To evaluate the effect of residue of sulfonylurea herbicides and  wheat residues on the growth and yield of sunflower, a split factorial experiment was conducted based on a randomized complete block design (RCBD) with four replications at the College of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran. The treatments included with and without wheat residues from the tested farm as the main plots, a...

Residues of plant protection products can be nowadays found in almost all samples of fruits as even if their application was carried out with respect to standards of Good Agricultural Practice. The intake of these compounds with food of plant origin may result in various disorders and diseases. Since the use of plant protection agents seems unavoidable, it is necessary to treat contaminated foo...

investigating the decomposition of crop residues using woodborn and soilborn saprophytic fungi this experiment was conduceted to evaluate the effect of some fungi on decomposition of crop residues. crop residues from rice, wheat, cotton, canola and soybean were inoculated with pleurotus ostreatus, phanerochaete chrysoporium, aspergillus niger and trichoderma viride in vitro. after 30 days, hemi...

Plant antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have evolved differently from AMPs from other life forms. They are generally rich in cysteine residues which form multiple disulfides. In turn, the disulfides cross-braced plant AMPs as cystine-rich peptides to confer them with extraordinary high chemical, thermal and proteolytic stability. The cystine-rich or commonly known as cysteine-rich peptides (CRPs) o...

Many pathogen recognition genes, such as plant R-genes, undergo rapid adaptive evolution, providing evidence that these genes play a critical role in plant-pathogen coevolution. Surprisingly, whether rapid adaptive evolution also occurs in genes encoding other kinds of plant defense proteins is unknown. Unlike recognition proteins, plant chitinases attack pathogens directly, conferring disease ...

The incorporation of plant residues into soil not only represents an opportunity to limit soil organic matter depletion resulting from cultivation but also provides a valuable source of nutrients such as nitrogen. However, the consequences of plant residue addition on soil microbial communities involved in biochemical cycles other than the carbon cycle are poorly understood. In this study, we i...

The development and use of many efficient and economical pesticides, since the 1940s, have permitted unprecedented crop and animal protection, and improved public health. Despite the positive effects mentioned above, many problems arose, such as the destruction of other pests in addition to target pests, destruction of natural enemies, pest resistance, and the health hazards caused by pesticide...