to determine rice yield loss resulting from blast disease (magnaporthe grisea) at the corp's different growth stages, a field experiment was conducted at the rice research institute of iran, rasht. rice local cultivar hashemi was transplanted to 3×4m plots for the experimental treatments (time of disease evaluation) each treatment was replicated 4 times. under natural infection conditions,...

The aim of development and advancements in every research and technology is to provide easy solutions to any user’s problems including the day to day ones. One problem that a farmer might face is to identify whether his crop is ready for harvesting or not. Hence the efforts are taken to figure out an easy solution for a farmer where he can use his cellular phone to identify whether his crop is ...

in this study, the effect of application time (immediately and one week after harvest) of some chemicals (rindite, carbon disulphide, gibberellic acid and thiourea) on breaking of dormancy and sprouting of potato (solanum tuberosum l., cv., marfona) minitubers was investigated. for the carbon disulphide (25 ml m-3 for four days) and rindite (0.2 ml l-1 for two days) application, minitubers were...

OBJECTIVE To describe HARVEST, a novel point-of-care patient summarization and visualization tool, and to conduct a formative evaluation study to assess its effectiveness and gather feedback for iterative improvements. MATERIALS AND METHODS HARVEST is a problem-based, interactive, temporal visualization of longitudinal patient records. Using scalable, distributed natural language processing a...

Thyme (Thymus vulgaris L.) is an important medicinal plant with highly valuable essential oils. In this study, effects of different fertilizer treatments and cuts on Thymus vulgaris L. was evaluated in 2008-2009. The research was conducted at Alborz Research Station, Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Karaj, Iran. The Experimental design was split plot in time in the form of a random...

Selected morphometrics of Heterorhabditis bacteriophora and seven species of Steinernema from in vivo culture were compared in relation to time of harvest. In addition, five Steinernema species were reared in vitro and their morphometrics were compared with those from in vivo culture. With in vivo culture, there was generally a negative linear relationship between body length of infective juven...

Background & Aim:Vaginal disease has always been a great concern of women. Medicinal plants as natural resources with fewer side effects can effectively treat these infections given the diversity of these infections, resistance to antibiotics and side effects of existing drugs. The present study aimed to compare antimicrobial effects of methanol extract of Francoeuria Undul...