The Future of Cydia pomonella Granulovirus in Biological Control of Codling Moth

Resistance of codling moth against Cydia pomonella granulovirus (CpGV) products has alarmed growers, extension services, the CpGV producers and the scientific community. During the last two years many activities were initiated in Germany and in Europe to understand this phenomenon and to overcome this problem. Meanwhile, first important results about the distribution, mode of inheritance and the efficacy of novel CpGV isolates overcoming CpGV resistance became available. This contribution will provide an overview about the different developments and the progress made towards an improvement of CpGV application in the future

What do we (need to) know about low-susceptibility of codling moth against Cydia pomonella granulovirus (CpGV)!

In 2005, the first codling moth (CM) populations with a reduced susceptibility to Cydia pomonella granulovi-rus (CpGV) products have been observed. This phenomenon might be an indicator of an emerging resis-tance of CM to CpGV. This paper summarizes some aspects of CM CpGV interaction and discusses poten-tial mechanisms in the host virus interaction, which could contribute to the observed low susceptibility. In order to develop and implement successful resistance management strategies, much more knowledge about the plasticity of CM CpGV interaction and the diversity of CM populations is essential

AFLPs: genetic markers for paternity studies in newts (Triturus vulgaris)

DNA-based genetic markers can reveal paternity whenever the direct assignment of fathers to offspring is precluded by multiple matings and internal fertilisation. Microsatellites are the current marker of choice in many behavioural studies, and have revealed important insights into genetic mating systems of European amphibians. However, the number of amphibian species for which the time-consuming designing of locus-specific microsatellite primers was successful is still limited, and the cross-utilisation of existing markers to closely related taxa seems to have a particularly low success rate. Allozymes can infer parentage without a species-specific protocol, but, due to their low degree of polymorphism, in mate choice experiments require the a priori screening of individuals. Dominant markers such as RAPDs successfully identified closely-related amphibian species and their hybrids, but might be less suited to distinguish between closely related individuals with a putatively high frequency of shared bands

What do we (need to) know about low-susceptibility of codling moth against Cydia pomonella granulovirus (CpGV)!

In 2005, the first codling moth (CM) populations with a reduced susceptibility to Cydia pomonella granulovirus (CpGV) products have been observed. This phenomenon might be an indicator of an emerging resistance of CM to CpGV. This paper summarizes some aspects of CM CpGV interaction and discusses potential mechanisms in the host virus interaction, which could contribute to the observed low susceptibility. In order to develop and implement successful resistance management strategies, much more knowledge about the plasticity of CM CpGV interaction and the diversity of CM populations is essential

Karl Barths Zwinglivorlesung 1922/23

Karl Barth’s Göttingen lecture on Zwingli from 1922/23 is a must-read. It is not only an excellent – though fragmentary – introduction to Zwingli – and Luther as well, especially concerning the debate on the Eucharist, but it also reveals much of Barth’s fundamental understanding of theology: as humans we do not own the truth, we can only search for it. As Barth said much later in his Bonn lecture on the Heidelberg Catechism of 1948: "We do not possess the Gospel of Jesus Christ as a dead good. We must beware of a capitalistic understanding of Christianity.

Karl Barth: Predigten 1911, hg. von Eberhard Busch und Beate Busch-Blum, 2015

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Urs Hafner, Kult, Macht und Glaube: Eine kleine Geschichte des Zürcher Grossmünsters, 2007

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Fritz Blanke – Lehrer und Forscher: Vortrag an der Mitgliederversammlung des Zwinglivereins 2012

In this address to the Zwingli Society in Zurich, Fritz Blanke (1900–1967) is remembered as a teacher and scholar, who educated several generations of Reformed theologians and historians, and set new standards for research as editor and commentator of Johann Georg Hamann and Huldrych Zwingli. Blanke made text come to life and reveal its relevance with utmost care and high erudition. It was essential to him that the text was elucidated whilst his personal ideas remained in the background. For this reason, his commentaries will remain indispensable