BACKGROUND Mescal production is the main economic activity associated to agaves in Mexico, which involves 53 species mostly harvested from forests. The increasing mescal demand has influenced risk in both agave populations and mescal production, but other social and ecological factors also intervene. We hypothesized that the greater the risk the greater the complexity of management responses; o...

Field experiments were conducted over 4 years to evaluate the effects of antitranspirant (Folicote,Aquatrollnc., Paulsboro, N.J.) and polyacrylamide gel (SuperSorb, Aquatrollnc., Paulsboro, N.J.) on early growth oftransplanted muskmelon grown either protected by tree windbreaks or exposed to seasonal winds. A randomized complete block design (RCBD) with split plot arrangement was used with wind...

abstract water is a main factor in production of crops. optimizing the usage of water is essential especially in iran which is a dry and semi-dry country. investigation on the effect of different irrigation treatments on chilo suppressalis walker (lep.: crambidae), as the most destructive rice pest, can be an efficient strategy in optimizing usage of water in integrated crop management (icm). i...

the main method of rice planting in iran is transplanting. due to poor mechanization of rice production, this method is laborious and costly. the other method is direct seeding in wet lands which is performed in the one third of rice cultivation area of the world. the most important problem in this method is high labor requirement of weed control. in order to compare the different rice planting...

Abstract
 Fonio respond differently at different sowing conditions. Field experiment was conducted to assess the of fonio grain yield and its components when subjected seeding methods under rainfed condition during growing season 2021 2022. The Randomized complete block design with three replications adopted for experiment. result revealed that planting (dibbling, drilling broadcasting tra...

The comprehensive relationship of backscattering coefficient (σ 0 ) values from two current X-band SAR sensors (COSMO-SkyMed and TerraSAR-X) with canopy biophysical variables were investigated using the SAR images acquired at VV polarization and shallow incidence angles. The difference and consistency of the two sensors were also examined. The chrono-sequential change of σ 0 in rice paddies dur...

Combinations of fibroblasts (Fbs) and corresponding epithelial cells have been widely used in many tissues, such as the skin and breast tissues, to augment tissue repair and remodeling. Recently, a large amount of new data has indicated that nerve Fbs play critical roles in Schwann cells (SCs) and axons in vitro. However, little is known regarding the effects of co-transplanting nerve Fbs and S...