VD - 22/07/2017

Coccinella transversalis is a mandibular arthropod. The study of the jaws is important to use these arthropods, as instruments of biological control, against other parasitic animals of plants and especially for the biological fight against aphids,...

VD - 25/06/2017

The plant and animal embryogenesis consists of the development of embryos from cells formed by the union of two gametes (one male and one female). However, the plant cells maintain a functionality, lost in the animal cells, that consists in the...

VD - 18/06/2017

The process of forming an embryo and the subsequent development of a complete plant from a somatic cell of a leaf is called somatic embryogenesis or asexual embryogenesis. This process occurs naturally in composite plants, cruciferous plants, grasses,...

VD - 15/04/2017

In Disclosure No. 49 of VD about the "Submerged Lands of the Mediterranean" we exposed the colonization of the Mediterranean Sea bottom by terrestrial plants during the last glacial period. These plants subsequently adapted the salinity to flood their...

VD - 1/04/2017

Classified by Carl Adolph Agardh (1817), it forms part of the group of chlorophytic and photophilous algae. It is attached to sea very deep or rocky bottoms between 3 and 40 m depth. It is formed by a hollow sphere filled with water, with internal...

VD - 25/02/2017

As for today it has been considered that there were only five senses (sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch) that inform their possessors about the circumstances of their physical environment.However, the development of concepts related to animal and...