the west of esfahan province, iran, is one of the most important agricultural areas throughout the country due to the climate variability and life-giving water of zayanderood river. rice is one of the major and economic crops in this area. the most important climatic elements in agricultural activities which should be considered include temperature, relative humidity, precipitation and wind. so...

The present study was conducted to investigate the efficiency of hormonal pretreatment on increasing germination and early growth of seedling in the Seed Technology Laboratory of Shahed University in 2015 as a factorial experiment, adopting a completely randomized design with 4 replications. The treatments were: 5 levels of IAA (indole-3-acetic acid) namely, zero, 0.1, 0.5, 1 and 1.5 mg/L and 5...

Ferulago angulata (Schlecht) Boiss is one of the valuable and endemic medicinal plants of Iran, which is of great importance due to the source of terpenoid compounds and antimicrobial properties. In current study, the effects of different concentrations of salicylic acid and yeast extract in cell suspension culture of F.angulata on expression pattern of the HMGR and GPPS genes (involved in terp...

Increasing the tolerance of plants to biotic and abioticts stresses is a important and debatable subject. Selenium can play a role in mitigating the effects of stress. For this purpose, a factorial experiment was conducted in a completely randomized design with two treatments, cadmium chloride including two levels (0 and 10 mg /kg) in soil and sodium selenate involved three levels (0, 500 and 1...

Fariba Amini*, Zohreh Ganbarzadeh and Mehri Askari * Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Arak University, Arak 38156-8-8349, Iran (Received: 10 September 2012 Accepted: 4 May 2013) Abstract: Salinity is an environmental stress and is the main limiting factor in the efficiency of agriculture products in the world. Salsola arbuscula is a halophyte plant and resistant to ...