Using a multimodel inference approach, the most relevant field-level and landscape context factors explaining the simultaneous variability of bird, carabid and weed species richness were identified and interpreted in a low-intensity cereal farming system in central Spain. Weed species richness was negatively influenced by sowing density, herbicides and surroundingmean field size. Carabid specie...

Benzyladenine (BA) treatment was found to induce chloroplast DNA (ctDNA) synthesis after it had stopped in primary leaves of light-grown intact bean plants (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). The leaves were treated with BA from 7 days after sowing. Chloroplasts were isolated and the ctDNA content per chloroplast was determined. Chloroplast division occurred until 13 days after sowing in untreated leaves....

 Homand Absard Rangeland Research Station is located 70 km northeast of tehran and 15 km southeast of Damavand with an altitude of 1972 m a.s.l., an average annual rainfall of 333 mm,  and a cold semi-steppe climate. In order to compare  the seed production of Vicia villosa under different cultivation seasons and methods, the seeds were initially collected from natural habitats similar to the m...

to assess the interaction effects of weeds, sowing rate, and n splitting on dryland wheat yield, field experiments were conducted in two years (2007 and 2009) at the college of agriculture in shiraz university. the treatments were replicated four times and analyzed as a split- split plot in a randomized complete block. the weedy and weed free were treated as the main plots, the wheat sowing rat...

To assess the suitability of Leguminous species in rice intercropping systems, physiological and morphological characteristics of Crotalaria juncea, Cajanus cajan, Mucuna pruriens var. cochinchinensis, Calopogonium mucunoides, Aeschynomene histrix and Stylosanthes hamata were determined in monoculture. C. cajan and S. hamata were selected and intercropped with two upland rice cultivars (WAB56-5...

Seed was collected from a sweetgum tree in Washington County, Miss., in the fall of 1964 and stored at 35° to 40° F. for 4 months. Prior to sowing, the seed was stratified moist for 30 days at the same temperature. About 4 inches of loose silt loam was placed in 4inch clay pots. The soil was settled by sprinkling lightly with water and then leveled. Fifty seeds were placed in each pot and cover...