Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus, Cucurbitaceae) is cultivated in various parts of Iran, especially the provinces Fars, Hormozgan, Kerman, Khuzistan and Hamadan. Iran world's third-largest producer watermelon globally (Food Agriculture Organization United Nations, 2016). In a 2021 survey, witches’ broom disease (WBDW) was observed field Darab area (Fars province, Iran). The main symptoms were stem...

Introduction: Beta-thalassemia is the most common hereditary disease in Iran. More than two million carriers of beta-thalassemia live in Iran. Since the Iranian population is a mixture of different ethnic groups, it is necessary to determine the frequency  in the different parts of the country. Materials and Methods: This descriptive study is a cross sectional study with helping by professional...

a study was conducted to determine some biological characteristics of a mudskipper (boleophthalmus dussumieri) such as length, weight frequencies, condition factor and growth parameters of von bertallanfy in the provinces neighboring to the persian gulf, i.e. bushehr and hormozgan, from january 2007 to april 2008.the sampling were carried out using a hand net as well as bare hands. 333 specimen...

abstract in this paper, we modeled the climate of iran for future periods. each period is a 30-years period centered on a year. the range of periods is from 2000 (i.e., 1986-2015) to 2100 (i.e., 2086-2115). this was made using 2 general circulation models (echam4 and hadcm2) and 18 ipcc scenarios. magicc-scengen was used as a tool for downscaling gcm low resolution output data. result of hadcm2...

oligonychus afrasiaticus is a major pest of date palm orchards in iran and middle east countries. effects of amitraz, fenpropathrin, fenpyroximate, fenazaquin, propargite), tetradifon, and hexythiazox were evaluated in southern part of iran. the complete randomized block designed with three replications used on mordarsang, kabkab, barhi, mazafati, and halileh major date varieties cultivated in ...

Background: Many developing countries are facing the problem of rapidly rising death rate from fatal accidents involving motorcycles. Objective: To determine the effect of participation and implementation of the World Health Organization (WHO) Safe Community Programme on death rate from fatal motorcycle accidents. Methods: Motorcycle’ fatal accident data were obtained from forensic medicine dep...

abstract in order to identify of plant parasitic nematodes of rapeseed in isfahan and fars provinces, 208(96 from esfahan and 112 from fars province) soil and root samples were collected from rapeseed fields during 2005-2007. nematodes were extracted from root and soil , then fixed and transferred to glycerin. the nematodes were mounted on slides and examined by light microscope and identified ...

INTRODUCTION It is essential to organize private physicians in urban areas by developing urban family medicine in Iran. Acceptance of this project is currently low among physicians. The present research determined the factors affecting acceptability of the Urban Family Medicine Project among physicians working in the private sector of Mazandaran and Fars provinces in Iran. METHODS This descri...