in order to evaluate the effects of different levels of water and plant density on yield, yield components, morphological and physiological characteristics of a new corn hybrid (ksc 500), an experiment was carried out in 2006 in karaj area. the experimental design was split plot based on randomized complete blocks design with three replications. main plots were three irrigation levels: 75%, 100...

Artemisia annua became a valuable agricultural crop after the World Health Organization recommended artemisinin as a component of ACT (artemisinin-combination based therapies) for malaria in 2001. A cloned, greenhouse-grown, A. annua (Artemis) subjected to an acidic soil and macronutrient deficit was evaluated for artemisinin production. Lack of lime (L) and macronutrients (N, P, and K) reduced...

1 Soil microbial biomass is a key determinant of carbon dynamics in the soil. Several studies have 2 shown that soil microbial biomass significantly increases with plant species diversity, but it 3 remains unclear if plant species diversity can also stabilize soil microbial biomass in a changing 4 environment. This question is particularly relevant as many global environmental change (GEC) 5 fa...

to identify the high yielding lines with optimal characteristics, 40 recombinant inbred lines derived from a cross between ‘norstar’ (winter wheat) and ‘zagros’ (spring wheat) cultivars were examined using a randomized complete block design with three replications in 2014 at the research station of faculty of agriculture, university of tabriz, iran. the measured characters consisted of peduncle...

The plant at Värnamo feeds about 6 MW electricity to the grid, as well as 9 MW heat to the district heating system in the city of Värnamo, from a total fuel input equivalent to 18 MW. The plant is an important step forward in developing highly efficient and environmentally acceptable technologies based on biomass fuels. The accumulated operating experience per 1999 amounts to about 8 500 hours ...

Natural grassland productivity, which is based on an individual plant's aboveground biomass (AB) and its interaction with herbivores, can obviously affect terrestrial ecosystem services and the grassland's agricultural production. As plant traits have been linked to both AB and ecosystem success, they may provide a useful approach to understand the changes in individual plants and grassland pro...

A plant's performance and interactions with other trophic levels are recorgnized to be contingent upon plant diversity and underlying associational dynamics, but far less is known about the plant traits driving such phenomena. We manipulated diversity in plant traits using pairs of plant and a substitutive design to elucidate the mechanisms underlying diversity effects operating at a fine spati...

The relationship between spatial density and size of plants is an important topic in plant ecology. The self-thinning rule suggests a -3/2 power between average biomass and density or a -1/2 power between stand yield and density. However, the self-thinning rule based on total leaf area per plant and density of plants has been neglected presumably because of the lack of a method that can accurat...

recently the previous caspian ecosystem is in a catastrophic condition which caused changes in the absolute and relative abundance of the commercially important caspian kutum (rutilus frisii kutum) in iranian waters. the paper presents estimates of yield-per-recruit and spawning biomass-per-recruit under various harvest strategies of fmax, f0.1, f30%. it proposes a method for estimating accepta...

We investigated the effects of initial biomass, nutrients, herbivory, and competition with Spirodela polyrhiza (L.) Schleid on Salviniaminima Baker biomass and density. S. minima populationswere subjected to two levels of herbivory (control vs. two adults per plant) from the weevil Cyrtobagous salviniae Calder and Sands and eight levels of competition from S. polyrhiza, while growing in high (5...