drought stress is the most important factor that reduces yield in crops including chickpea and causes some changes in seed composition. this study was performed in order to evaluate the effects of drought stress and starter nitrogen fertilizer on four cultivars of chickpea. experiment was performed in a split-factorial using randomized complete block design with three replications. drought stre...

plants are always exposed to vast aspects of either environmental biotic or abiotic stresses and those stresses affecting the plant growth and therefore crop production. molecular and physiological mechanisms influence plant resistance to environmental stresses, therefore the identification of these mechanisms can be an important step in challenging the damages. in this study, plant physiologic...

Heating in honey processing can inhibit fermentation, crystallization, and the growth of microorganisms, such as bacteria. However, effect heating process on properties its antibacterial activity has not been further studied. Therefore, this study, both Apis Trigona species from Bogor, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Sumatra, Lombok, were tested. The honey, including water content, acidity, reducing suga...

In contrast to previous studies of rapid cold-hardening (RCH), which have investigated the responses of insects maintained under 'summer conditions' (20 degrees to 25 degrees C), this study focuses on the ability of low-temperature acclimated insects to undergo RCH. When the grain aphid Sitobion avenae Fabricus was low-temperature acclimated by rearing for three generations at 10 degrees C, the...

EVERAL authors have interpreted the S adrenal hyperactivity of normal animals exposed to low temperatures (1, 2) and the reduced cold resistance of adrenalectomized animals (3-5), as indications of the importance of the adrenal glands in the acquisition of resistance to low temperatures. However, in studies on acclimation to other types of stressing conditions (6, 7) it has been found that adre...

The larva of the drosophilid fly, Chymomyza costata, is probably the most complex metazoan organism that can survive submergence in liquid nitrogen (-196 °C) in a fully hydrated state. We examined the associations between the physiological and biochemical parameters of differently acclimated larvae and their freeze tolerance. Entering diapause is an essential and sufficient prerequisite for att...

screening of native cultivars and understanding of the mechanisms involved in cold hardiness in grapevines is needed to match cultivars appropriately with growing sites and aid in breeding and selecting cultivars with improved freezing tolerance. in this study cold hardiness of fifteen grapevine (vitis vinifera l.) cultivars were evaluated using tetrazolium stain test and post freezing budbreak...

in semiarid regions of iran, one of the crop production management methods is delayed irrigation after emergence. this is due to simultaneous water requirement of cereal and spring season crops. a field study was conducted in kabootarabad research station to investigate the effect of delayed irrigation on root yield, quality and growth trend using a rcb with four replications. the irrigation tr...

freezing injury is an important limiting factor in the production of pomegranate in iran.the aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of paclobutrazol (pbz) on cold hardiness of pomegranate (punica granatum l.) cv. ‘malas saveh’. different concentrations of pbz including 0 (control), 31, 62, 125 or 250 mg l–1 were sprayed on one-year-old plants in august and the electrolyte leakage o...

We studied the mechanism of cold acclimation of Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus L.) tubers with special reference to the role of the cell wall. During the cold-acclimation process from September to January, the freezing tolerance of tubers increased from -2.8 degrees C to -8.4 degrees C (LT50). By contrast, the isolated protoplasts constitutively showed a consistent high level of free...