In the present study, the effect of different plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) like Azospirillum brasilense and Pseudomonas fluorescens on growth parameters and the production of terpenoid indole alkaloids are investigated in two varieties ‘rosea’ and ‘alba’ of Catharanthus roseus. The production of IAA by the PGPR has taken as main criteria in the selection of PGPRs for the seed and...

Thirty age-matched healthy adult male New Zealand white rabbits (2.0 ± 0.5kg BW) were randomly divided into six groups (four treatment and two control groups). The treatment groups were given intraperitoneal injection of either 0.5ml or 1.0ml liquid extract of abeere seed or the alcoholic extract (w/v) and examined for 14 days. The effect of the seed extracts on the haematological parameters, s...

BACKGROUND Fingermarks are one of the most important and useful forms of physical evidence in forensic investigations. However, latent fingermarks are not directly visible, but can be visualized due to the presence of other residues (such as inorganic salts, proteins, polypeptides, enzymes and human metabolites) which can be detected or recognized through various strategies. Convenient and rapi...

Bald cypress has been retreating in the estuary ecosystem of the Loxahatchee River Watershed in southeastern Florida because of the negative impacts of anthropogenic activities. Seed germination of bald cypress is an important means to increase the arbor population in the vegetation community and accelerate restoration of the wetland ecosystem. The objective of this research was to find an effe...

We proposed an algorithm to improve the precision of top retrieved documents by reordering the retrieved documents in the initial retrieval. To re-order the documents, we first automatically extract key terms and key phrases from top N retrieved documents and generate a document index for each document. Using the standard similarity metrics, a document similarity matrix is generated for these d...

2D vessel segmentation algorithms working on 2D digital subtraction angiography (DSA) images suffer from inhomogeneous contrast agent distributions within the vessels. In this work, we present a novel semi-automatic vessel segmentation method based on local adaptive contrast enhancement. Either a forward projected 3D centerline or a set of manual selected seed points define the vessel branches ...

Chitosan treatment (2-8 mg/mL) of wheat seeds significantly improved seed germination to recommended seed certification standards (>85%) and vigor at concentrations >4 mg/mL, in two cultivars of spring wheat (Norseman and Max), by controlling seed-borne Fusarium graminearum infection. The germination was <80% in the control and >85% in benomyl- and chitosan-treated seeds. Seed-borne F. graminea...

the present study investigated comparatively the impact of two types of input enhancement (i.e. textual vs. compound enhancement) on developing grammar ability in iranian efl setting. sixty-five female secondary high school students were selected as a homogenous sample out of about a 100-member population based on nelson language proficiency test. then, their grammar ability was measured based ...

Background: Blackgram (Vignam ungo L.) is one of the most important legume crops, grown all around world. It used as a vegetable, feed, food and fodder purpose. has lower germination production because its hard outer covering. To improve seedling vigour, priming alters physiological state seed. This change may uniformity, increasing seed vigour or physiology. Primed seeds generate seedlings tha...