in order to investigate the responses of sardari wheat ecotypes to drought stress, 12 spikes of sardari wheat were selected from different regions of kurdistan province and planted as head to row. in the second year, a split- plot factorial field experiment was conducted. in this experiment water stress and irrigation were considered as the levels of main factor and 12 sardari wheat ecotypes al...

With ongoing climate change, many plant species may not be able to adapt rapidly enough, and some conservation experts are therefore considering to translocate warm-adapted ecotypes to mitigate effects of climate warming. Although this strategy, called assisted migration, is intuitively plausible, most of the support comes from models, whereas experimental evidence is so far scarce. Here we pre...

fennel (foeniculum vulgare mill.) benefits from a lot of useful medicinal properties. iran is known as one of the main producers of fennel. in spite of high medicinal values, fennel’s cultivation is not economically feasible, mainly due to its low yield. it grows wild in different areas in iran from where diverse ecotypes have evolved. genetic variance and heritability estimates of traits in a ...

The aim of this study is to assess the reliability of different artificial neural networks as tools for identifying taxonomic or ecotypic subdivisions in European water voles (genus Arvicola). Self-organizing maps show that taxa at subspecies or species level are organized along morphological gradients correlated with ecotypes (from extreme forms of fossorial Arvicola terrestris to strictly aqu...

1. The evolution of increased competitive ability (EICA) hypothesis proposes that exotic plants often become invasive because they have evolved reduced allocation to defence and increased allocation to growth and reproduction in response to low herbivore loads. Previous studies with Chinese tallow tree Sapium sebiferum support EICA predictions of invasive North American ecotypes displaying rapi...

in order to study water deficit tolerance in thymus daenensis subsp. daenensis ecotypes, seeds of eight ecotypes were collected from different locations. seedling are produced in greenhouse, and then transferred to field as an experiment of split plot design based on rcbd with three replicates. three irrigation treatments (normal irrigation, prevention of irrigation at the start of flowering an...