barley belongs to the poaceae which is the largest monocotyledon family. plastid single-copy gene acetyl-coa carboxylase (accase) is the first step in the biosynthesis of fatty acids and therefore, it is used to study the phylogenetic relationships, evolutionary and systematic of grasses. in this study, for the first time, phylogenetic relationship of eight species of hordeum genus from iran in...

background:class ii transactivator (ciita) is a dominanttranscriptional element, controlling numerous genes in theimmune system. ciita is expressed in a constitutive pattern inantigen presenting cells although its expression can occur inother cell types. since the revelation of ciita, there have beenconsiderable advances toward understanding its role as anactivator of mhc ii genes in humans and...

pistacia khinjuk (stocks) is a native species that, along with p. atlantica, is widely distributed from eastern to western iran through the makran zone, zagros mountains and the sanandaj-sirjan zone, ranging from 50 to 3300 m above sea level. the identification of resistance gene analogs holds great promise for developing resistant plants. a pcr approach with degenerate primers designed from co...

background: no data is available on morphology and genetic characteristics of echinococcus granulosus derived from donkeys of iran, despite of its existence in donkeys.in the present study morphometric variations of the rostellar hooks of protoscoleces and genotype characteristics of hydatid cyst of donkey from iran were determined. methods: protoscoleces prepared from hydatid cyst of donkey of...

background and aims: dna constructs containing hcv antigens have become one of the vaccine candidates for induction of anti-hcv cellular and humoral immunity. in this study, we constructed a novel expressing vector harboring a fusion sequence derived from an overlapping fragment in the middle of ns3 and a truncated core fragment to avoid troubles reported to be associated with full gene express...

Pasteurella multocida is known as an important heterogenic bacterial agent causes some severe diseases such as fowl cholera in poultry and haemorrhagic septicaemia in cattle and buffalo. A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay was developed using primers derived from conserved part of 16S-23S rRNA gene. The PCR amplified a fragment size of 0.7 kb using DNA from nine avian P. multocida  isolates...

background: the mesobuthus eupeus scorpion venoms are known to contain α-toxin peptides, many of which interfere with k+ ion channel function. these toxin peptides have important value in  the pharmacology and physiology studies of specific k+ channel of cells. objectives: given the  lack of information of the molecular biology of peptides in the toxin of iranian scorpions, the aim of this stud...

background: many plant growth-promoting bacteria including rhizobia contain the 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (acc) deaminase enzyme that can leave acc, and thereby lower the level of ethylene in stressed plants. drought and salinity are the most common environmental stress factors for plants in iran. objectives: the main aim of this research was development of bio-fertilizers containing ac...