Harpin induces salicylic acid and abscisic acid signaling in plants under biotic and abiotic stress, respectively. Our previous report showed that the effective harpin...
50(3): 841-845,2018A serious abiotic stress in the world is salinity, which leads to great losses in the quality and quantity of products in agriculture. To investigate the tolerance mechanisms to salinity, a two-...
50(3): 847-852,2018Mesocosm experiments were conducted to examine belowground responses of Phragmites australis and Suaeda salsa to the combined stresses of increased salinity a...
50(3): 853-861,2018A pot culture experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of NaCl on the growth, root ultrastructure, water content, and ion distribution in two - year - old beach plum (Prunus maritima...
50(3): 863-869,2018There are few studies related to the responses of plants grown from heteromorphic seeds to heavy metals. Therefore we tested the hypothesis that plants grown from dimo...
50(3): 871-877,2018Root length density and rooting depth have been established as drought resistant traits and these could be used as selection criteria for drought resistant genotype in many plant species. Howeve...
50(3): 879-886,2018Extreme amount of heavy metals and the contamination in metropolitan areas caused by industrial sediments, factory pollution, and car exhaust lead to a negative effect...
50(3): 887-892,2018This study explored the influence of aluminum (Al) stress on the growth of ‘Liangyoupei 9 (LYP9)’ rice variety. Seedlings were cultured under treatment wit...
50(3): 893-899,2018Application of salicylic acid is known to resist the adverse effect of salinity on crop species. This study was aimed to assess the effect of salicylic acid (50 μM)...
50(3): 901-912,2018Heat stress affects the accumulation of starch, which is responsible for the major loss in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) yield. Clarifying the changes...
50(3): 913-920,2018Phyllostachys edulis is an endemic and dominant bamboo species in southern China. It suffers often from seasonal drought during the cultivation process. In the present study, the effect...
50(3): 921-928,2018Twelve Parmotrema tinctorum individuals were collected from the Yaoluoping national nature reserve of Anhui Province, China. The relationships between biological characters of lichen in...
50(3): 929-936,2018Potassium application to most of the crops including wheat is scarce in Pakistan, although it is a major element required by the plants. The present study was carried...
50(3): 937-947,2018Increased plant density has a greater risk of lodging than decreased plant density because of the changes in the root system structure. The root architecture and nutrition uptake of high-density...
50(3): 949-954,2018Accumulation of trehalose, a sugar rarely found in plants, is believed to be involved in improving drought stress tolerance in different plant species. To assess the influence of trehalose on re...
50(3): 955-961,2018The study was conducted to evaluate the effect of osmotic pressure on germination and radicle growth of two test species wheat and chickpea along with the aqueous extr...
50(3): 963-967,2018For preliminary characterization and discrimination among four wild and three cultivated economic species of family Lamiaceae scattered in Taif governorate of Saudi Ar...
50(3): 969-975,2018The application of traditional analyses and methods in breeding-genetic researches is necessary to be combined with the study of the ecological-genetic model for organ...
50(3): 977-981,2018Phylogenetic relationships within Tamaricaceae particularly for genus Tamarix were studied using chloroplast intergenic spacer sequences of psbA-trnH...
50(3): 983-987,2018To better understand the functions of key genes involved in terpenoid biosynthesis in Jatropha curcas, we cloned and characterized three genes, namely acetyl ...
50(3): 989-998,2018Amorphophallus konjac, also known as the devil’s tongue arum, is the most widely utilised Amorphophallus species in China. To evaluate its gene...
50(3): 999-1004,2018These experiments were carried out at the IAU research farm, Arak, Iran, in 2014 and 2015. Treatments involved two sweet corn (Zea mays L. convar cv.Chase and...
50(3): 1005-1011,2018Capsaicinoids are a group of secondary plant metabolites which are synthesized and accumulated only in the fruits of peppers (Capsicum annuum L.). In this pap...
50(3): 1013-1022,2018Seeds of the Chinese herbal plant Artemisia annua L. were treated with a magnetic field (MF) prior to sowing in order to observe the effects on germination, h...
50(3): 1023-1028,2018The effects of Bacillus cereus were investigated on wheat in the presence or absence of L-tryptophan, in a saline sodic field. An aqueous solution of L-trypto...
