World agriculture is facing a lot of challenges like producing 70% more food for an additional 2.3 billion people by 2050. However, the productivity of crops is not increasing in parallel with the food demand. The lower productivity is attributable to various abiotic stresses, of...
Aims: This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of irrigation intervals, potassium and zinc fertilizers treatments on fenugreek, Place and Duration of Study: The experiment was conducted in Agriculture and Natural Resources Research Center of Khorasan-e-Razavi, Mashhad, Ira...
The main aim of this review is to provide an overview of the foliar fertilization studies in Bulgaria, comparing them with current research trends and to indicate future benefits of foliar nutrient spray investigations and their importance for agronomic science and practice. The...
Aims: The present study was aimed at assessing the bioactivity of the HPLC fractions and peaks from egg-pod materials of the crowd-reared desert locust Schistocerca gregaria (Forskål) (Orthoptera: Acrididae) that elicited gregarious behaviour in the first-instar hatchlings derive...
A study was conducted to evaluate the effects of dietary inclusion of ground pits of date palm (DP) (Phoenix dactylifera) supplementing with a commercial probiotic mixture (Yeasture®) on the performance, egg quality characteristics, blood parameters, and excreta pH of laying hens...
Aims: Preliminary observations showed that 75 ìM PD98059 had a long-term effect on growth of maize seedlings. To verify and systemically analyze the effects of 75 ìM PD98059 on growth of maize seedlings, we designed and conducted this experiment. Methodology: We recorded and anal...
Aims: Vitis vinifera is a grape species and native to the Mediterranean region and east to northern Iran. The present research was carried out in greenhouse conditions to study the effects of four concentrations of indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) (0; 2000; 4000; and 6000 mg/l) and th...
Aims: To establish PCR procedures for detecting common transgenic elements from soy sauce samples. Methodology: Soy sauce samples, Haitian, Jiajia, Taitaile and Lijinji, and common transgenic elements from them, the CaMV35S promoter, the NOS terminator, and the Cp4-EPSPS, were ch...
Objective: To assess the impact of Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) Package among pregnant women regarding correct knowledge of susceptibility of the low birth weight neonate to certain morbidities. Study Design: A community based intervention study. Place and Duration of Stu...
The role of herbs in increasing sex capability has been well demonstrated in science, However, the effect of Rocket (Eruca sativa) which known, as sex herb in animals, was studied in this work. It was found that 1:10 methanol w/v extract was effective in producing two types of ca...
Aims: To evaluate the effects of the juice of Citrullus lanatus (watermelon) on gastric acid secretion and pH in Indomethacin-induced ulceration in male albino rats. Study Design: The experiment was divided into two studies. Under each study, four groups of rats were pre-treated...
Aims: This study is developed to discuss whether the plant morphology and seed characters (macro and micromorphological and protein pattern) can provide an additional fundamental tool helping in explanation of the taxonomic trends at specific and infra-specific level within the 4...
Aims: The present study focuses on evaluation of tyrosinase producing endophytic fungi from Calotropis gigantea, Azadirachta indica, Ocimum tenuiflorum and Lantana camara. Place and Duration of the Study: The present study was conducted at centre for Scientific Research and Devel...
In the present study, ovarian follicular fluid concentrations of trace elements and biochemical metabolites in relation to follicular size were investigated in dairy cows. Ovaries were recovered from 40 female adult Holstein Friesian cows 5–7 years of age with clinically normal r...
It has been recognized that pluripotent human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) must be transformed into fate-restricted derivatives before use for cell therapy. Realizing the therapeutic potential of pluripotent hESC derivatives demands a better understanding of how a pluripotent cel...