A sprouting-resistant and a sprouting-susceptible wheat cultivar were utilized to examine the role of ABA levels and sensitivity responses in wheat embryonic germination. Endogenous embryonic ABA levels were measured in both cultivars throughout grain maturation utilizing a new and sensitive ABA immunoassay. Embryonic ABA levels of each cultivar were similar with the sprouting-susceptible culti...

Safflower is an important, traditional, multipurpose oil crop. This was to investigate the effect of different salinity levels on morphological, physiological, biochemical and antioxidant response of two safflower cultivars (Carthamus tinctorius L. cultivar TSF1 and cultivar SM) differing in salt tolerance. Salinity stress (0.0%, 1.0%, 1.5% and 2.0% of NaCl) was induced to safflower plants afte...

*Introgression of cultivar alleles into wild plant populations via crop-wild hybridization is primarily governed by their fitness effects as well as those of linked loci. The fitness of crop-wild hybrids is often dependent on environmental factors, but less is understood about how aspects of the environment affect individual cultivar alleles. *This study investigated the effects of naturally oc...

The idea of web-based virtual laboratories is not new (Hoffman, 1994; Potter, 1996; Preis 1997). However, this topic has received much attention over the last few years due to the implementation of new teaching technologies in the classroom, and the widespread adoption of the Internet. Currently, a large number of virtual laboratories can be found online. These virtual laboratories cover differ...

Cloud computing emerges as one of the hottest topic in field of information technology. Cloud computing is based on several other computing research areas such as HPC, virtualization, utility computing and grid computing. In order to make clear the essential of cloud computing, we propose the characteristics of this area which make cloud computing being cloud computing and distinguish it from o...

Z. GHADAMPOUR, N. TALEBBEYDOKHTI, M. R. HASHEMI, A. H. NIKSERESHT AND S. P. NEILL Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Shiraz University, I. R. of Iran Email: [email protected] Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Environmental Research and Sustainable Development Center, Shiraz University, I. R. of Iran Dept. of Water Engineering, Shiraz University, I. R. of Iran; S...

We describe a procedure based on the Krawczyk method to compute a verified enclosure for the stabilizing solution of a continuoustime algebraic Riccati equation A∗X + XA + Q = XGX, building on the work of [B. Hashemi, SCAN 2012] and adding several modifications to the Krawczyk procedure. Moreover, we describe a new O(n) direct method for verification, based on a fixed-point formulation of the e...

1 Dynamics of extraclassical surround modulation in three types of V1 2 neurons 3 4 5 6 Yong-Jun Liu, Maziar Hashemi-Nezhad, and David C. Lyon* 7 Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, School of Medicine, University of 8 California, Irvine, CA 92697 9 10 11 *Corresponding author: 12 David C. Lyon 13 Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology 14 School of Medicine 15 University of California 16 Irvine,...

To investigate Fe deficiency tolerance in tomato cultivars, quantification of proteins and genes involved in Fe metabolism and antioxidant mechanisms were performed in "Roggusanmaru" and "Super Doterang". Fe deficiency (Moderate, low and -Fe) significantly decreased the biomass, total, and apoplastic Fe concentration of "Roggusanmaru", while a slight variation was observed in "Super Doterang" c...