeumschaackianum hybr. nov. (Elymus hirsutus × Hordeum brachyantherum); × Elymordeumpiperi hybr. nov. (Hordeum jubatum × Elymus triticoides); × Elymordeumdakotense hybr. nov. (Hordeum jubatum × Elymus canadensis); !× Elymordeumtriploideum hybr. nov. (2n = 21) (Hordeum distichon × Elymus racemosus var. racemosus); !× Elymordeumstebbinsianum hybr. nov. (Hordeum brachyantherum × Elymus glaucus); !× Elymordeumberkeleyanum hybr. nov. (Hordeum brachyantherum × Elymus condensatus); and !× Elymordeummontanense (Scribn. in Beal) comb. nov. (Elymus virginicus × Hordeum jubatum). Most specimens of !× Elymordeum montanense are nm. montanense; two specimens with pubescent lemma backs are nm. pubescens nm. nov. The parentages of the four hybrids designated by !× have been experimentally confirmed.Most of the parental species of Elymus and Hordeum were tetraploid (2n = 28); the exception was the diploid, (2n = 14), Hordeum distichon. One artificial hybrid, !× E. triploideum, was from Russia; the other hybrids were natural or artificial hybrids from North America. Seven of the parental species of Elymus and Hordeum are native in North America; two occur in Northeastern Asia and North America, one is native in Central Asia and one parent is a cultivated barley. In natural and artificial F1 × Elymordeum hybrids, the anthers did not dehisce, the pollen was completely bad, and the spikes never set seed.The natural hybrids of !× Elymordeum montanense occur rarely and sporadically from Montana to Nova Scotia. An artificial F1 hybrid was produced in 1954–55 from the cross, Elymus virginicus L. f. virginicus × Hordeum jubatum L. var. jubatum. The artificial hybrid was identical with the natural hybrid from Lower Onslow, Nova Scotia. The hybrids and parental plants were tetraploid, 2n = 28, and there were many meiotic irregularities in the pollen mother cells.

1990 ◽  
Vol 122 (4) ◽  
pp. 647-650
Author(s):  
Laurent Lesage

AbstractChaetocnema concinna (Marsham, 1802), a European flea beetle, is reported for the first time from Canada. Preliminary collection data indicate that it may feed on the same host plants as in Europe. It has been collected to date in Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and Maine.


1972 ◽  
Vol 104 (8) ◽  
pp. 1197-1207 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. F. Morris

AbstractThe number of predators inhabiting nests of Hyphantria cunea Drury was recorded annually for 13 years in four areas in New Brunswick and two areas on the coast of Nova Scotia. The most common groups were the pentatomids and spiders, which sometimes reproduced within the nests, but the mean number per nest was low in relation to the number of H. cunea larvae in the colonies. The rate of predation on fifth-instar larvae was low. Small or timid predators appeared to prey largely on moribund larvae or small saprophagans during the principal defoliating instars of H. cunea.No relationship could be detected between the number of larvae reaching the fifth instar and the number of predators in the colony; nor could any functional or numerical response of the predators to either the initial number of larvae per colony or the population density of colonies be found. It is concluded that the influence of the nest-inhabiting predators is small and relatively stable, and may be treated as a constant in the development of models to explain the population dynamics of H. cunea.H. cunea is a pest in parts of Europe and Asia, where it has been accidentally introduced from North America. The introduction to other continents of the North American predator, Podisus maculiventiis (Say), is discussed briefly.


Author(s):  

Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Chrysomyxa arctostaphyli Dietel Fungi: Basidiomycota: Uredinales Hosts: Picea spp. and Arctostaphylos uva-ursi. Information is given on the geographical distribution in NORTH AMERICA, Canada, Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Northwest, Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon, USA, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Michigan, Montana, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming.


