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...

salvia genus has 58 annual and perennial herbaceous species in iran that 17 species are endemic and salvia sahendica boiss & buhse is one of them. in order to investigate the effects of drought stress caused by peg 6000 and salinity stress induced by nacl on germination factors of salvia sahendica, two experiments were carried out based on a completely randomized design with 3 replications. in ...

Several squirrel species excise the embryo of acorns of most white oak species to arrest germination for long-term storage. However, it is not clear how these acorns counter embryo excision and survive in the arms race of coevolution. In this study, we simulated the embryo excision behavior of squirrels by removing 4 mm of cotyledon from the apical end of white oak acorns differing in embryo de...