Plants of the family Anacardiaceae have a long history of use by various peoples for medicinal and other purposes. Cotinus coggygria, also known as the “smoke tree”, is one of the two species constituting a small genus of the family Anacardiaceae, viz., C. coggygria Scop. (syn.: Rhus cotinus L.) The Iranian smoke tree, plant material air-dried C. coggygria we...

Pollinator species such as butterflies and bees are declining globally primarily due to habitat loss. This is especially concerning within the tallgrass prairie ecoregion of North America, where the land area comprised of native vegetation has declined by an estimated 99%. Thus, tallgrass prairie restoration and management is imperative. The control of invasive plant species such as tall fescue...

to study the mixing rates effects of barley (hordeum vulgare l.) and chickpea (desi type) (cicer ariethinum l.) on forage production under dryland conditions, a field experiment was conducted at agricultural research station of university of tehran (karaj campus) during the 2003 – 2004 growing season. the 11 treatments of this experiment were statistically compared based on a randomized complet...

to determine effects of phenyl-phethalamate acid on yield and yield components of tomato, cucumber, eggplant and cabbage, this experiment was investigated in a randomized complete block design with three replications in the spring and summer of 2010. treatments included the time and number of foliar spraying with phenyl-phethalamate acid (1000 ppm). control plants were not sprayed. the first st...

Abstract No-till cropping systems with cover crops can improve soil health, but often rely on glyphosate, which is a contentious herbicide. In this study, we investigated whether system based the direct sowing of sunflower ( Helianthus annuus ) in dead mulch roller-crimped hairy vetch Vicia villosa could be competitive where glyphosate also sprayed to terminate crop and control weeds. We hypoth...

In annual forage legumes such as the common vetch (Vicia sativa L.), in which the pods represent a substantial proportion of the total biomass, the optimum harvesting stage may not adjust to the classical model of decreasing nutritive value after flowering. The effect of harvest time on the yield of the main chemical components of common vetch was evaluated under field conditions typical of the...

Regulated RNA metabolism appears to be a critical component of molecular mechanisms directing flowering initiation in plants. A group of RNA binding proteins exerts their roles through the autonomous flowering pathway. Posttranscriptional mechanisms regulated by microRNAs (miRNAs) also play a key role in flowering-time control. Here, we demonstrate that the GIGANTEA (GI)-regulated miR172 define...

This study aimed to verify the potential of three Aspergillus and Bacillus species as growth promoters in cotton plants under greenhouse conditions. The experiment was conducted with a completely randomized design seven treatments (six microorganisms plus one control) five replicates until flowering stage at 70 days after emergence. inoculation velezensis (Bv188) subtilis (Bs248 Bs290) had posi...

The objective of the present study was to determine dietary effect different growth stages rapeseed (Brassica rapa L.) on nutrient intake and digestibility, nitrogen balance, rumen fermentation kinetics in sheep. Four treatments were utilised. A basal control diet based alfalfa hay, oat soybean meal corn grain. Then hay replaced with 300 g/kg DM forage harvested at three stages: Vegetative, Flo...