in order to study the effect of foliar zinc spraying on photosynthetic pigments and yield of chickpea under water stress conditions, a factorial experiment carried out based on randomized completely block design (rcbd) with three replications in university of mohaghegh ardabili agricultural research station in 2012. the treatments consisted of three levels of irrigation (irrigated at planting, ...

Excess irradiance can reduce the quantum yield of photosynthesis via photoprotective energy dissipation, inactivation or downregulation of PSII. We examined variation in photoprotection as part of a study of adaptive radiation in photosynthetic light responses byHawaiian lobeliads.Wemeasured themaximumefficiencyofPSII (Fv/Fm) and recoveryof Fv/Fm after high light stress in field populations of ...

Mexican lime is one of the commercial citrus cultivars in the world, which is commonly used as a citrus rootstock in the southern regions of Iran. This cultivar is one of the most sensitive citrus cultivars to cold stress and is used as a cold-sensitive plant in many citrus studies. This study aimed to investigate the effect of melatonin (0 and 500 μM), mannitol (0 and 50 μM), acetic acid (0 an...

in order to evaluate of physiological traits, related to drought tolerance, an experiment was carried out in controlled condition. the experiment was conducted to assess the effect of drought stress on photosynthesis, chlorophyll fluorescence and photosynthetic pigments in two tolerant genotypes (mcc392 & mcc877) and two susceptible genotypes (mcc68 & mcc448) were grown in drought stress (25% f...

Microscopy has been a diagnostic tool for TB for over a century, and still currently the most rapid diagnostic method. Standard light microscopy (LM) and fluorescent microscopy (FM) are common methods. The recent development of light emitting diodes (LED), with the ap‐ propriate fluorescent light output for FM and low power consumption, has led to the devel‐ opment of simple, robust LED FM micr...

M odulated 685-nm chlorophyll fluorescence was measured under steady-state conditions in pea leaves adapted to m oderate actinic light. W hen the m easurem ents were perform ed after a short exposure to heat (42 °C) in darkness, the maximal (Fm) and steady-state (Fs) fluorescence levels were dram atically and irreversibly quenched whereas the basic fluorescence F0 rem ained unchanged. C oncom i...

The measurement of carbon isotope discrimination (∆) provides an integrated insight into theresponse of plants to environmental change. To investigate the potential use of ∆ for identifyingshade tolerance in rice, five rice varieties were selected and artificially shaded (53% lightreduction) during the grain-filling period in 2010 and 2011, in Sichuan, China. Shadingtreatment had a significant ...