in this experiment, physical and chemical characteristics and estimation of effective fiber and digestibility of some agricultural by-products such as lerd, pulp and date kernel, grape pomace, pistachio hulls, lime and rice straw were determined by using in vitro technique. experimental data were analyzed as a complete randomized design, with three replicates. physical and chemical characterist...

due to its wide adaptability, chickpea is considered as an important crop in arid, semi-arid and in marginal lands. most important factors which limit yield of chickpea are short length of physiological growth period and susceptibility to cold and diseases, especially ascochyta rabie. releasing a chickpea cultivar with high yield and good characteristics such as cold tolerance, resistance to di...

in order to evaluate the physiological indices in relation to the screening of spring safflower genotypes for drought tolerance and productivity, seed and oil yields and yield components were measured for five genotypes including local arak, local esfahan, sina, kh23 – 57 and goldasht. the study was conducted in a loam soil in east azarbaijan, iran, during three successive years (2005-2007)...

9 10 The process by which man accepts or rejects food is of a multi-dimensional 11 nature. In complex food matrices, it is not always easy to establish relationships 12 between the individual chemical stimuli concentration, physiological perception 13 and consumer reaction. Consumers' responses to food are not only based on 14 the sensory characteristics of the product and on their physiologica...

Studying biological processes in vitro requires faithful and successful reconstitution of the in vivo extracellular matrix (ECM) microenvironment. However, the physiological basis behind in vitro studies is often forgotten or ignored. A number of diverse cell-ECM interactions have been characterized throughout the body and in disease, reflecting the heterogeneous nature of cell niches. Recently...