in order to study the effects of irrigation levels on growth criteria, yield components and seed yield of four ecotypes of sesame (sesamum indicum l.), a field experiment was conducted as factorial based on a randomized complete block design with three replications at the agricultural research station, ferdowsi university of mashhad, during growing season 2010-2011. three irrigation levels (200...

Wounding of plants leads to endogenous rise of jasmonic acid (JA) accompanied with the expression of a distinct set of genes. Among them are those coding for the allene oxide cyclase (AOC) that catalyses a regulatory step in JA biosynthesis, and for 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate synthase 2 (DXS2), an enzyme involved in isoprenoid biosynthesis. To address the question how roots and shoots of Me...

Lentil (Lens culinaris, Medik.), an accessible low-cost high-quality protein form for many people, is a salt-sensitive legume, which already at electrical conductivity (EC) of 3 dS/m (~30 mM NaCl) has yield loss about 90% compared to other crops. Identifying salinity-tolerant lentil germplasm nowadays primary importance ensuring the production superfood and sustainability industry. In this stud...

Sea level rise alters coastal carbon cycling by driving the rapid migration of ecosystems, salinization freshwater systems, and replacement terrestrial forests with tidal wetlands. Wetland soils accumulate (C) at faster rates than soils, implying that sea may lead to enhanced accumulation. Here, we show stored in tree biomass greatly exceeds adjacent marsh so reduces total stocks ?50% less 100 ...

A 45-year-old woman presented with a headache and visual complaints. Brain MRI revealed a large mass in the right occipital cortex. The tumor was surgically removed and pathological examination showed papillary carcinoma originating from thyroid gland. She had a history of thyroid surgery 27 years ago indicating papillary thyroid cancer with central neck lymph node involvement followed by no ad...

in this study, correlation between methylmercury (mehg) accumulation in the kidney and liver and several blood biochemical parameters juvenile beluga (huso huso) including aspartate aminotransferase (ast), alanine aminotransferase (alt), alkaline phosphatase (alp), lactate dehydrogenase (ldh), glucose (glu), and cortisol was investigated. to do this, juvenile beluga were fed with two different ...

We isolated an activation-tagged Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) line, constitutive disease susceptibility2-1D (cds2-1D), that showed enhanced bacterial growth when challenged with various Pseudomonas syringae strains. Systemic acquired resistance and systemic PATHOGENESIS-RELATED GENE1 induction were also compromised in cds2-1D. The T-DNA insertion adjacent to NINE-CIS-EPOXYCAROTENOID DIOXY...

the natural lignan podophyllotoxin, a dimerized product of two phenylpropanoid moieties which occurs in a few plant species, is a pharmacologically important compound for its anticancer activities. optimization of the in vitro cultures might lead to a renewable source of lignans for medicinal uses. in order to maximize efficiency of podophyllotoxin accumulation via in vitro cultures, the effect...

Intracellular accumulation of tau protein is hallmark of sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD), however, the cellular mechanism whereby tau accumulation causes neurodegeneration is poorly understood. Here we report that overexpression of human wild-type full-length tau (termed htau) disrupted mitochondrial dynamics by enhancing fusion and induced their perinuclear accumulation in HEK293 cells and r...