in order to investigate the effects of input intensity on species diversity, composition and density of weeds in corn (zea mays l.), an experiment was conducted based on a randomized complete block design with three replications at the agricultural research station, ferdowsi university of mashhad, iran during the year 2009. treatments included low input, medium input and high input systems. low...

At row 2n in the cellular automaton rule 30, a region of the initial condition reappears on the right side, which causes the automaton to “begin again” locally. As a result, local nested structure is produced. This phenomenon is ultimately due to the property that rule 30 is reversible in time under the condition that the right half of each row is white. The main result of the paper establishes...

In the previous paper of this series, the retention characteristics of 4-methyl sterols were investigated with a view for establishing a systematic relationship between the structure of sterols and their gas chromatographic characteristics. The present report deals an extended study on 6methyl sterols prepared from cholesterol. The retention data for five 6-methyl sterols and for their derivati...

The authors evaluated the effectiveness of ReJeX-iT@ AG-145, Mesurola, activated charcoal, lime, and fipronil to reduce homed lark damage to lettuce seeds and seedlings. In Experiment 1, homed larks consumed significantly more feed mixture (50:50 grains and lettuce seed) than untreated clay-coated lettuce seed in a three-day choice-test. In Experiment 2, where clay-coated lettuce seed was treat...

Many methods are available to monitor nitrogen content of rice during various growth stages. However, this monitoring still requires a quick, simple, accurate and inexpensive technique that needs to be developed. In this study, Tetracam Agriculture Digital Camera (ADC) was used to acquire high spatial and temporal resolution in order to determine the status of nitrogen (N) and predict the grain...

Despite progress in understanding chromatin function, the structure of the 30 nm chromatin fiber has remained elusive. However, with the recent crystal structure of a short tetranucleosomal array, the 30 nm fiber is beginning to come into view.

mihan is a new bread wheat cultivar originated from the cross between iranian cultivar barakat with the chinese cultivar 90-zhong 87 at karaj research station in 1995-96 cropping season. the f1 plants were grown at karaj in 1996-97 cropping season, furthermore f2-f6 populations and regional preliminary yield nursery were evaluated at ardebil agricultural research station during 1997-2003 croppi...

durum wheat due to its quality is an important crop in feeding and economics. saji is a newly released durum wheat cultivar with a mean yield of 2824 kgha-1 which was higher than the two durum wheat (zardak) and bread wheat (sardari) check cultivars in different yield traits conducted during 2000-2008 cropping seasons in iran. its grain yield was 23% and 11% higher than those of zardak and sard...