abstract in this study, two wild iranian crocus species (crocus speciosus and crocus cancellathus) were examined using 16 morphological characters and 13 issr primers on 250 and 25 plant samples, respectively. the highest and lowest coefficient of variations were belonged to the thickness of the petals (71.25%) and the leaf length (15.08%), respectively. cluster analysis based on morphological ...

two fungal species glomus mosseae and glomus intraradices as well as meloidogyne javanica nematode were used in order to evaluate the effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on control of different populations of root-knot nematode in tomato. a greenhouse test was established as factorial experiment based on completely randomized design with 8 treatments and 4 replicates followed by mycorrhizal...

A thermodynamic analysis of an operational 315 MW supercritical steam power plant (SPP) using the actual data is performed to assess the plant performance and identify the sites of energy losses and exergy destructions in each component of the plant. Various performance parameters such as component energy and exergy efficiencies, energy loss rate, exergy destruction rate, improvement potential ...

Top-down control of prey by predators are magnified in productive ecosystems due to higher sustenance of prey communities. In soil micro-arthropod food webs, plant communities regulate the availability of basal resources like soil microbial biomass. Mixed plant communities are often associated with higher microbial biomass than monocultures. Therefore, top-down control is expected to be higher ...

Dolomite [CaMg(CO3)2] is an intolerable impurity in phosphate ores due to its MgO content. As high grade phosphate reserves become depleted, the need to develop a cost effective method for the removal of dolomite from high-MgO phosphate ores becomes increasingly important. The jigging process has been investigated as a method for the beneficiation of high-MgO sedimentary phosphate ores. A labor...

Background Image-based high-throughput phenotyping technologies have been rapidly developed in plant science recently and they provide a great potential to gain more valuable information than traditionally destructive methods. Predicting plant biomass is regarded as a key purpose for plant breeders and ecologist. However, it is a great challenge to find a predictive biomass model across experim...