50(3): 1029-1037,2018Brassica napus L., a candidate with high yield and good quality oil potential was evaluated for genetic divergence for two years on two locations. A collectio...
50(3): 1039-1045,2018Based on the transcriptional analysis of Schisandra sphenanthera Rehd. Et Wils., a total of 129,951 assembled unigenes were obtained. This article found some ...
50(3): 1047-1059,2018Purple rape is a widely used leafy vegetable in china which exhibits an enormous nutritional value. In this study, different proportions and ratios of substrates, incl...
50(3): 1061-1068,2018Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is an important part of human diet due to the impressive panel of sugars, polyphenols, antioxidants and essential elements....
50(3): 1069-1076,2018Jasmonates analogues including jasmonic acid (JA) and methyl-jasmonate (MeJA) are plant-signaling molecules involved in defense against insects and pathogens. In C...
50(3): 1077-1083,2018MicroRNA (miRNA) is a class of small RNAs. It is non-coding, 18-26 nucleotides (nt) in length and play a useful and vital role in post-transcriptional gene regulation ...
50(3): 1085-1091,2018Anthropogenic climate change is influencing many aspects of biodiversity hotspot of the western Himalaya. Muzaffarabad district as part of western Himalayan is a strongly seasonal area, thus stu...
50(3): 1093-1112,2018To assess floristic composition, phenology, leaf and biological spectrum of an unexplored remote valley (Manoor Valley), frequent field visits were arranged in differe...
50(3): 1113-1124,2018The samples collected from 11 areas of Guizhou Province, China, were investigated to illustrate the effects of soil indicators and environmental factors on flavonoids ...
50(3): 1125-1133,2018This work aimed at studying the changes in the vegetation structure and soil components at upstream and downstream areas of Alaqiq dam. A total of 169 species belonging to 124 genera and 47 fami...
50(3): 1135-1145,2018Previous studies have shown that small scale resource heterogeneity may strongly influence plant fitness and many ecological processes. Clonal plant species performed...
50(3): 1147-1155,2018Guizhou Province in China is a typical karst region. Because of its fragile environment, the restoration of the vegetation and environment of this province is highly i...
50(3): 1157-1170,2018The point pattern analysis was applied for analyzing plant spatial distributions, predicting species associations, and providing an efficient representation of ecologi...
50(3): 1171-1179,2018In this study, the detailed pollen morphological structures of three endemic Cirsium (Asteraceae) Miller taxa showing the natural distribution in NE Anatolia, Turkey: C. tr...
50(3): 1181-1185,2018This study aims to statistically compare the nümerical values of root and scape anatomy of 13 Crocus taxa. Anatomical variations in 13 Crocus L...
50(3): 1187-1190,2018Dominant male sterility is one of the two most important types of male sterility. However, its underlying mechanism has not yet been characterized. In this study, the ...
50(3): 1191-1196,2018Hepatica nobilis seeds exhibit deep morpho-physiological dormancy and contain undeveloped embryo at the time of dispersal. The objective of our study was to i...
50(3): 1197-1202,2018Studies were initiated to explore the role of plant growth regulators and explant types on efficient plantlets regeneration via direct and indirect organogenesis in Ki...
50(3): 1203-1210,2018Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are the most influential and ubiquitous rhizosphere microbiome. AMF improve the soil characteristics and assist the symbiotic plants...
50(3): 1211-1217,2018Evaporation from soil surface is an important component of the water balance in irrigated agriculture. Mulching as an effective technique not only decreases soil moist...
50(3): 1219-1224,2018Rootstock and scion have significant effects on fruit production in sweet cherry, but their interplay has not been fully detected for the cellular mechanism at differe...
50(3): 1225-1232,2018In the study, we used high-throughput sequencing as a tool for testing and comparing the microbes from two soil samples in terms of the microbial quantity, uniformity ...
50(3): 1233-1240,2018The filamentous fungus Trichoderma is an important fungus due to its biocontrol properties. This study was conducted on mycoparasitism activity of Trichod...
50(3): 1241-1245,2018The present study deals with the fungal infections, a great amount of food losses occur worldwide. The infections caused by Penicillium digitatum, green mold agent in Citrus fruits, are...
50(3): 1247-1252,2018Macrophomina phaseolina (Tassi) Goid, Rhizoctonia solani Kuhn and Fusarium species Schlecht are reported to be associated with wilting and r...
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