Understanding the relationships between biochemical contents and morpho-phenological aspects of a plant during life cycle would be helpful for doing precise agricultural practices through its cultivation. In the present study, various biochemical parameters were evaluated in relation to bulb storage, shoot growth and florogenesis in Iranian lily (Lilium ledebourii var. Kelardasht Salehi1). Ten ...

Onion (Allium cepa L.) is a spice crop and valuable economic cultivated in variety of environments around the world. Because its export demand, it extremely important terms foreign exchange. Drought stress, waterlogging heat cold salinity stress all have an impact on onion growth, production, yield different ways. A lack water causes low productivity, therefore to increase yield, constant suppl...

Green biodegradable bio-based films have gained interest in replacing petroleum-derived plastic packaging materials as a new preservation strategy for fruits and vegetables to alleviate environmental pressures. In this study, we aimed develop novel composite based on microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) reinforced polylactic acid (PLA). Our results demonstrated that the addition of 3% MCC PLA could...

Whole-cell voltage clamp was used to investigate the properties and spatial distribution of fast-deactivating (FD) Ca channels in squid giant fiber lobe (GFL) neurons. Squid FD Ca channels are reversibly blocked by the spider toxin omega-Agatoxin IVA with an IC50 of 240-420 nM with no effect on the kinetics of Ca channel gating. Channels with very similar properties are expressed in both somati...

Classically, the olfactory and vomeronasal pathways are thought to run in parallel non-overlapping axes in the forebrain subserving different functions. The olfactory and vomeronasal epithelia project to the main and accessory olfactory bulbs (primary projections), which in turn project to different areas of the telencephalon in a non-topographic fashion (secondary projections) and so on (terti...

Adult neonatally gamma-irradiated rats were compared with control animals in a non-spatial olfactory associative task using two different procedures. Irradiation induced a clear reduction in the total mean area of the olfactory bulbs and hippocampus but not of the orbital prefrontal cortex, diagonal band and cell layers of the entorhinal and piriform cortex. The gamma-irradiation affected the g...

The alignment of sperm in a cloacal sperm storage gland, the spermatheca, was studied in female desmognathine salamanders by scanning and transmission electron microscopy. Females representing nine species and collected in spring, late summer, and fall in the southern Appalachian Mountains contained abundant sperm in their spermathecae. The spermatheca is a compound tubuloalveolar gland connect...

cludes about 130 species worldwide which have been found to be rich sources of new and bioactive steroidal alkaloids. Many species of Fritillaria have traditionally been used as herbal remedies in Japanese, Turkish, Pakistani and Southeast Asian folk medicines. In China, the bulbs of many Fritillaria species (“Beimu” in Chinese) have been used as antitussive and expectorant herbs in traditional...

Unilateral olfactory deprivation during postnatal development produces significant structural and neurochemical modifications of the olfactory bulb. In the present report, we describe the functional consequences of such deprivation. Rat pups had a single naris occluded on postnatal day 2 (PN2) to deprive them of early olfactory stimulation. On PN20-22, the occluded naris was reopened, the previ...

The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA) and the increasing presence in the market of new lighting technologies like LEDs and EISA-compliant halogens are two factors that will likely lead to rapid change in the residential lighting market in the coming years—change that means hours-of-use (HOU) estimates based on specific lighting technologies are likely to become obsolete very q...