1 Faculty member, Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center of Yazd, Iran ABSTRACT. Seed aging is the main problem of seed storage. Changes of enzyme activity and reduction of seedling growth are consequence of seed deterioration. An experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of accelerated aging on germination indexes and enzyme activity of barley seeds. Seeds were incubated in ...

Abstract High-yielding rice cultivars exhibit a great performance in non-saline fields; however, their growth and productivity are greatly reduced salt-affected lands. Humic acid has promising stress-mitigating potential can be effective improving salt tolerance salinity sensitive cultivars. Herein, seeds of Giza 177 (high-yielding but salt-sensitive cultivar) were primed 40 mg/l humic acid, so...

Osmolytes stabilize proteins against denaturation, but little is known about how their stabilizing effect might affect a protein folding pathway. Here, we report the effects of the osmolytes, trimethylamine-N-oxide, and sarcosine on the stability of the native state of barstar as well as on the structural heterogeneity of an early intermediate ensemble, IE, on its folding pathway. Both osmolyte...

SULFORAPHANE PREVENTS ACETAMINOPHEN-INDUCED HEPATIC INJURY IN MICE Robin H. Schmidt 11/29/2011 Sulforaphane (SFN), an isothiocyanate found in cruciferous vegetables, is known to confer antioxidant protection in vivo. Rather than directly reacting with free radicals, however, SFN works by inducing Nrf2, a transcription factor that binds to the promoter regions of several known antioxidant genes ...

The increase of environmental pollutants especially heavy metals derives from human industrial communities. Zinc is one of the natural elements that exist in biotic environment, plants body, and animals in different forms. Zinc has toxic and lethal effects in high concentrations on plants. Also some plants are introduced as accumulators of this element. Therefore, an investigation was carried o...

background and objectives:alzheimer’s disease (ad) is a neurodegenerative disorder. nowadays, many investigations are performed to find new drugs for ad and medicinal plants are considered as one of the most important sources for developing new drugs. according to the role of oxidant agents and acetylcholinesterase enzyme (ache) in ad, plants with antioxidant and ache inhibition properties coul...

Malaysia is one of the main producers duck meat globally with increasing demands. Increasing in production will also increase number by-products such as skin, feet and bones. Pekin (Anas platyrhyncos domestica) famous breeds. Gelatin that was extracted from has shown a potential raw material for bioactive peptide can involve various functions organism physiologically example antioxidant effects...

this study was designed to investigate the effect of p. fluorescens fy32 inoculation on the activities of some antioxidant enzymes and ion concentration of two canola cultivars (sarigol and hyola308) under salinity stress (150 and 300 mm nacl) in the greenhouse condition (fall 2012, dept. of plant breeding and biotechnology, faculty of agriculture, university of tabriz). the experimental design...