1 Plant Breeding Institute, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, 2 Plant Breeding Institute, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany, Molecular Cell Physiology, Faculty of Biology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany, Department of Plant Developmental Biology, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany, Cluster of Excellence in...

BACKGROUND The transition from vegetative to reproductive stages marks a major milestone in plant development. It is clear that global change factors (e.g., increasing [CO(2)] and temperature) have already had and will continue to have a large impact on plant flowering times in the future. Increasing atmospheric [CO(2)] has recently been shown to affect flowering time, and may produce even grea...

After the f loral transition the shoot apical meristem (SAM) changes its identity switching from vegetative to reproductive. In annual Arabidopsis ecotypes, the transition to f lowering is strongly promoted by variations in day length (photoperiod). The photoperiodic pathway promotes f lowering when Arabidopsis plants are exposed to long days (LDs) conditions (typical of spring and summer). Pho...

We consider two challenging ecological problems and show how they are naturally investigated using spatial survival models with time varying covariates. The first problem involves explanation of the occurrence of wild fires. This process is of interest because over half of the world’s terrestrial ecosystems depend on fire to maintain ecological structure and function and the ecological role of ...

this study aims to investigate the essential oils content of thymbr spicata l. in two times before flowering and full flowering in shirpenah area in ilam province. both samples were dried out in shade and without humidity. then 50 grams of each sample were powdered after obtaining the essential oils by hydro distillation using a clevenger apparatus for 2 hours. resulted oils were dried by anhyd...

increasing product marketability and introduction of new cultivars for fresh consumption of apple is the world's most important breeding objectives. in this study, the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the genotypes from cross between red spur and golab-e-kohanz apple cultivars were evaluated. a total of 19 traits including fruit attributes (firmness, fruit weight,...) and th...

UNLABELLED • PREMISE OF THE STUDY Local adaptation in plants often involves changes in flowering time in response to day length and temperature. Many crops have been selected for uniformity in flowering time. In contrast, variable flowering may be important for increased competitiveness in weed species invading the agricultural environment. Given the shared species designation of cultivated r...

in order to investigate the effects of fertilizer types and irrigation regimes on quantitative criteria of three medicinal plants: lavander, rosemary and hyssop, an experiment was conducted at research field of faculty of agriculture, ferdowsi university of mashhad, during two growing years of 2007-2010. a split-split plot design with three replications was used. treatments were three irrigatio...