The purpose of this study is to highlight on the ability of the alga Ulva fasciata to accumulate some organic pollutants (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons :PAHS, polychlorinated biphenyls: PCBs). The samples were collected from three sites at the Syr
ian coast during 2011.
The result of this study revealed the ability of alga to accumulate significantly the PAHs and their concentrations ranged from 30.52 to 72.7 ng/g dw, While the PCBs concentrations were less, it ranged between 6.00 and 24.01 ng/g dw.
The highest concentration of PAHs was observed at the Dirasat site, while the highest concentration of the PCBs found at the Cornish of Jablah. The logarithm bioconcentration factors (log BCF) of the aromatic compounds with three aromatic rings were close to the logarithm octanol/water partitioning coefficients (log Kow ), unlike the compounds with higher rings, where log BCF were obviously less than corresponding log Kow.
The log BCF values of PCBs increased with increasing chlorine atoms (2 - 6 atoms) , while no increasing was observed for components that contain 7 to 8 chlorine atoms
At this study, two species of genus Equisetum L. have been recorded, that they were: Equisetum telmateia L. and Equisetum ramosissimum Desf.
E. ramosissimum Desf. was recorded for the first time in Lattakia.
The morphological features were used to
separate two species: ( number of the scaly leaves in the node area, shape of the sheath, and number of its teeth, number of the grooves at the stem, length of the strobilus and its color, length of the lateral branches).
This study showed that: the spores had three coats, the exosporium rounded by the
spore like bars with a wide terminal that called: elaters.
Also showed obvious difference in measurements the strobilus and the shapes
of sterile and fertile stem.
The study included 144 Free – living fish from the Lake of 16 Tishreen Dam, collected randomly during the period from 12/2011 until 11/2012, on monthly basis to detect the infection with Epistylis sp. and determine its distribution rate.
Fish sam
ples were: Cyprinus carpio L., Varicorhinus damascinus, Garra rufus, Tilapia zilli, and Liza abu. Tilapia zilli was the most prevalent in the lake of 16 Tishreen Dam.
The study revealed fish infection with Epistylis sp. on free – living fish in the Lake, with a total infection rate 22.22 % , mainly on Tilapia zillii (29.70 %) and then on mullet (2%);No infection with Epistylis sp. Was recorded on the other fish species. The infection with this ecto Epistylis sp. was recorded for the first time in Syria in our study.
The infection with Epistylis sp. was located on the skin, fins and gills. The highest infection rate was on the fins ( 42.34 %) , followed by skin (37.46 %) , and then by gills (1.87 %) .
The infection with Epistylis sp. had the highest rate in summer ; i.e. during high temperature , low concentration of dissolved oxygen , and slightly high value of BOD.
The study showed that, the water of 16 Tishreen Dam is relatively clean.
204 samples were collected from various body samples
during the year 2016. These 204 samples distributed as
follows: 133 from urine , 37 swabs of wounds and burns,
10 swabs from the ear and pharynx, 12 from feces, 8
from CSF, 4 from blood. This s
tudy distinctly showed that
gram negative bacilli were the most isolates 136 (67%)
while 68 isolates (33%) were gram positive bacteria .
E. coli dominated (39.68%) of the total gram negative
bacilli.
This study distinctly showed an increase in the ratio of
E. coli resistance to one or more types of antibiotics , we
found that E. coli resistance to all antibiotics except
specific and expensive antibiotics, and we found that its
complete resistance to the second ,third and fourth
generation of cephalosporins , resistance to specific and
antibiotics such as Imipenem.
This study investigated the effect of the water extract of two types
of algae which spread in Syrian marine: Colpomenia sinuosa
(Brown) and Ulva fasciata (green) and a combination of them in
the cultivation on tomato and tobacco seeds with concent
rations of
(1: 2 1: 4 1: 6 1: 8 1:10 1: 20) By adding 5ml of each
concentration, and comparing it with the control sample with only
distilled water added, the comparison was made in terms of: The
germination, stem length, root length, root branch.
The research was conducted to study an efficacy of the fungus
Trichoderma harzianumin controlling the gray mold disease on
tomato that causing by the fungus Botrytis cinerea. A local isolate
of the fungus T. harzianum was studied under laboratory conditions
using two methods: antagonism and the spore suspension.
A Study was carried out to evaluate the ability of the methanolic, hydro and oily
extractions of anise seeds (Pimpinella anisum L.) to inhibit the growth of the pathogenic
fungi Fusarium oxysporum and Aspergillus niger. The results showed a good in
hibition
ability of the alcoholic and hydro extractions on the growth of the studied fungi. The
inhibition ability differed due to the used concentrations. When the methanolic extraction
was used by concentrations (2, 4, and 6) mlg/ ml at the seventh day, the inhibition ability
was (42.5, 50.6 and 64.4)% of the fungus F. oxysporum, respectively. And was (23.6, 42.7
and 55.1)% of the fungus A. niger, respectively. Whereas when the hydro extraction was
used by the same concentrations, the inhibition ability was (59.2, 65.3 and 70)%
respectively for the fungus F. oxysporum, and (46.1, 58 and 61)% for the fungus A. niger,
respectively. The oily extraction showed high inhibition ability, where the inhibition rate
was 100% when the extraction was used by the two concentrations 50 and 75 μl for both
two studied fungi.
Most of the fish stocks in the world are threatened by overfishing
and/or degraded environmental conditions, stock assessment of
marine resources is therefore worldwide recognized as a major
matter. This study aims at highlighting the analytical models used
in the stocks assessment, which depend on the cohort analysis using
information on the length based method which used when only
length composition data for fishery.
The aim of the study was mainly to investigate the structure
of the macrobenthic invertebrate communities in Syrian deep
seawater. Few data are available for habitats and benthic fauna in
thissensitive environment, which threaten by fishing practices,
pollutants and climate change.
The Bio-mass was isolated from the medium of the water olive
soaking , and was developed on two medium olive mill wastewater
OMW.
