Mediterranean orchids

Fragmentation of habitats by roads, railroads, fields, buildings and other human activities can affect population size, pollination success, sexual and asexual reproduction specially in plants showing pollinator limitation, such as Mediterranean orchids.

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The diversity and host specificity of endophytic and Rhizoctonia-like fungi were investigated in orchids from the Aegean and Mediterranean regions. Endophytic fungi from various Aegean and Mediterranean orchids (Anacamptis pyramidalis (L.) L.C.M.Richard, Orchis sancta L., Ophrys fusca Link., and Serapias vomeracea subsp. orientalis Greuter) were isolated and identified partially.

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Concern about the use of threatened species in traditional Asian medicines grew in the late 1980s as numbers of rhinoceroses and tigers plummeted, largely because of poaching for the medicinal trade. Thousands of species of animals and plants are used in traditional Asian medicines and many of these species are controlled in international trade. In fact, in many cases such controls were partly as a result of demand for medicinal ingredients. Examples include: horn from rhinoceros, musk pods from musk deer, bile salts from bears, bones from tigers and leopards and stems from orchids....

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