Two trials involving a total of 39 grits were conducted to determine the effect of feeding naturally molded and Fusarium roseum inoculated corn on reproductive performance of female swine. Trial 1 involved a comparison of the reproductive performance of gilts fed control and naturally infected moldy corn. The length of estrous cycle, duration of estrus, length of gestation period, and average b...

The production of extracellular α-amylase by Trichothecium roseum was studied in solid state fermentation (SSF). The effects of wheat bran (WB), rye straw (RS), corncob leaf (CL), sunflower oil meal (SOM) and rice husk (RH) were examined. WB exhibited the highest enzyme production. The appropriate moisture level, incubation period, moistening agent, incubation temperature, inoculum level and pa...

The question on the patterns and limits of reduction of plastid genomes in nonphotosynthetic plants and the reasons of their conservation is one of the intriguing topics in plant genome evolution. Here, we report sequencing and analysis of plastid genome in nonphotosynthetic orchids Epipogium aphyllum and Epipogium roseum, which, with sizes of 31 and 19 kbp, respectively, represent the smallest...

the effects of two iranian medicinal plants including zataria multiflora and geranium pelargoniumwere evaluated on growth-inhibiting of some toxigenic fungi such as aspergillus flavus, a. parasiticus, a.ochraceus and fusarium verticillioides. in this study, standard z. multiflora and g. pelargonium essentialoils (eos) were diluted in 0.01% dimethyl sulfoxide. different dilutions of z. multiflor...

Scorzonera amasiana Hausskn. and Bornm. was described from type specimens collected by J.F.N. Bornmueller in 1889 but it was not collected again until 1993, when it was found near Amasya, Turkey. Populations of S. amasiana were quite small at that limited locations and were vulnerable to human impacts. Therefore, suitable conservation strategies should be developed immediately in order to prote...