prangos ferulacea is a plant found in the mediterranean and middle-east regions used as carminative, anti-flatulent, emollient and antibacterial herb. it is believed that the coumarins are responsible for some of known effects of  prangos . in this research the relaxant effects of p. ferulacea coumrin rich extract as well as osthole as its main prenylated coumarins were investigated on rat ileu...

This paper describes the meta-level control system of a program (Dominic) for parametric design of mechanical components by iterative redesign. We view parametric design as search, and thus Dominic is a hill climbing algorithm. However, from experience with Dominic we concluded that modeling engineering design as hill climbing has several limitations. Therefore, a need for meta-level control kn...

abstract in 2004 and 2005 growing seasons, 260 bean leaf samples with mosaic, vein-banding, and leaf-rolling symptoms were collected from bean fields of fars, kohgiluye va boyer-ahmad, isfahan and tehran provinces. elisa test (das-elisa and indirect-elisa), using bcmv antiserum, confirmed infection of 110 samples to bcmv. a selected isolate of bcmv from fars province was inoculated on three bea...

cucumber mosaic virus (cmv) is one of the causal agents of viral diseases that infected mint (mentha spp.). cmv is a member of the cucumovirus genus in  bromoviridae family. the virus is naturally transmitted by aphids in a non-persistent manner.during  growing season 2007-2008, leaf samples from plants of mint fields with symptoms of viral disease were collected in mint fieldas in tehran provi...

abstract: potato virus y a type species of the genus potyvirus infects several crops in the family solanaceae. pvy isolated from field infected peppers was identified on the basis of host reaction, serological and molecular characterization. the result of elisa, immunoblot electrophoresis and immuno capture reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction   (ic-rt-pcr) indicated that pepper isol...