BACKGROUND AND AIMS The timing of flowering and summer dormancy induction plays a central role in the adaptation of Mediterranean geophytes to changes in the length of the growth season along rainfall gradients. Our aim was to analyse the role of the variation in the responses of flowering and summer dormancy to vernalization, daylength and growth temperature for the adaptation of Poa bulbosa, ...

OBJECTIVE Mobile phones generate microwave radiation which is absorbed by exposed tissue and converted into heat. It may cause detrimental health effects. The aim of the experiment was to check if exposure to EMF emitted by mobile phone influenced the tympanic temperature. MATERIAL AND METHODS Human volunteer study was performed on ten healthy young men, aged 22.1±4.7 years, examined three ti...

Urine : Albumin +. No sugar or casts. Widal.?Negative 1 in 25 for B. typhosus, and para A, B and and C. Weil-Felix reaction.?OXK 25, OX2 -f100, 0X19 + 200. Progress.?The temperature became normal on the morning of the 14th day of illness. He had slight rise of temperature in the evening for the next 3 days, and it settled down to normal on the 18th day. The hiccough continued till the 16th day....

in order to study stigma receptivity in peach cultivars : (‘makhmali’, ‘anjiri-ye-tabestane’, ‘anjiri-ye maleki’, ‘haj-kazemi’ and ’zoodras’) controlled pollination was done in both field and laboratory conditions. before pollination trials the in vitro germination of the pollen was tested in petridish. branches with adequate number of flowers were chosen for controlled pollination. self pollin...

Animals under environmental thermal stress conditions have reduced fertility due to impairment of some mechanisms involved in their reproductive performance that are different in males and females. As a consequence, the most sensitive periods of time and the magnitude of effect of temperature on fertility can differ between sexes. The objective of this study was to estimate separately the effec...

Neonatal maternal separation (NMS) is a form of stress that exerts persistent, sex-specific effects on the hypoxic ventilatory response. Adult male rats previously subjected to NMS show a 25% increase in the response, whereas NMS females show a response 30% lower than controls (8). To assess the extent to which NMS affects ventilatory control development, we tested the hypothesis that NMS alter...

Abstract In this study, a 2×3 factorial design  with two levels of  shrimp density (25 and 50 shrimp per m-2) and three  levels of   red algae density (0, 200 and 400g per m-2) was applied to calculate  nitrogen and phosphorous budgets in integrated culture of Litopenaeus vannamei with Gracilaria corticata  during 45 days under zero water exchange system. Juvenile of L.vannamei (5.82 ± 0.11 g...