Introduction The plant Salvinia molesta , generally known as Giant Salvinia or Kariba weed, is a free floating pterophyta indigenous to south-east brazil (Julien et. al 1987). Today plants and animals are shipped, sometimes accidentally, all over the globe to zoos, botanical gardens, and for commercial and agricultural purposes. A small minority of “alien” plants, or introduced, species become ecological as well as economic disasters. Although they may have been innocuous in their native region, these species …showed first 75 words of 2131 total…

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