Marine oils containing n-3 fatty acids exhibit variable antineoplastic effects. Diets containing low (11.6% of kcal) or high (46.5% of kcal) levels of marine oils as the exclusive fat source were compared to diets containing identical amounts of safflower oil (n-6) in weanling, male BALB/c ByJ mice. All diets provided approximately 90 kcal/100 g body weight/day, and contained identical quantiti...

safflower is a crop native to iran and could be improved in plant breeding programs by inter-specific crosses. this study was conducted to evaluate genotypes of safflower derived from interspecific hybridization for the relationships between some agronomic traits and yield components. the genotypes were planted according to a randomized complete block design with three replications at the resea...

deficit of oil seeds and high volume of oil imports in iran, and limitation of water sources against production of many oil seed crops, demonstrate the importance of detection tolerant species and cultivars for stressful conditions and their most sensitive growth stages to saline stress. in order to study response of spring safflowers (carthamus tinctorius l.) genotypes to disruption irrigation...

Safflower is a self-pollinating oilseed crop and has been cultivated since antiquity in the Middle East. become minor crop, to increase its cultivation it necessary characterize introduce new germplasm. Thirty-eight safflower cultivars breeding lines from different countries have screened with 8 AFLP primer combinations assess genetic diversity relationships among these genotypes. primers produ...

Safflower (Carthamustinctorius L.) is an oilseed crop adapted to drought prone arid and semi-arid environments. This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of water deficit stress on antioxidant activity, membrane stability index (MSI), leaf chlorophyll content, leaf area index (LAI) and their relationship with seed yield using 64 safflower genotypes grown under normal and water defici...

identification and transfer of desirable genes from wild relatives to crop species is one of the breeding solutions for producing resistance to pathogens and pests. this study was conducted to evaluate crossability and the response to pythium ultimum in three species of the genus carthamus. to assess response to the pathogen, eight safflower (carthamus tinctorius l) genotypes, two ecotypes of c...