in order to investigate effective morpho-physiological traits related to salinity resistance, and their relationship with grain yield as well as study of salinity tolerance and susceptibility indices in 169 barley recombinant inbred lines, a  population of barley derived from a cross between arigashar and igri, this experiments were carried out using alpha lattice design with two replications d...

The study was designed to evaluate the effect of ethanol extract of Moringa oleifera and Cajanus cajan leaves on lipid profiles in alloxan induced diabetic albino rats. Diabetes was induced in three groups of rats, one group was not treated while two groups were treated orally with M. oleifera and C. cajan ethanol leaf extracts at 200,400 and 800 mg/kg body weight once for seven days respective...

Glutamine synthetase and asparagine synthetase are two master enzymes involved in ammonium assimilation in plants. Their roles in nitrogen remobilization and nitrogen use efficiency have been proposed. In this report, the genes coding for the cytosolic glutamine synthetases (HvGS1) and asparagine synthetases (HvASN) in barley were identified. In addition to the three HvGS1 and two HvASN sequenc...

Fungal symbionts that colonize leaf tissue asymptomatically (endophytes) can alter the foraging behaviour of leaf-cutting ants, and decrease the productivity of this herbivore’s mutualistic fungal cultivar, Leucocoprinus gongylophorus. This negative effect of endophytes on the ant’s cultivar could be the result of direct fungalefungal interaction or indirect reductions in the quality of leaves,...

Assume that we are given a rooted tree with n leaves. All leaves have the same distance ` from the root and all nodes except for the leaves have three children. A problem instance consists of such a tree and a boolean value for each leaf. The value of each inner node is defined as the majority value of its children. Initially, the values of inner nodes are not given. The objective is to compute...

Antibacterial activity of aqueous and ethanol leaf extracts of Cadaba trifoliata was evaluated by cup plate method against bacterial strains such as Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis, Acinetobacter, Enterobacter aerogenes, Erwinia and Escherichia coli. The ethanol extract of the leaves demonstrated a high degree of activity against all the tested bacterial strains except Erwinia and Acin...

Plant leaves exist in a dizzying array of shapes and sizes, from the tiny duckweed (Lemna minor) to the enormous Raphia palm (Raphia farinifera), and the simpleleaved poplar (Populus sp) to the deeply lobed oak (Quercus spp) or the delicate compound-leaved Mimosa spp. Class I KNOTTED-like (KNOX1) genes have been found to play an important role in the development of compound leaves in many vascu...

Interactions among the component members of different symbioses are not well studied. For example, leaf-cutting ants maintain an obligate symbiosis with their fungal garden, while the leaf material they provide to their garden is usually filled with endophytic fungi. The ants and their cultivar may interact with hundreds of endophytic fungal species, yet little is known about these interactions...