Hypoglycemic effect is an efficient means to modulate elevated blood glucose levels in patients with diabetes. We found that the extract of lotus plumule (the germ of Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn. seed) showed potent glucose uptake enhancement activity against L6 myotubes, which results in a hypoglycemic effect. This activity was further investigated, and an active constituent was identified as a si...

Magnetic field  improved germination parameters. The germination of Catharanthus roseus seeds is lost under salinity conditions. The effect of different strengths of magnetic field and exposure durations on the germination of C. roseus seeds under salinity conditions (19 mS cm-1) were investigated. The experiment was conducted  with factorial arrangement based on a completely randomized design ...

Abstract An insect-pathogen fungus called Beauveria bassiana (Balsamo) Vuill. is employed as a biological control for variety of insect pests. B. not only acts an entomopathogen, directly infecting and killing pests, but it also has the ability to live endophyte on plants, colonize plant tissues, consequently boost growth. This research was undertaken find out whether can cabbage what impact se...

Indigofera gozoll agribun is a legume tree plant that has high nutritional quality as animal feed. However, it still problem with the low seed quality. This study aimed to evaluate relationship between pod length and of seeds. research was designed in completely randomized design five treatments size four replications, namely: P1 (3.5 cm), P2 (4 P3 (4.5 P4 (5 cm) P5 (5.5 cm). The parameters obs...

Allelopathy is a concept that applied in weed management to minimize extensively the reliance on herbicide agriculture. The allelopathic potential of Acalypha wilkesiana, Centrosema pubescens and Phyllanthus amarus Amaranthus cruentus Corchorus olitorius were investigated. Different concentrations leaf aqueous extracts A. C. P. determine their effect under laboratory conditions. profiling phyto...

to study the effects of sowing dates on seed germination and on seed vigor of 12 spring rapeseed cultivars, an experiment was performed in years 2005-2006. during the first year, 12 cultivars of spring rapeseed were planted in the research field of seed and plant improvement institute, karaj, iran. during the second year, standard germination test was conducted to study the performance of the s...

It was evaluated the damage caused by Bruchus pisorum on the germination ability of pea forage cultivars. Result of damage in seeds with parasitized larva was a significant decrease of the germination by 16.4% percentage points, the length and weight of primary radicle by 16.8 and 24.5%, the length and weight of plumule by 12.3 and 14.1%, the vigor index of primary radicle and plumule by 32.5 a...