In the present study, seed surface ornamentations in 31 species (34 populations) and the capsule surface sculpturing in five species of the genus Scrophularia L. distributed in Iran were examined using Scanning Electronic Microscopy. Based on the published seed surface terminologies, all examined seeds show the reticulate pattern with scalariform inner ornamentations. However, there is enough b...

Callistosporium luteo-olivaceum collected from Mediterranean region of Türkiye is identified based on morphological characters and combined dataset nuclear ribosomal ITS LSU sequences. new to the country’s mycobiota it first report this species relict endemic Liquidambar orientalis forest. Description macro micromorphological characters, colour photograph its natural habitat line-drawings micro...

microbial calcium carbonate, by bridging sand particles, can play an important role in sand dune stability. a study was carried out on the cementation of sand grains and infilling of pore spaces by caco3. two bacterial species (sporosarcina pasteurii and sporosarcina ureae), three reactant concentrations (0.5, 1 and 1.5m), and six reaction times (12, 24, 48, 96, 192 and 288 hours) were tested i...

background: nepeta menthoides boiss & buhse is a species from lamiaceae family. it is used as a herbal medicine with common name “ostokhodus” in iranian traditional and folk medicine but there is not enough information about its quality and quantity control methods. objective: in this study we use micromorphological and phytochemical evaluations for qualitative and quantitative control of n. me...

Wetting and drying (W-D) cycles are responsible for significant changes in soil structure. Soil often undergoes irreversible affecting infiltration solute retention through W-D cycles. Thus, it becomes essential to evaluate how soils under natural conditions altered by This study analyzed two non-cultivated (from grassland secondary forest) Oxisols (Typic Hapludox Rhodic Hapludox) of different ...

1 2 The common development of vegetation and soil is a central question of plant succession. We 3 asked whether places where aerial parts of woody vegetation die and accumulate on the 4 ground (zones of destruction or 'micro-chablis') played a role in the successional 5 development of vegetation patches on tropical inselbergs and whether causes could be 6 inferred from the analysis of the organ...

At Uan Afuda, and other Early Holocene sites of the Acacus mountains, in the Libyan Sahara, dung layers and plant accumulation are a major, but repeatedly neglected, feature of hunter-gatherer communities. To understand the formation and meaning of such features, a multidimensional analysis has been undertaken, combining micromorphological, palynological, botanical, archaeozoological, and archa...