The Greek version of the MOS-HIV had good reliability and validity among patients with AIDS. Convergent and concurrent validity were generally confirmed. The MOS-HIV may be useful in assessing health-related quality of life in AIDS patients in Greece. Further research is needed for the evaluation of the Greek version of the MOS-HIV responsiveness to changes over time.
Summary• The effects of enhanced UV-B radiation on reproductive and pollination success were investigated in the Mediterranean annual Malcolmia maritima .• Plants were exposed in the field to ambient or ambient plus supplemental UV-B radiation (biologically equivalent to a 15% ozone depletion over Patras, Greece, 38 ° 14 ′ N, 21 ° 44 ′ E) up to leaf senescence and fruit maturation.• UV-B radiation had no effect on stem and fruit biomass, anthesis time and duration and flower number. However, flower diameter, nectary volume and nectar amount per flower (but not nectar concentration) were significantly increased by supplemental UV-B radiation. In addition UV-B treated plants showed higher reproductive success (i.e. lower abortion rates and higher fruit to flower ratio) and a trend to higher pollination success (i.e. increased number of seeds per fruit). As a result, the seed yield was increased. Seed mass, seed germination and early seedling growth were not affected by UV-B treatment of mother plants.• It is suggested that the UV-B induced changes in flower attributes might have affected pollinators' behaviour in a way that improved the fitness of M. maritima .
Artelari R. 8c Georgiou 0. 2003. Biosystematic study of the genus Limonium (Plumbaginaceae) in the Aegean area, Greece. 111. Limonium on the islands Kithira and Antikithira and the surrounding islets. -Nord. J. Bot. 22: 483-501. Copenhagen. ISSN 0107-055X.The genus Limonium is represented on Kithira, Antikithira and the surrounding islets by the following nine species: L. aphroditae and L. cythereum, recently described from Kithira; L. runemarkii and L. ocymifolium, endemic to Greece; L. graecum and L. sieberi, distributed in E Mediterranean; L. virgatum, L. sinuatum and L. echioides, having a wider Mediterranean distribution. For L. runemarkii, considered so far as endemic to SE Ewia, a new extended distribution range is given from Ewia to NW Kriti, through Peloponnisos and Kithira, showing the phytogeographic relationship of these areas. Moreover, the treatment of L. pigadiense as synonym of L. ocymifolium is proposed. Key and diagnostic characters for the species studied are given, while their affinities to related Aegean and Mediterranean Limonium taxa are discussed. Data on the cytology and breeding system are given. The following chromosome numbers were found 2n=3x=27 for L. aphroditae and L. virgatum, 2n=6x=52 for L. cythereum, 2n=6x=51 for L. sieberi (firstly reported), 2n=5x=43 for L. runemarkii (tirstly reported), L. ocymifolium and L. graecum, 2n=2x=16 for L. sinuatum and 2n=2x=18 for L. echoides. Concerning pollen-stigma combination, L. aphroditae, L. ocymifolium and L. virgatum are monomorphic with the self-incompatible combination B, while L. cythereum and L. runemarkii are also monomorphic with the self-incompatible combination A. According to these data the above species can be considered as apomictic. The facultative apomictic L. graecum was found monomorphic with the combination A, while L. sieberi, has the combination A or B within different populations. The autogamous species L. echioides has the self-compatible combination C, while the allogamous L. sinuatum is dimorphic having both combinations A and B in each population.
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