Cadmium (Cd), being a highly toxic metal pollutant of soils, it inhibits root and shoot growth and yield production, affects nutrient uptake and homeostasis. It is frequently accumulated by agriculturally important crops and then enters the food chain with a significant potential to impair animals and human’s health. Therefore, a study was conducted to evaluate the effects of various Cd levels ...

objectives: the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of six herbal teas on the color stability of two types of nanohybrid and one microhybrid resin composite.  materials and methods: 70 disc-shaped specimens, 210 in total (7*2mm), were fabricated from each of the following materials in metal mould : tetric n ceram, grandio, gradia direct anterior. specimens were stored in distilled wate...

Figure 1. Antigenotoxic activity of Borago officinalis plant material: (a) blue flowered (BF) and (b) white flowered (WF) plant material expressed as mutation frequency corrected to control. Strength of inhibition on the capability of H2O2 (0.12 M) to induce mutated cells is also shown (Inhibition Percentage in brackets). White columns correspond with tested concentrations of simple treatments,...

Nigella sativa L. (Ranunculaceae) seeds (black cumin) that contain high oil, terpene, protein, alkaloids are an economically important for medicine and food industry. Lack of an efficient DNA isolation procedure is a limiting factor for any molecular studies of these plant. We have used a genomic DNA isolation protocol for Nigella sativa seeds based on a hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB...

present study examines whether there is any beneficial effect of magnetized water application on seedling emergence of maize seeds. water from various sources like tap water, saline water (1,500 ppm), canal water, and sewerage water was treated magnetically by passing it through 235 mt magnetic fields at 3 lpm flow rate. seeds were soaked in water for 24 hours and planted in sand culture. numbe...

in order to determination of optimum quantity of seed pelleting materials due to sugar beet monogerm seed size. this study was carried out in seed technology department during 1997-1998. monogerm cultiver 9597 seed lot (300kg) was firstly graded by 7 round sieves and then 7 rectangle sieves graded each bound. some factors such as germination , monogermity and proportionate seed pelleting materi...

In our study, it was aimed to investigate the antimicrobial effect of 6 plant extracts obtained with methanol by using maceration and soxlet methods from 3 species Nigellla sativa (Black seed), Cuminum cuminum (cumin) Pimpinella anisum (anise) grown in Kırıkkale province liquid microdilution method against Staphylococcus aureus (ATCC 25923) Escherichia coli 25922). All (black cumin), (Cuminum) ...

cadmium (cd), being a highly toxic metal pollutant of soils, it inhibits root and shoot growth and yield production, affects nutrient uptake and homeostasis. it is frequently accumulated by agriculturally important crops and then enters the food chain with a significant potential to impair animals and human’s health. therefore, a study was conducted to evaluate the effects of various cd levels ...

background and objectives: germination and seedling establishment are two critical and important stages during plants growing season. from seed technology viewpoint, germination refers to emergence and development from seed embryo, so that could produce normal seedling. many studies  have been done to determine germination cardinal temperatures and required thermal time for emergence occurrence...