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Plant Protection Department College of Food and Agriculture Sciences King Saud University P Plant Protection Department College of Food and Agriculture Sciences King Saud University P. O. Box 2460, Riyadh 11451 Saudi Arabia Tel: +966 1 467 8422 Fax: +966 1 467 8423 E.mail: [email protected] قائمة بعدد البحاث العلمية التي تم نشرها بدأ نشر البحاث بالقسم بعد تأسيسه عام 1965 بست سنوات بعد مرحلة التأسيس وتكوين الكوادر التعليمية والبحثية وذلك عام 1972. تواصل نشر البحاث حتى بلغت مايزيد على 70 بحثا خلل العام 2013. بلغ إجمالي .البحاث المنشورة للقسم منذ تأسيسه 549 بحثا 2013 1. Abdel-Dayem M.S. and Kippenhan M.G. (2013). A New Record of Cylindera (ifasina) rectangularis (Klug) (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae) for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 67(1):19-21. 2. Abdel-Halim M. Ismail , Ayman A. Owayss , Karem M. Mohanny and Rasha A. Salem (2013). Evaluation of pollen collected by honey bee, Apis mellifera L. colonies at Fayoum Governorate, Egypt. Part 1: Botanical origin. Journal of the Saudi Society of Agricultural Sciences, 12: 129-135. 3. Abera Belay, W.K. Solomon, Geremew Bultossa, Nuru Adgaba, Samuel Melaku (2013) Physicochemical properties of the Harenna forest honey, Bale, Ethiopia. Food Chemistry. 141 3386–3392 4. Abou-Shaara H., Al-Ghamdi A. and Mohamed A. (2013). A Suitability Map for Keeping Honey Bees under Harsh Environmental Conditions Using Geographical Information System. World Applied Sciences Journal, 22(8): 1099-1105. 5. Abou-Shaara H., Al-Ghamdi A. and Mohamed, (2013). Elemental analysis of eggs for two honey bee races. Iranian Journal of Entomology, 3: 14-17. 6. Al Dhafer, H. Y. Aldryhim, And A. Elgharbawy. (2013). Aspects of the Life History of Semitocossus johannes (Staudinger) (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) Feeding on the Milkweed Calotropis procera (Aiton) W.T., Aiton in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 86(2):133-144. (IF: 0.551) 7. AL-Ghamdi, A. A., Nuru, A., Khanbash., M.S., Smith, D.R., (2013). Geographical distribution and population variation of Apis mellifera jemenitica (Ruttner). Journal of Apicultural Research, 52(3):124-133 (IF: 1.926) 8. Al-Ghamdi, A., Nuru, A, (2013). Beekeeping in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Past and Present Practices. Bee World International Bee Research Association 90 (2): 26- 29. 9. Al-Ghamdi, A., Nuru, A, (2013). Beekeeping in Kingdoms of Saudi Arabia: opportunities and challenges. Bee World International Bee Research Association, 90 (3): 54-57 10. Alqarni A, Balhareth H, Owayss A. (2013). Queen morphometric and reproductive characters of Apis mellifera jemenitica, a native honey bee to Saudi Arabia. Bulletin of Insectology 66 (2): 239-244. (IF: 0.59) 11. Alqarni A. S, Hannan MA, Hinojosa-Díaz IA, Engel MS (2013) First record of Chiasmognathus from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 35: 83–89. (IF: 0.524) 12. Al-Saleh M. A., A. I. Ragab, O. Abdalla, I. M. Al-Shahwan, M. A. Amer, J. K. Brown , A. M. Idris (2013). Genetic diversity of Bemisia tabaci in Saudi Arabia: Evidence for a distinct haplotype and widespread distribution of the B haplotype. First International whitefly Symposium, 20-24 May, 2013, Kolymbari, Crete, Greece. 13. AL-Saleh, M. A., I. and M. A. Amer, (2013). Molecular characterization of the 16SrII group phytoplasmas associated with faba bean (Vicia faba L.) in Saudi Arabia. Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences. (IF: 0.58) (Accepted) 14. AL-Saleh, M. A., M. A. Amer, I. M. AL-Shahwan, and O. A. Abdalla (2013). Molecular Detection and Characterization of a Witches'-broom Phytoplasma in Alfalfa and its leafhopper Vector in Saudi Arabia. International Journal of Agriculture and Biology. (IF: 0.940) (In press) 15. Al-Saleh, M., I. Al-Shahwan, O. Abdallah, M. Amer, A. Idris (2013). Geographical location influences the composition of satellites associated with Cotton leaf curl Gezira virus. 7th international geminivirus symposium, 5th International ssDNA Comarative Virology Workshop, November 3-9, Hangzhou, China. 16. Al-Saleh, M., I. Al-Shahwan, O. Abdallah, M. Amer, A. Idris (2013). Associations of a monopartite begomovirus and defective betasatellite with okra leaf curl disease in Jazan, Saudi Arabia. Phytopathology 103 (Supplement 2), No. 6: S2.5. (Abstract) 17. Al-Sarar, A. S.; Bayoumi, A. E. and Abobakr, Y. (2013) Evaluation of the Cytotoxicity of Twelve Systemic Pesticides Using Two Mammalian Cellular Models, CHO-K1 and V79-4 Cell lines. Environment Health conference 3- 6 March, Boston, USA. 18. Al-Shahwan, I. M., M. A. Al-Saleh, O. A. Abdalla, M. A. Amer (2013). Preliminary Data on Viruses Affecting Alfalfa in Saudi Arabia. "Plant Diseases and Resistance Mechanisms" to be held in Vienna on February 20-22th, 2013. (Poster) 19. Ansari, M. J., A. Al-Ghamdi, R.Kumar, S. Usmani, Y. Al-attal, N.Adgaba, K. Singh and H. S. Dhaliwal (2013). Characterization and gene mapping of a chlorophyll- deficient mutant clm1 of Triticum monococcum L." Biologia Plantarum. 57 (3): 442- 448. (IF-1.69) 20. Ansari, M. J., A. Al-Ghamdi, R.Kumar, S. Usmani, Y. Al-attal, N.Adgaba, K. Singh and H. S. Dhaliwal (2013). Characterization and gene mapping of a brittle culm mutant of diploid wheat (Triticum monococcum L.) with irregular xylem vessels development" Acta Physiologiae Plantarum. 35 (8): 2407-2419. (IF:1.30) 21. Ansari, M. J., Ahmad Al-Ghamdi, Salma Usmani, Noori Al-Waili, Deepak Sharma, Adgaba Nuru, Yehya Al- Attal (2013) The effect of jujube honey on Candida albicans growth and biofilm formation. Archives of Medical Research. 44 (5): 352- 360. (IF:2.07) 22. Ansari, M.J., Kumar, R., Singh, K., Dhaliwal, H.S. (2013): Characterization and molecular mapping of a soft glume mutant sog3 in diploid wheat (Triticum monococcum L.) Cereal Research Communication (In Press) (IF: 0.549, DOI 10.1007/s11738-013-1275-0) 23. Antony, B. (2013). Detection of the nucleopolyhedroviruses in the eggs and caterpillars of the tea looper caterpillar Hyposidra infixaria (Walk.) (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) as evidence of transovarial transmission. Archives of Phytopathology & Plant Protection. (In Press) (DOI: 10.1080/03235408.2013.845469). 24. Antony, B. and Ishikawa, Y. (2013). Tissue-specific expression of the pheromone gland-specific fatty acyl reductase gene in Ostrinia scapulalis. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 149 (1): 94-98. (IF:1.90) 25. Antony, B., Aldosari, S.A., Aldawood, A.S. (2013). Characterization of fatty acyl-coA reductases involved in the sex pheromone biosynthesis of the cotton leaf-worm, Spodoptera littoralis (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Entomological Society of America Annual meeting, Texas, USA. November 12, 2013. (Poster) 26. Antony, B., Lisha, V. S., Palaniswami, M.S., Jayapraks, C. A. (2013). A Comprehensive Knowledge of Bemisia tabaci Natural Enemy Complex in Indian Context. First International whitefly conference, Crete, Greece, 20-24 May, 2013. 