Drought is the most significant constraint for crop production in arid and semi-arid regions. In order to assess drought tolerance in fifteen rapeseed (Brassica napus) cultivars using yield-based drought tolerance indices, two experiments were conducted at the research station of College of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran during 2009-2010 growing season. The cultivars were...

Background: To determine the incidence of an abnormal glucose tolerance test in patients with recurrent spontaneous abortion and whether metformin would safely reduce the rate of first trimester spontaneous abortions in patients without polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) as well as with PCOS and an abnormal glucose tolerance test. Materials and Methods: Patients with a history of recurrent sponta...

salt tolerance in crops is multigenic in nature and quantitatively inherited, and therefore controlled by minorgenes. to study the diversity of qtls conferring salt tolerance in barley, four barley mapping populations including l94 × vada (l × v, 103 rils), oregon wolf barley (owb) (dom × rec, 94 dhs), susptrit × vada (su × v, 152 lines), and susptrit × cebada capa (su × cc, 113 lines) were tes...