scholarly journals First anatomically characterized wood from the Tertiary of Moravia: Spiroplatanoxylon from the area of Austerlitz (Southern Moravia, Czech Republic)

2011 ◽  
Vol 59 (6) ◽  
pp. 367-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Továrková ◽  
Vladimír Gryc ◽  
Jakub Sakala
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Growth Ring ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Alluvial Sediments ◽  
Axial Parenchyma ◽  
Southern Moravia ◽  
Perforation Plates ◽  
Helical Thickenings ◽  
Very High ◽  
Diffuse Porous

A new silicified angiosperm wood from the alluvial sediments in Vážany nad Litavou (SW of Slavkov/Austerlitz near Brno, Vyškov district) is described. The wood is diffuse-porous with indistinct growth ring boundaries. Vessels are exclusively solitary with helical thickenings and scalariform perforation plates. Rays are very high and up to 18 cells wide, homocellular to slightly heterocellular. Crystals are present in axial parenchyma mostly in chambered cells, rarely in idioblasts. The fossil is attributed to Spiroplatanoxylon mueller-stollii Süss. Other species of Spiroplatanoxylon are also discussed. Wood anatomical descriptions from the eastern part of the Czech Republic published so far deal either with the Silesian Tertiary or describe only partially lignified probably Quaternary material; therefore the present paper can be considered as the first detailed anatomical description of the Tertiary wood from Moravia.

Wood Anatomy of Lithraea Ternifolia (Gill.) Barkley ' Rom. (Anacardiaceae)

IAWA Journal ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nora Martijena
Keyword(s):  
Wood Anatomy ◽  
Growth Ring ◽  
Wood Structure ◽  
Axial Parenchyma ◽  
Small Vessels ◽  
Perforation Plates ◽  
Diffuse Porous

A description of the wood structure of Lithraea ternifolia (Gill.) Barkley ' Rom. (Anacardiaceae) is given. It is diffuse-porous, with pores solitary, in multiples, clusters and in chains, and small vessels with simple perforation plates. The rays are uni- and multiseriate, heterogeneous. It has paratracheal axial parenchyma and libriform fibres. Disjunctive cells and crystalliferous strands are present. The hydraulic tissue seems weil adapted to prolonged dry periods. One growth ring is generally formed each year. Moreover, other types of growth layers are delineated: intra-annual, lens-, half-Iens-, and arcshaped.

scholarly journals Spiders of the Vine Plants in Southern Moravia

2015 ◽  
Vol 63 (5) ◽  
pp. 1471-1476
Author(s):  
Lucie Havlová ◽  
Vladimír Hula ◽  
Jana Niedobová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Soil Management ◽  
Common Species ◽  
Red List ◽  
The Other ◽  
Important Species ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Spider Species ◽  
Southern Moravia ◽  
Different Parts

Araneofauna of vineyards is relatively known in Central Europe but we have a lack of knowledge about araneofauna which occur directly on the vine plants. Our investigation was focused on spiders which live on vine plants, especially on the vine plants trunks. We investigated spiders in six vineyards in southern Moravia (Šatov, Mikulov, Popice, Morkůvky, Nosislav and Blučina). Vineyards were under different soil management, traps were placed on different parts of particular locality (terraced and plain) and all localities were under integrated pest management. We employed two types of cardboard traps for spider collecting during whole vegetation season. Altogether, we collected 21 spider species which belong to seven families. The most important species was Marpissa nivoyi (Lucas, 1836), which is mentioned in the Red List as vulnerable (VU) and Sibianor tantulus (Simon, 1868) which had unknown distribution in the Czech Republic. The other very interesting result is that the most common species is myrmecomorph Synageles venator (Lucas, 1836), which is scarcely recorded in such huge numbers as we documented in our study.

scholarly journals The competitiveness of Czech agrarian trade within the context of the global crisis

2013 ◽  
Vol 59 (No. 4) ◽  
pp. 183-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Smutka ◽  
J. Burianová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
World Trade ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Agricultural Trade ◽  
High Rate ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The World ◽  
Territorial Structure ◽  
Merchandise Trade ◽  
Very High

