Under a climate change scenario, vineyards will experience serious challenges in the future. In an attempt to overcome such difficulties, this experiment offers study on effect of regulated deficit irrigation as method for short-term adaptation cv. Touriga Francesa, grafted into rootstock 110R Douro region during three-year period. Water stress plant and its effects canopy, production, quality ...

this study was conducted to investigate the effects of different temperatures on seed germination of plantago ovata and also to evaluate cardinal temperatures. various constant temperatures (5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 and 35ºc) were conducted in a completely randomized design with four replications. the germinated seeds were counted every day and the rate of germination percentage, cumulative germin...

Natural products are important resources in traditional medicine and have been long used for prevention and treatment of many diseases. Medicinal plants have immunomodulatory properties. Aloe is one of the herbal medicines widely used in natural treatment and alternative therapy for various types of diseases. Aloe vera has been shown to modulate the immune response. Macrophages have been shown ...

Heterozygous mutations in the human Kir6.2 gene (KCNJ11), the pore-forming subunit of the ATP-sensitive K(+) channel (K(ATP) channel), are a common cause of neonatal diabetes. We identified a novel KCNJ11 mutation, R50Q, that causes permanent neonatal diabetes (PNDM) without neurological problems. We investigated the functional effects this mutation and another at the same residue (R50P) that l...

Due to the large acreage of olive trees in Mediterranean basin, biochar from tree pruning may become an important resource as part circular economy strategies. However, so far, there is not much knowledge on whether same characteristics are repeated once production up-scaled industrial level. Accordingly, this study aimed scale up with three reactors (semi-pilot, pilot and industrial) ascertain...

Introduction. In the International Code of Practice for dosimetry TRS-398 published by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), water is recommended as the reference medium for the determination of absorbed dose for high-energy electron beams. Plastic phantoms may be used under certain circumstances for electron beam dosimetry for beam qualities R50 < 4g/cm2 (E0 below 10 MeV). In our study, w...

The electrical impedance of kiwifruit [Actinidia deliciosa (A. Chev) C.F. Liang et A.R. Ferguson, cv. Hayward] was studied during fruit ripening. Measurements were made on whole fruit, and tissues excised from the outer pericarp, inner pericarp and core. Alternating current at frequencies between 50 Hz and 1 MHz was passed through fruit and tissue samples, and complex impedance spectra were sep...

Polley, S. D., P. E. Tiku, R. T. Trueman, M. X. Caddick, I. Y. Morozov, and A. R. Cossins. Differential expression of coldand diet-specific genes encoding two carp liver 9-acyl-CoA desaturase isoforms. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 284: R41–R50, 2003. First published September 12, 2002; 10.1152/ajpregu.00263.2002.—Carp respond to cold by the upregulated expression of 9-acyl-CoA desatur...

BACKGROUND Chronic exercise and food restriction (FR) have directionally opposite changes in transcription of molecular structures of calcium handling and thyroid hormone (TH) status. OBJECTIVE Evaluate the association of chronic exercise and FR on serum thyroid hormones and gene transcription of molecular structures of intracellular calcium transients and thyroid receptors in myocardium of r...