PPQ

 

Plant Protection Quarterly

 
Volume 24 Issue 1, 2009

 

Contents

 

Review

 

The biology of Australian weeds. 52. Malva parviflora L.

Pippa J. Michael, Kathryn J. Steadman and Julie A. Plummer.  (No abstract)

2

Research reports

 

Germination of Hymenachne amplexicaulis and H. acutigluma under contrasting light, temperature and nitrate regimes.

Shane D. Campbell, Elizabeth A. Carter and Melissa J. Setter.  Abstract

10

Fruit carrying characteristics of travellers into a quarantine zone in New South Wales in 1999/2000.

B.C. Dominiak and N. Coombes.  Abstract

14

Ten year post-fire response of a native ecosystem in the presence of high or low densities of the invasive weed, Asparagus asparagoides.

Peter J. Turner and John G. Virtue.  Abstract

20

Life-history, host preference and establishment status of Melittia oedipus (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae), a biological control agent for Coccinia grandis (Cucurbitaceae) in the Mariana Islands.

G.V.P. Reddy, Z.T. Cruz and R. Muniappan.  Abstract

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Using plant development to determine optimum times for spraytopping, and assessing effect of grazing and double/repeat herbicide applications on regeneration of vulpia.

P.M. Dowling, G.D. Millar, B. Milne and P. Newell.  Abstract

32

Weed Management Society of South Australia

39

Book review

40