World trade underwent a significant shock within the recent years, which caused a decline in the world economy primarily in the year 2009. Within the following years (2010 and 2011), the high rate of growth from the years preceding the crisis could not be restored. The crisis had an impact on all segments of the merchandise trade, whereby the trade in agricultural and food products was affected the least by the crisis. In the case of the Czech Republic, the crisis of the global and national economy was reflected in the case of agricultural trade primarily by the way of a decline in the rate of the growth of export, which was very high in the period prior to the crisis. As far as the territorial structure and commodity structure of agricultural trade is concerned, their development in the years 2008–2011 was not affected in any largely significant manner. In relation to the main objective of this article, which was to identify the effects of the crisis on the competitiveness of Czech agricultural trade, it may be stated that the crisis itself did not worsen the competitiveness of agricultural trade in any significant manner.  

scholarly journals Development of high baking quality winter wheat Annie

2014 ◽  
Vol 50 (No. 4) ◽  
pp. 293-295
Author(s):  
P. Horčička ◽  
O. Veškrna ◽  
T. Sedláček ◽  
J. Matyk ◽  
J. Chrpová ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Winter Wheat ◽  
Grain Quality ◽  
Early Winter ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Quality Class ◽  
Baking Quality ◽  
Breeding Station ◽  
Check Variety ◽  
Very High

Annie is a medium-early winter wheat developed at the Plant Breeding Station, Stupice, SELGEN, a.s., Czech Republic and registered in the Czech Republic in 2014. In the Official Variety Trials this variety showed very high baking quality class E combined with higher grain yield than in the check variety Akteur with similar grain quality. It carries Pch1 gene conferring resistance to eyespot and possesses combined resistance to most diseases together with excellent frost resistance.

scholarly journals Fabian two-row winter barley

2013 ◽  
Vol 49 (No. 4) ◽  
pp. 175-177
Author(s):  
Z. Nesvadba ◽  
J. Špunar ◽  
M. Kadlíková
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Powdery Mildew ◽  
Plant Height ◽  
Cold Hardiness ◽  
Medium Density ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Variety Trials ◽  
Growing Conditions ◽  
Moderate Resistance ◽  
Very High

Fabian is a medium-late two-row feedin barley of winter habit developed at Agrotest Fyto, Ltd., Kroměříž, Czech Republic (breeders’ rights holder) and registered in the Czech Republic in 2011. In the Official Variety Trials it showed high grain yields under intensive growing conditions (104.5%) and medium yields under low input conditions (101.1%). Fabian has the highest cold hardiness of the registered two-row winter barleys and regenerates very well in the spring. Its resistance to powdery mildew is very high (score 8.2 on a 1–9 scale). It has medium plant height, moderate resistance to lodging and large yellow kernel. The spike is long and of medium density.

Cenomanian angiosperm wood from the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin, Czech Republic

IAWA Journal ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimír Gryc ◽  
Hanuš Vavrčík ◽  
Jakub Sakala
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Bohemian Cretaceous Basin ◽  
Perforation Plates ◽  
Diffuse Porous

The first permineralized angiosperm wood from the Cenomanian of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin (Czech Republic) is described. The wood is diffuse porous, with vessels solitary and in radial multiples of 2–5, perforation plates are exclusively simple, and tyloses abundant. Rays are usually 4–7-seriate and heterocellular, narrower rays are rare. The fossil is designated as Paraphyllanthoxylon aff. utahense Thayn, Tidwell et Stokes. Other occurrences of Paraphyllanthoxylon are reviewed and the equivocal botanical affinity of the taxon is discussed.

OLIGOCENE ANGIOSPERM WOODS FROM NORTHWESTERN BOHEMIA, CZECH REPUBLIC

IAWA Journal ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakub Sakala ◽  
Catherine Privé-Gill
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Fossil Wood ◽  
Specific Level ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Holotype Specimen ◽  
Perforation Plates

