selection of genotypes based on high value of heritability and forecasted genetic conditions would be an effective method for improvement of wheat cultivars. the present investigation was carried out to estimate the genetic variability of agro-physiological characters using biometrical genetic techniques in 20 bread wheat genotypes under irrigated condition. for this purpose an experiment was c...

The fluorescence decay characteristics of the isolated light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b protein have been studied using low-intensity subnanosecond-resolution time-correlated single-photon counting. In the monomeric state in detergent micelles, the chlorophyll a/b protein exhibits biexponential decay (~t = 1.2 ns, ~'2 = 3.3 ns) with the two components having very similar weights. The decay para...

Treatment of maize seedlings with different concentrations of sorbitol decreased the rate of germination substantially. Root and shoot length was also reduced by sorbitol treatment, however, decrease in root length was lower than shoot length. Incubation of leaf segments from maize seedlings grown in continuous light with sorbitol decreased the fresh weight and increased the dry weight in a con...

Action spectra of the Emerson effect in Chlorella and Navicula reveal peaks at 670 mut, in addition to those at 650 mu (Chlorella) and 630 mmicro (Navicula) attributable to chlorophylls b and c. Thus, excitation of chlorophyll a form "chlorophyll a 670" can supplement, in these algae, the excitation of the form "chlorophyll a 680-700." The effect of the auxiliary pigments in these algae may be ...

The synthesis of chlorophyll and ribulose diphosphate carboxylase as well as the development of Hill reaction activity were followed in expanding Populus deltoides leaves and related to photosynthetic patterns. Total chlorophyll, which was not correlated with photosynthetic rate in expanding leaves, decreased slightly with age in very young leaves, due to a decrease in chlorophyll b, but then i...

Maillard Reaction Products (MRP) was prepared from glucose and glysine heated at 90 ̊C in air circulating oven for 12 hours. The effect of MRP on chlorophyll stability in green peas was investigated. The addition of Maillard Reaction Products (MRP) decreased the loss of chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b and total chlorophyll. The conversion of pheophytin and pyropheophytin was also reduced by the add...

UV-B radiation induced alterations in the contents of photosynthetic pigments, antioxidants (phenolics and ascorbic acid) and chlorophyll fluorescence in two tropical variants of Trichosanthes cucumerina L. – Cucurbitaceae. The Green (Variant A) and Light Green (Variant B) variants of T. cucumerina, which had earlier been shown to differ in their total phenolics contents, were used for the stud...

Although it’s not very well known in the world of nutrition, chlorophyll couldn’t be more important in the world of biology and plants. All green plants contain at least one type of chlorophyll (chlorophyll a). Plants that evolved at a later point in history (“higher plants”) also contain a second type of chlorophyll (chlorophyll b). There are also forms of chlorophyll called chlorophyll c1, c2...