27. Antony, B., Lisha, V. S., Mithra, S., Palaniswami, M.S., (2013). BEMSIM–A computer based simulation model for predicting the population dynamics of Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius): description and validation of the model. First International whitefly conference, Crete, Greece, 20-24 May, 2013. 28. Assing, V.; Schülke, M., Sharaf, M. R. & Aldawood, A. S. (2013). On the Staphylinidae of Saudi Arabia, with descriptions of two new species (Insecta: Coleoptera). Linzer Biologische Beitraege 45(1):141-154 29. Bayoumi, A. E., Al-Sarar, A. and Abobakr, Y. (2013) Cytotoxicity of 45 Binary Mixtures of Pesticides Using CHO-K1 Cell Line. Environment Health conference 3- 6, March, Boston, USA. 30. B.V.Subba Reddy, P. Sivaramakrishna Reddy, B. Phaneendra Reddy, J.S. Yadav, Ahamad Al Khazim Al Ghamdi (2013). Stereoselective total synthesis of xyolide. Tetrahedron Letters 54: 5758–5760. (IF: 2.376) 31. Chuan-Rui Zhang, Saleh A. Aldosari, Polana S. P. V. Vidyasagar,, Karun M. Nair, and Muraleedharan G. Nair (2013). Antioxidant and Anti-inflammatory Assays Confirm Bioactive Compounds in Ajwa Date Fruit., Journal of Agricultural & Food Chemistry, 61 (24): 5834-40. (IF: 2.823) 32. Damiri, B. V., I. M. Al-Shahwan, M. A. Al-Saleh, O. A. Abdalla, M. A. Amer (2013). Identification and characterization of an isolate of Cowpea aphid-borne mosaic potyvirus in Saudi Arabia. Journal of Plant Pathology, 95(1), 79-85. (IF: 0.912) 33. Elhawagryi, M. S.; Khalil, M. W.; Sharaf, M. R.; Fadl, H. H. Aldawood, A. S. (2013). A preliminary study on the insect faunaof Al-Baha Province, Saudi Arabia, with descriptions of two new species. Zookeys 274:1-88. (IF: 0.879) 34. El-Mubarak, Arif H. A. I. Rushdi, K. F. Al-Mutlaq, Abdulqader Y. BaZeyad, Staci L. Massey-Simonich and B. R. T. Simoneit (2013). Identification and source apportionment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in ambient air particulate matter of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia., Environ. Sci. Poll. Res. (IF: 2.561, (DOI): 10.1087/s11356- 013-1946-9) 35. Emad I. Khater, Mohamed M. Sowilem, Mohamed F. Sallam, Azzam M. Alahmed (2013). Ecology and habitat characterization of mosquitoes in Saudi Arabia. Tropical Biomedicine 30(3): 1–19. (IF: 0.73) 36. Engel MS, Alqarni A. S, Hannan MA (2013). A preliminary list of bee genera in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). J. of the Saudi Soc. of Agric. Sci. 12: 85–89. 37. Hany A. Kamal and Emad I. M. Khater (2013). Potency and persistence of the bacterial mosquitocide Bacillus sphaericus against culicine mosquitoes under field conditions. Submitted for review, Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology, 43(1): 115–124. 38. Hlaváč, P., Sharaf, M. R. & Aldawood, A. S. (2013). New species and record of of Pselaphinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from Saudi Arabia. Zootaxa 3666 (3): 331- 336. (IF: 0.927) 39. Hossam F. Abou-Shaara, Ahmad A. Al-Ghamdi and Abdelsalam A. Mohamed (2013). A Suitability Map for Keeping Honey Bees Under Harsh Environmental Conditions Using Geographical Information System. World Applied Sciences Journal 22 (8): 1099-1105. 40. Hossam F.
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