Two species of fossil angiosperm wood are described from the Oligocene of northwestern Bohemia in the Czech Republic. One specimen from Kadan–Zadní vrch Hill is identified as Cercidiphylloxylon kadanense Prakash et al. Because of its superior preservation, the specimen is designated as an epitype to the original holotype specimen of the species and genus. Cercidiphylloxylon kadanense is known only from the locality of Kadan–Zadní vrch Hill, and it represents the oldest fossil wood of true Cercidiphyllum Sieb. & Zucc. Three other wood specimens from Zichov are attributed to Liquidambaroxylon speciosum Felix. Modern wood of some species of Cercidiphyllum Sieb. & Zucc., Liquidambar L., Altingia Noronha, Corylopsis Sieb. & Zucc., Distylium Sieb. & Zucc., and Hamamelis L. was examined to determine how to distinguish the wood of Cercidiphyllum (Cercidiphyllaceae) from similar woods of Hamamelidaceae. The number of bars in the scalariform perforation plates of the vessels is about 40 in Cercidiphyllum, and about 20 in the Hamamelidaceae. Rays are variable, even at intra-specific level, and are not suitable for distinguishing these woods. These criteria were found to be useful in evaluating affinities of the fossil woods.

scholarly journals Panascleroticoxylon crystallosa gen. et sp. nov.: a new Miocene malpighialean tree from Panama

IAWA Journal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oris Rodriguez-Reyes ◽  
Peter Gasson ◽  
Carolyn Thornton ◽  
Howard J. Falcon-Lang ◽  
Nathan A. Jud
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
Fossil Wood ◽  
Axial Parenchyma ◽  
Unusual Combination ◽  
Ray Parenchyma ◽  
Perforation Plates ◽  
Diffuse Porous

ABSTRACTWe report fossil wood specimens from two Miocene sites in Panama, Central America: Hodges Hill (Cucaracha Formation; Burdigalian, c. 19 Ma) and Lago Alajuela (Alajuela Formation; Tortonian, c. 10 Ma), where material is preserved as calcic and silicic permineralizations, respectively. The fossils show an unusual combination of features: diffuse porous vessel arrangement, simple perforation plates, alternate intervessel pitting, vessel–ray parenchyma pits either with much reduced borders or similar to the intervessel pits, abundant sclerotic tyloses, rays markedly heterocellular with long uniseriate tails, and rare to absent axial parenchyma. This combination of features allows assignment of the fossils to Malpighiales, and we note similarities with four predominantly tropical families: Salicaceae, Achariaceae, and especially, Phyllanthaceae, and Euphorbiaceae. These findings improve our knowledge of Miocene neotropical diversity and highlight the importance of Malpighiales in the forests of Panama prior to the collision of the Americas.

Synanthropic vegetation of the Eragrostion cilianensi-minoris alliance in the Czech Republic

Biologia ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 66 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Radomír Němec ◽  
Zdeňka Lososová ◽  
Pavel Dřevojan ◽  
Kristýna Žáková
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Correspondence Analysis ◽  
Detrended Correspondence Analysis ◽  
Vegetation Types ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Synanthropic Vegetation ◽  
Arable Fields ◽  
Twinspan Classification ◽  
Southern Moravia

AbstractA synthesis of the alliance Eragrostion cilianensi-minoris in the Czech Republic is presented on the basis of 82 relevés including new unpublished data. A TWINSPAN classification and detrended correspondence analysis were used to identify the main vegetation types included in the alliance Eragrostion cilianensi-minoris. A syntaxonomic revision of the data set revealed five associations of the alliance: Digitario sanguinalis-Eragrostietum minoris, Portulacetum oleraceae, Eragrostio poaeoidis-Panicetum capillaris, Cynodontetum dactyli, and Hibisco trioni-Eragrostietum poaeoidis. The latter was recently found in several arable fields in Southern Moravia (Czech Republic) and was newly characterized.

scholarly journals Male-male amplexus between two amphibian families

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (31.1) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Zdeněk Mačát ◽  
Daniel Jablonski
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Breeding Season ◽  
Mating Pattern ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Hyla Arborea ◽  
Bombina Bombina ◽  
Southern Moravia

The amplexus between two different anuran males is observed very rarely. Therefore, here we provide the first documented observation of a long-lasting male-male amplexus between Bombina bombina (Bombinatoridae) and Hyla arborea (Hylidae) together with an overview of the data published in literature. The observed mating pattern is reported from Southern Moravia, the Czech Republic. The possible reasons for its occurrence during the mass breeding season are discussed.

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