Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) is one of valuable agricultural and industrial crops. Studying most important traits of tobacco is difficult because of quantitative nature that are controlled by multiple genes and affected by environmental factors. Among various methods for the study of quantitative traits, association mapping which utilize phenotypic and DNA markers information is one of the ef...

 Aim and Background. Since chemical control of corn common smut disease to be unsuccessful (that its agent is Ustilago maydis), screening of resistance hybrids to smut disease is necessary for maize breeding.  Materials and Methods. In this study, 89 single crosses hybrids including 60 single crosses derived from hybridization of 20 S6 inbred lines as female parents and 3 S6 commercial elit tes...

Background and purpose: Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation may be one of the best treatment options for some patients with hematological malignancies. The process of stem cell homing in the bone marrow and the production and proliferation of denovo cell populations is called engraftment and could be considered as one of the key factors in the success of stem cell transplantation...

Determining the relationships between morphological traits is very important in plant breeding. For this purpose, path analysis and biplot analysis are among the most effective statistical methods. To study the morphological traits affecting faba bean seed yield, 12 introduced faba bean genotypes were studied under the influence of 3 concentrations of gibberellic acid based on split plot in a r...

     Confectionery sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) is one of the valuable crops which less is known about its variability. Fifty sunflower populations have been gathered from different regions of Iran and evaluated for agro-morphological traits in completely randomized design with 10 repetitions under pot conditions. The twenty traits including days from planting to flowering, days from planti...