the wild pistachio, pistacia atlantica subsp. mutica, is belonged to mountain of irano-turanian region, and distributed in northwest, northeast, center, east and south of iran. the sexual identification mechanism of this species is unknown and denotation of gender is impossible until flowering. in this study sex ratio of populations of this dioecious shrub was evaluated by several hypothesis co...

Transgenic potato plants (Solanum tuberosum cv. Desirée) with an antisense repression of the chloroplastic triosephosphate translocator were compared with wild-type plants. Plants were grown in chambers with either an atmosphere with ambient (400 mu bar) or elevated (1000 mu bar) CO2. After 7 weeks, the rate of CO2 assimilation between wild-type and transgenic plants in both CO2 concentrations ...

Three transgenic Indian mustard [Brassica juncea (L.) Czern.] lines were tested under field conditions for their ability to remove selenium (Se) from Se- and boron-contaminated saline sediment. The transgenic lines overexpressed genes encoding the enzymes adenosine triphosphate sulfurylase (APS), gamma-glutamyl-cysteine synthetase (ECS), and glutathione synthetase (GS), respectively. The APS, E...

Hybridization between crops and their weedy or wild relatives is an area of concern because the widespread use of genetically engineered crops may allow novel, bene®cial transgenes to enter nearby populations. We compared ®tness components of wild Cucurbita pepo from Arkansas, USA, with wild±crop hybrids derived from yellow squash (a cultivar of C. pepo with transgenic resistance to two viruses...

The Populus sucrose (Suc) transporter 4 (PtaSUT4), like its orthologs in other plant taxa, is tonoplast localized and thought to mediate Suc export from the vacuole into the cytosol. In source leaves of Populus, SUT4 is the predominantly expressed gene family member, with transcript levels several times higher than those of plasma membrane SUTs. A hypothesis is advanced that SUT4-mediated tonop...

BACKGROUND Agave inaequidens and A. hookeri are anciently used species for producing the fermented beverage 'pulque', food and fiber in central Mexico. A. inaequidens is wild and cultivated and A. hookeri only cultivated, A. inaequidens being its putative wild relative. We analysed purposes and mechanisms of artificial selection and phenotypic divergences between wild and managed populations of...

a significant portion of the world’s cultivated land is affected by salinity that reduces crop productivity in these areas. breeding for salt tolerance is one of the important strategies to overcome this problem. recently, genetic engineering is becoming a promising approach to improving salt tolerance. in order to improve the yield performance of canola in saline soils, we transformed canola w...

wild jujube, ziziphus lotus, is a multipurpose xerophytic shrub of the rhamnaceae family widely distributed in arid and semi-arid regions of tunisia, where it occupies most soil types. the fruit is the edible part of the plant by local population. the reintroduction of this shrub requires the control of its multiplication in response to water shortage. this study aims to evaluate growth and wat...

Plants were obtained with novel O(2)-resistant photosynthetic characteristics. At low CO(2) (250-350 muL CO(2) L(-1)) and 30 degrees C when O(2) was increased from 1% to 21% to 42%, the ratio of net CO(2) uptake in O(2)-resistant whole plants or leaf discs compared to wild type increased progressively, and this was not related to stomatal opening. Dihaploid plantlets regenerated from anther cul...