[Experience with surgical treatment of newborns with necrotizing enterocolitis].

At the period from 1984 through 2010 there were 306 patients with necrotizing enterocolitis aged from 1 to 13 days. Conservative therapy in 214 (70%) cases resulted in favorable outcome of the disease. Operative treatment was necessary in 92 (30%) neonates.

[Self-fertility problems in birdsfoot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus L.)].

The problems of Lotus corniculatus self-fertility are analyzed. The self-compatibility of hereditivity character, the efficacy of different methods of self-pollination (autogamy, geitonogamy within one plant and among plants of one clone), and usage of the mixture of self-compatible and self-incompatible pollen were studied.

[Analysis of quantitative traits connected with seed weight and flowering terms in birdsfoot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus L.) plants].

The nature of inheritance of characters connected with the seed size (seed mass) and quality of the shoots (germination energy, seed viability, general shoot length, shoot mass, dry weight of shoots) in Lotus corniculatus L. was analyzed. The investigations were carried out on plants of three varieties: the wild form from the Krasnodar Region and local forms MF1 and MF3.