Two experiments were conducted to characterize changes associated with ontogenetic aging in coastal Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco) and to identify possible maturation "markers" for this species. In the first experiment (Experiment 1), scions of ages 1, 4 and 9 years were collected from four seed zones in field progeny tests and grafted onto 1-year-old rootstocks. In Experime...

introduction although using animal manures and crop residues as a traditional method for increasing soil fertility and crop yield has a long history but conventional agricultural systems rely on the use of chemical fertilizer due to its immediate availability of nutrients. in many of modern agricultural systems using chemical fertilizers as a fast and easiest way to reduce nutrient deficiency a...

We investigate numerically stationary convection and traveling wave structures of binary fluid mixtures with negative separation ratio in the Rayleigh-Bénard system filled with a porous medium. The bifurcation behavior of these roll structures is elucidated as well as the properties of the velocity, temperature, and concentration fields. Moreover, we discuss lateral averaged currents of tempera...

CONTEXT The musculocutaneous nerve is one of the terminal branches of the lateral fasciculus of the brachial plexus, and is responsible for innervation of the flexor musculature of the elbow and for skin sensitivity on the lateral surface of the forearm. Its absence has been described previously, but its real prevalence is unknown. CASE REPORT A case of absence of the musculocutaneous nerve t...

AIM The topography of the superficial peroneal nerve (SPN) and its terminal branches were studied, with the aim of providing further anatomical details for leg and foot in the Turkish newborn fetuses. MATERIAL AND METHODS Limbs from twenty newborn cadavers were dissected. The course of the SPN on the leg and its terminal branches on the foot were investigated. RESULTS The SP...

Flower production and crop yields are highly influenced by the architectures of inflorescences. In the compound inflorescences of tomato and related nightshades (Solanaceae), new lateral inflorescence branches develop on the flanks of older branches that have terminated in flowers through a program of plant growth known as "sympodial." Variability in the number and organization of sympodial bra...

In order to study the effect of organic fertilizer on shoot yield and essential oil content of lavender, this experiment was conducted in the Research Institute of Forest and Rangelands, Karaj, Iran, in 2013-14. The treatment groups consisted of vermicompost (0, 5, 10 and 15 ton/ha) and cow manure (0, 10, 20 and 30 ton/ha). The experimental design was a factorial experiment based on randomized ...

Many animals move using lateral undulations, but snakes are noteworthy for using this type of locomotion in an unusual diversity of environments, including trees in which both the spacing and orientation of branches vary considerably. Despite branches providing discrete locations for snakes to generate propulsive forces during lateral undulation, the consequences of branch spacing for the locom...

Let A be a noetherian local ring, and let C in PA be a family of curves, flat over A. We showed in an earlier paper how to associate to C a locally free sheaf N on PA, and we showed that two families of curves C,C′ are in the same biliaison class if and only if the corresponding sheaves N,N ′ are pseudoisomorphic (generalization of the theorem Rao). In this paper we show how to find all the fla...

to investigate the effect of dose and applying time of paraquat on soybean weed control, especially wild melon, factorial experiment conducted as a randomized complete block design with four replications in 2009 in dashte naz co. sari-iran. the treatments included different doses of paraquat (0, 1, 1.5, 2 and 2.5 liters per hectare of commercial material) and different growing stages of wild me...