Genetic diversity of red clover varieties listed in Germany concerning the resistance to Southern Anthracnose

Rotklee ist als essentielles Fruchtfolgeglied speziell im ökologischen Landbau unentbehrlich. Resistente Sorten wären im Falle einer Ausbreitung der Pilzkrankheit Anthracnose von zentraler Bedeutung

Environmental management as situated practice

We propose an analysis of environmental management (EM) as work and as practical activity. This approach enables empirical studies of the diverse ways in which professionals, scientists, NGO staffers, and activists achieve the partial manageability of specific “environments”. In this introduction, we sketch the debates in Human Geography, Management Studies, Science and Technology Studies to which this special issue contributes. We identify the limits of understanding EM though the framework of ecological modernization, and show how political ecology and work- place studies provide important departures towards a more critical approach. Developing these further, into a cosmopolitical direction, we propose studying EM as sets of socially and materially situated practices. This enables a shift away from established approaches which treat EM either as a toolbox whose efficiency has to be assessed, or as simply the implementation of dominant projects and the materialisation of hegemonic discourse. Such a shift renders EM as always messy practices of engagement, critique and improvisation. We conclude that studying the distributed and situated managing agencies, actors and their practices allows to imagine new forms of critical interventions

Successful interdisciplinary treatment of a rare cause of acute myocardial ischaemia from intermittent tumour-associated obstruction of the left main coronary artery: a case report

Background A papillary fibroelastoma of the aortic valve has been reported as a rare cause of myocardial ischaemia. An advanced combined interventional and surgical approach leading to sufficient therapy for the patient is presented in this case report. Case summary A 56-year-old female patient presented in an emergency room of a hospital with an acute coronary syndrome. Over 1.5 years, recurrent stable angina had been known in the patient and significant coronary artery disease has already been ruled out in a previous coronary angiogram. The patient was immediately transferred to the catheter laboratory due to cardiogenic shock where a drug-eluting stent was implanted to, firstly, recanalize the left main coronary artery (LMCA) and, secondly, to protect the left main ostium from obstruction by an echocardiographic-proven mass. During subsequent deterioration of haemodynamics caused by decreasing left ventricular function and acute severe mitral insufficiency, firstly an intra-aortic balloon pump and secondly a veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation was established through the femoral vessels. The patient was transferred to our cardiac surgery unit and was successfully operated utilizing a valve-sparing technique by extracting the tumour mass from the left coronary cusp and extracting the stent carefully from the LMCA. Histology revealed a papillary fibroelastoma. Conclusion A papillary fibroelastoma of the aortic valve with intermittent obstruction of the coronary arteries requires surgical therapy. Interventional recanalization and extracorporeal support might be useful strategies to ensure the patient's safety as a bridge to surgery

Verbesserung der Resistenz von Rotklee gegen Colletotrichum trifolii durch rekurrente Selektion

Southern Anthracnose, a fungal disease of red clover (Trifolium pratense L.) caused by Colletotrichum trifolii, seems to gain more importance in agriculture in Germany. This investigation should examine whether there is a simple possibility to increase the resistance in cultivars or breeding material through recurrent selection. Six red clover cultivars listed in Germany were used for this study. The survival rate after one and two cycles of recurrent selection was increased by 17 and 26 percentage points compared to the parental population. The advance in resistance generally was higher in populations with lower original resistance

Additamentum ad dijudicandam pleurarum in respirando inter se rationem : dissertatio inauguralis

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Resistenz der in Deutschland zugelassenen Rotkleesorten gegen den Erreger des Südlichen Stängelbrenners (Colletotrichum trifolii)

Die Pilzkrankheit Anthracnose an Rotklee scheint in Deutschland an Bedeutung zu gewinnen. Zur Identifizierung widerstandsfähiger Rotkleesorten wurde ein Resistenztest im Gewächshaus durchgeführt. Auch andere Futterleguminosen wurden erstmals in diesen Test integriert. Die getesteten Rotkleesorten differenzieren deutlich hinsichtlich ihrer Anfälligkeit. Die Überlebensrate der Pflanzen schwankte zwischen 29 und 81 %. Unter den alternativen Futterpflanzenarten zeigten sich die getesteten Sorten von Weißklee, Hornklee und Esparsette als resistent, wohingegen die geprüfte Gelbkleesorte anfällig war. Bei Luzerne und Inkarnatklee traten Sortenunterschiede auf. Diese Ergebnisse wurden im Rahmen des vom BÖLN finanzierten Forschungsvorhabens FKZ 06OE161 ermittelt

Steigerung der Anthracnoseresistenz von Rotklee durch rekurrente Selektion

Einleitung und Problemstellung Anthracnose (Colletotrichum trifolii) hat in den letzten Jahren als Krankheit an Rotklee an Bedeutung gewonnen. Diese Pilzkrankheit kann zu einem erheblichen Verlust von Rotkleepflanzen in Rein- und Mischbeständen mit Gräsern führen. Falls es zu einem vermehrten Auftreten dieser Krankheit auf landwirtschaftlich genutzten Flächen kommt, wäre der Einsatz von Sorten mit einer hohen Resistenz ein vielversprechender Ansatz, um die Grundfutterversorgung, aber auch die Stickstoffversorgung v.a. ökologisch wirtschaftender, viehloser Betriebe abzusichern. Durch die Züchtung von resistenten Sorten spielt die Krankheit bei Rotklee in den USA nur noch eine untergeordnete Rolle. In der vorliegenden Untersuchung sollte geprüft werden, ob die Methode der rekurrenten Selektion für eine Anhebung des Resistenzniveaus von Rotkleepopulationen genutzt werden kann

On the origin of ultrametricity

In this paper we show that in systems where the probability distribution of the the overlap is non trivial in the infinity volume limit, the property of ultrametricity can be proved in general starting from two very simple and natural assumptions: each replica is equivalent to the others (replica equivalence or stochastic stability) and all the mutual information about a pair of equilibrium configurations is encoded in their mutual distance or overlap (separability or overlap equivalence).Comment: 13 pages, 1 figur

Ultrametricity in 3D Edwards-Anderson spin glasses

We perform an accurate test of Ultrametricity in the aging dynamics of the three dimensional Edwards-Anderson spin glass. Our method consists in considering the evolution in parallel of two identical systems constrained to have fixed overlap. This turns out to be a particularly efficient way to study the geometrical relations between configurations at distant large times. Our findings strongly hint towards dynamical ultrametricity in spin glasses, while this is absent in simpler aging systems with domain growth dynamics. A recently developed theory of linear response in glassy systems allows to infer that dynamical ultrametricity implies the same property at the level of equilibrium states.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure