This investigation was carried out with the aim of determining the effect of polyethylene glycol 6000 (PEG; 0, 3%, 6% and 9% w/v) treatment on six cultivars of Medicago sativa. PEG treatment significantly decreased the germination index in cultivars of Isfahani, Hamedani, Bami, Baghdadi, Yazdi and Ghare-Medicago, with the highest reduction in Ghare-Medicago and Hamedani cultivars by about 50% a...

Immanuel Kant noted this approach would not be suitable for understanding complex systems such as an organism. He said there would never be a " Newton of the blade of grass " : because the blade of grass is more than the sum of its parts, complete knowledge of the parts list will not necessarily be predictive of the behavior of the whole. Fortunately, we don't have to resort to a vitalistic exp...

Background and Aims: Trichomonas vaginalis is a flagellated protozoa that is associated with vaginitis, cervicitis, urethritis and other vaginal disorders. Current study aimed to evaluate the anti-Trichomonas activity of Medicago sativa and Satureja hortensis, in vitro. Materials and Methods: Ethanolic extract of Medicago sativa and Satureja hortensis were obtained by rotary evaporator. anti-T...

Data format: BayesPref requires that data be provided as an object class matrix. The data provided in "YGGVdata" is oviposition preference data for Lycaeides populations from Yuba Gap, CA and Gardnerville, NV. Here, the populations have been coded numerically. That is, Yuba Gap is population 1 and Gardnerville is population 2. The abbreviations for plant species are as follows: Ast, Astragalus ...

Data format: BayesPref requires that data be provided as an object class matrix. The data provided in "YGGVdata" is oviposition preference data for Lycaeides populations from Yuba Gap, CA and Gardnerville, NV. Here, the populations have been coded numerically. That is, Yuba Gap is population 1 and Gardnerville is population 2. The abbreviations for plant species are as follows: Ast, Astragalus ...

The rhizobia present in a single arid region Tunisian soil that nodulate Medicago laciniata and Medicago truncatula were compared. All isolates, 40 from each host, were Sinorhizobium meliloti based on 16S rRNA polymerase chain reaction restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) patterns and subsequent confirmation by sequence analysis of the 16S rRNA genes in four representatives from ...

BACKGROUND The ability to induce flowering on demand is of significant biotechnological interest. FT protein has been recently identified as an important component of the mobile flowering hormone, florigen, whose function is conserved across the plant kingdom. We therefore focused on manipulation of both endogenous and heterologous FT genes to develop a floral induction system where flowering w...

Biodiversity of the genus Medicago in Iran was studied. Distribution of two perennial species M. sativa and M. lupulina mainly conforms to the mountainous regions of Iran. Among the other annual species of this genus, M. rigidula has the most similar distribution to the distribution of perrenial species in mountainous regions. Most species of Medicago (apart from M. sativa and M. lupulina) are ...