Ascorbic acid (AA) is not only an important antioxidant, it also appears to link flowering time, developmental senescence, programmed cell death, and responses to pathogens through a complex signal transduction network. The biological activity of AA is defined by its oxidation and subsequent regeneration into the reduced form. Some studies suggest that the total endogenous level of AA influence...

the aim of this research was determination of nutritive value of cressa cretica with gas test method, in vivo digestibility and degradability with nylon bag method in three phenological stages. the amount of crude protein decreased significantly in seeding stage. but the amount of ndf and adf increased in seeding stage. the degradability of dry matter and rapid and slowly degradable fractions d...

Invasive species that are closely related to each other may have similar population dynamics and, therefore, be controlled by targeting life stages. We studied two invasive knapweed species, spotted (Centaurea stoebe subsp. micranthos) and the hybrid meadow complex ( Centaurea × moncktonii ) in New York, USA, determine their individual growth rates (λ) across several sites over three years. Bot...

documenting the production process in agriculture includes providing all information and activities that shows the course of production from seedbed preparation stage to harvest stage. for this purpose, in present investigation all management operations performed from seedbed preparation stage to harvest stage in the studied wheat fields in 2007 and 2008 were recorded through farms survey. in t...

Background: Thymus daenensis is on e of the endemic aromatic species in Iran that its essential oil is used in food and pharmaceutical industries. Objective: In this study, the effects of plant growth stages and distillation methods on essential oil content and thymol percentage of this species were evaluated. Methods: The aerial parts of Th. daenensis were collected in three stages of plan...

Flowering Locus T (FT) can promote flowering in the plant photoperiod pathway and also facilitates vernalization flowering pathways and other ways to promote flowering. The expression of products of the FT gene is recognized as important parts of the flowering hormone and can induce flowering by long-distance transportation. In the present study, many FT-like genes were isolated, and the transg...

Bunning suggested that circadian rhythms provide the basis for time measurement in the photoperiodic responses of plants (2). A classic example is found in Glycine max. L. Merr. (Biloxi soybean), whose flowering response occurs in a rhythmical form having peaks of flowering that were approximately 24 hr apart (6). Recentlv Moore et al. (5) reported that Xanthiuim pensylvanicum did not exhibit a...

in order to investigate the effects of single irrigation amounts at different stages of rapeseed growth on yield and the improvement of water use efficiency and water productivity indices, this experiment was conducted as split plot arranged in a randomized complete block design (rcbd) with three replications during 2002-2003 for rainfed spring rapeseed variety (pf.7015.91= sarigol) at maragheh...