to evaluate the effect of drought stress and foliar application of ascorbic acid on the growth and yield parameters of two varieties of sunflower pilot plant in the province of alborz as a split factorial in a randomized complete block design with four replications and treatments include: water stress (s) in three levels (s1) 70 mm evaporation from pan class a, (s2) 110 mm evaporation from pan ...

a pot experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of foliar spray of salicylic acid (0, 50, 100 ppm), ascorbic acid (0, 100, 200 ppm) and thiamine (0, 50, 100 ppm) on vegetative growth, flowering and photosynthetic pigments of marigold (calendula officinalis l.) plants at greenhouse of sb university of kerman, iran. results showed that application of salicylic acid and thiamine increased nu...

It is known that, of all animal species studied, only man, other Primates, and the guinea pig are unable to synthesize ascorbic acid. Results obtained in rats, with radioactive glucose, indicate that ascorbic acid is synthesized by a fairly direct route from glucose (l-3), but no information has been available concerning the rate of synthesis and metabolism of ascorbic acid. Such information wo...

The L-gulono-γ-lactone oxidase gene (Gulo) encodes an essential enzyme in the synthesis of ascorbic acid from glucose. On the basis of previous findings of bone abnormalities in Gulo (-/-) mice under conditions of ascorbic acid insufficiency, we investigated the effect of ascorbic acid insufficiency on factors related to bone metabolism in Gulo (-/-) mice. Four groups of mice were raised for 4 ...

The effect of ascorbic acid on the conversion of dopamine to norepinephrine was investigated in isolated chromaffin granules from bovine adrenal medulla. Ascorbic acid was shown to double the rate of [3H]norepinephrine formation from [3H]dopamine, despite no demonstrable accumulation of ascorbic acid into chromaffin granules. The enhancement of norepinephrine biosynthesis by ascorbic acid was d...

Ascorbic acid has been reported to extend replicative life span of human embryonic fibroblast (HEF). Since the detailed molecular mechanism of this phenomenon has not been investigated, we attempted to elucidate. Continuous treatment of HEF cells with ascorbic acid (at 200 microM) from 40 population doubling (PD) increased maximum PD numbers by 18% and lowered SA-beta-gal positive staining, an ...

Ascorbic acid is catabolized to yield oxalate from carbon atoms 1 and 2 (1, 2) and carbon dioxide from carbon atom 1 in man as well as in other species (3-5). It has also been shown that n-glucuronolactone is converted to ascorbic acid in the human 63. The present studies were designed to determine the n-ascorbic acid metabolic pool size and turnover rate, the fraction of the urinary oxalate wh...

voltammetric techniques have been considered as important methods among the analytical techniques used for the identification and determination of trace concentrations of many biological molecules such as l-ascorbic acid (aa). l-ascorbic acid is an electro-active molecule, though it is difficult to determine its value directly with a majority of electrodes made of carbon and transition metals, ...