sclerotinia stem rot (ssr), caused by sclerotinia sclerotiorum, is believed as the most important disease of canola (brassica napus) in iran. temporal analysis of the disease epidemics was carried out by evaluating ssr in 80 fields in four locations of: gorgan, aliabad, kalaleh and gonbad in golestan province during 2006 and 2007. scouting of the fields to record disease incidence (i) and disea...

grain yield loss in rice (oryza sativa l.) caused by blast disease, magnaporthe grisea (hebert) barr, is a major concern of rice growers worldwide. blast is considered as the most injurious disease of rice in iran, resulting in severe loss especially to susceptible rice cultivars. in order to assess yield loss caused by blast pathogen and develop an appropriate model, different disease onsets a...

The occurrence of viral co-infection is a common phenomenon in cultivated and native plant species and can alter the dynamics of virus infection. In this study, disease progress was examined in single and mixed infections of Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) and Bean yellow mosaic virus (BYMV) by measuring the rate of symptom development, disease severity and area under disease progress curve on infe...

The purpose of this research paper is to develop a framework to understand the consumer’s preference affecting variables and consumer’s perception choice in telecommunication service providers in India. The present study use a hybrid approach to access the relative efficiency based on fuzzy AHP and DEA model. The fuzzy AHP is used to determine weights of the consumer’s preference as criteria an...

septoria tritici blotch is an important wheat disease in many areas of the world including iran's warm, humidregions. in this study, crosses were made between resistant breeding line bobwhite#1/fengkang andcommercial cultivars moghan3, koohdasht, tajan and morvarid, and derived f1, f2, bc1 and bc2 generations were used to determine the genetic control of necrosis, pycnidia traits and the area u...