this study was conducted to evaluate changes in antioxidants, free proline, relative water content and determination of root colonization of four commercial wheat (triticum aestivum l.) cultivars (azar2, darab2, shiraz, and falat) inoculated with the fungus glomus intraradices, under four water regimes of 100, 75, 50, and 25% of field capacity in the year 2010 at the school of agriculture, shir...

the effect of salinity was assessed on the activity of some major antioxidant enzymes i.e., superoxide dismutase (sod), peroxidase (pod), catalase (cat), in the seedlings’ roots or shoots of three winter canola (brassica napus l.) cultivars, colvert (tolerant), symbol (semi tolerant) and agat (susceptible). seedlings were treated with 0 (control), 50, 100 and 150 mm nacl for 24 h in hydropoic c...

ornithine is a non-proteinogenic amino acid, which plays an essential role in the metabolism of plants. regard to the chirality of the molecule, physiological response of the plant cells to its two enantiomers have not been widely investigated yet. in the present study, suspension-cultured tobacco cells were treated with 1 mm of d- and lenantiomers of ornithine in normal conditions as well as u...

to find the protective role of exogenous nitric oxide (no) on salinity-stressed rice seedlings, a crd-based factorial experiment with three replications was conducted in agronomy laboratory of the faculty of agricultural sciences, university of guilan, in 2012. the experimental design consisted of healthy and vigorous seedlings of two rice cultivars, khazar and goohar, the last already known as...

fish larvae experience major cellular and biochemical changes during their early life stages.the aim of the present study was to evaluate alterations in the antioxidant status and values oflipid peroxidation and vitamin c content during the different life developmental stages ofhypophthalmichthys molitrix. eggs and larvae were sampled at fertilization, organogenesis,eyed egg, hatch, active feed...

effects of salinity and drought on growth, contents of proline, malondialdehyde (mda), proteinand activity of antioxidative enzymes were studied in two trigonella species. seeds andexplants of t. foenum-graecum and t. aphanoneura were grown on murashige and skoogmedium (ms) complemented with iso-osmotic concentrations of nacl (0, 100, 150 mm) andmannitol (0, 180, 275 mm). growth and relative wa...

abiotic stresses including salinity are the major limiting factors of growth and crop production worldwide. microbial endophytes as the most important soil microorganisms, by modifying plants at genetical, physiological and ecological levels increase their yield per area unit and provide the possibility of crop production in saline and arid soils or climates with biotic and abiotic stresses. th...

background: exercise can change the release of numerous cytokines and modulate their receptor systems. dietary ω-3 lipids may decrease the levels of inflammatory cytokines and prostaglandins (pgs). therefore, in this study, we investigated the effects of exercise and eicosapentaenoic acid (epa) supplementation, with or without vitamin e, on the blood levels of il-2, tnf-α, catalase, glutathione...

background: since alkaloids are nitrogenous compounds, the availability of nitrogen (n) is expected to play an important role in the biosynthesis and accumulation of alkaloids in plants. objective: this study intended to investigate the nitrogen (n) fertilization and water deficit stress (wds) effects on seed tropane alkaloids elicitation including hyoscyamine (hyo) and scopolamine (sco), and a...