Advanced screening methods for assessing motility and hatching in plant-parasitic nematodes.

Background: Plant-parasitic nematodes are economically important pests responsible for substantial losses in agriculture. Researchers focusing on plant-parasitic nematodes, especially on finding new ways of their control, often need to assess basic parameters such as their motility, viability, and reproduction. Traditionally, these assays involve visually counting juveniles and eggs under a dissecting microscope, making this investigation time-consuming and laborious.

First report of grapevine Flavescence dorée phytoplasma in the Czech Republic.

Viticulture is a traditional branch of agriculture in the Czech Republic. Grapevines (Vitis vinifera L.) are cultivated on more than 18,000 hectares in the wine-growing regions of Bohemia and South Moravia.

First record of functional underground traps in a pitcher plant: (Nepenthaceae), a new species from North Kalimantan, Borneo.

, a new species from North Kalimantan, Indonesia, is described and illustrated. The species belongs to the group (sensu Cheek and Jebb 1999) but exhibits some characters that are unique within the group or even within the genus. Above all, it produces underground, achlorophyllous shoots with well-developed, ventricose lower pitchers that form in soil cavities or directly in the soil.

Description of Pristina armata n. sp. (Clitellata: Naididae: Pristininae) from a carnivorous plant (Nepenthes sp.) in Borneo, Indonesia.

A new clitellate species of Pristininae (Naididae), Pristina armata n. sp., found in the pitcher of the carnivorous plant Nepenthes sp.