the aim of this research was to investigate the effect of index species, astragalusammodendron on the associated plants of agropyron tauri and bromus tomentellus fromdifferent aspects in shazand rangeland in southwest of markazi province. the effects ofspecies density and distribution pattern and then index species on the soil properties werestudied. based on the randomized – systematic method,...

a total of 162 species (s) of rotifera belonging to 40 genera and 20 families examined from loktak lake, an important floodplain lake of northeast india (nei), is one of the richest assemblages of the taxon known from the indian sub-region. it merits biodiversity value as ~40.0% and ~62.0% of species recorded from india and nei, respectively. one species is new to india, 23 species are new to m...

background :   vibrio species including v. cholera , v. mimicus , v. parahaemolyticus , and v. vulnificus may cause gastrointestinal diseases after seafood consumption, and wound infections in swimmers and fishermen after exposing to seawater. this study determined the prevalence of the four vibrio species in tonkabon and ramsar recreational beach water (approximately 200 meter far from the pla...

under prolonged diabetic conditions, hba1c is produced from normal hemoglobin (hba0) through a non-enzymatic glycosylation or glycation, a process which enhances the hemoglobin susceptibility to be auto-oxidized to methemoglobin (methb). here we are reporting that the non-enzymatic reaction between fructose and methb (methb fructation) induces significant changes in the globin structure and deg...

there is very little information about the mosquito fauna of mahshahr district. the present study gives an overview of data on the species composition and distribution of mosquitoes in the mahshahr district, khuzestan province, southwest of iran. in order to study the mosquito fauna, the samples were collected from may to november 2012 using dipping and total catch methods from seven village...

fecal samples of 60 turkey poults that showed chronic progressive symptoms like unthriftiness, loss ofweight, diarrhea were collected from the most rural areas with high rate of turkey population in north andwest part of country for intestinal protozoan parasites. according to the morphological characteristics, likeshape, presence or absence of micropyle, and/or polar granule, the 5 different t...

twenty six rhizobium strains were isolated from root nodules of sesbania sesban (l.) merr. collected from different regions of andhra pradesh. all the 26 rhizobium strains produced indole acetic acid (iaa), but maximum amount was produced by only five strains in yeast extract mannitol  (yem) medium supplemented with l-tryptophan. the strains were found to elaborate maximum iaa when fed with 2.5...

the anamorphic fungus genus periconia is word wide in distribution and causes foliar disease on plants mostly in tropical and subtropical regions. this paper presented the description and illustrations of p. palmivora discovered on leaves of phoenix dactylifera (palmae/arecaceae) from terai forest region of uttar pradesh, india. the taxonomic determination was based on morphological characteris...