Author(s):  
P. F. Cannon

Abstract A description is provided for Isthmiella faullii. Information is included on the disease caused by the organism, its transmission, geographical distribution, and hosts. HOSTS: Apparently confined to Abies balsamea. DISEASE: Causes a needle blight of Abies balsamea. According to Darker (1932), it 'is the commonest and most destructive of the Hypodermataceae on Abies balsamea in eastern North America'. It is particularly damaging to seedlings and juvenile plants. In northern Ontario, from where the disease was originally identified, infection occurs during the summer, but signs of the disease do not appear until the following spring, when needles become brown and conidiomata develop, conidia being discharged in July, and shortly after this ascomata begin to form, maturing in July of the following year. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION: Reported from Canada: Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec and USA: Michigan and New Hampshire. TRANSMISSION: Through air dispersal of ascospores, which directly infect the leaves (Darker, 1932).


1985 ◽  
Vol 22 (10) ◽  
pp. 1546-1548 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Zentilli ◽  
P. H. Reynolds

The East Kemptville tin deposit in Nova Scotia, the largest known tin deposit in North America, lies in a greisen zone within the Davis Lake Pluton, generally considered to be part of the Devonian South Mountain Batholith. Our dating of micas from within the deposit suggests that the greisenization process that accompanied mineralization took place about 295 ± 5 Ma ago, that is, ca. 60 Ma after the emplacement of the batholith.Hydrothermal alteration–mineralization activity in southern Nova Scotia coincided with extensive shearing and tectonism throughout the Hercynian orogen. The East Kemptville deposit appears to be approximately coeval with similar mineralization in southwest England, the Iberian peninsula, and northwest Africa and much younger than the Devonian Acadian orogeny.


2016 ◽  
Vol 154 (5) ◽  
pp. 1001-1021 ◽  
Author(s):  
STEPHEN R. WESTROP ◽  
ED LANDING

AbstractNew and archival collections from the Chelsey Drive Group of the Avalon terrane of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada, yield late Cambrian trilobites and agnostoid arthropods with full convexity that contrast with compacted, often deformed material from shale and slate typical of Avalonian Britain. Four species of the agnostoid Lotagnostus form a stratigraphic succession in the upper Furongian (Ctenopyge tumida–Parabolina lobata zones). Two species, L. ponepunctus (Matthew, 1901) and L. germanus (Matthew, 1901) are previously named; L. salteri and L. matthewi are new. Lotagnostus trisectus (Salter, 1864), the type species of the genus, is restricted to compacted material from its type area in Malvern, England. Lotagnostus americanus (Billings, 1860) has been proposed as a globally appropriate index for the base of ‘Stage 10’ of the Cambrian. All four species from Avalonian Canada are differentiated clearly from L. americanus in its type area in Laurentian North America (i.e., from debris flow blocks in Taconian Quebec). In our view, putative occurrences of L. americanus from other Cambrian continents record very different species. Lotagnostus americanus cannot be recognized worldwide, and other taxa should be sought to define the base of Stage 10, such as the conodont Eoconodontus notchhpeakensis.


Author(s):  
D. W. Minter

Abstract A description is provided for Mycosphaerella iridis, a terrestrial fungus, parasitic and causing brownish spots on the distal parts of older leaves. Some information on its habitats, economic impacts, dispersal and transmission and conservation status is given, along with details of its geographical distribution (Africa (Zambia, Zimbabwe), North America (Canada (British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Saskachewan, Quebec), USA (California, Colorado, Idaho, Indiana, New jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Utah, Wyoming), South America (Venezuela), Asia (Armenia, China, Cyprus, Georgia, India (Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir), Iran, Kazakhstan (Alma-Atinskaya oblast, Chimkentskaya oblast), Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, Turkmenistan), Australasia (New Zealand), Caribbean (St. Vincent), Europe (Austria, Belgium, former Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia (Leningradskaya oblast, Novgorodskaya oblast, Pskovskaya oblast, Yaroslavskaya oblast), Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, UK))) and hosts.


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Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Aphanomyces cochlioides Drechsler. Peronosporea: Saprolegniales: Leptolegniaceae. Hosts: spinach (Spinacia oleracea), sugar beet (Beta vulgaris), and other members of the Chenopodiaceae and Amaranthaceae. Information is given on the geographical distribution in Africa (Egypt), Asia (Japan, Hokkaido, Turkey), Europe (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Moldova, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, UK), North America (Canada, Alberta, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, USA, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming), Oceania (Australia, Queensland), and South America (Chile).


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