in this study, the effect of drought stress on morphological and physiological characteristics of wheatgrass and tall fescue was investigated in a factorial-split plot in time arrangement based on a completely randomized design with three replications. after turf establishment, half pots were exposed to drought stress and the half other were completely irrigated. based on the results tall fescu...

Plant phenology is a sensitive indicator of the effects of global change on terrestrial ecosystems and controls the timing of key ecosystem functions including photosynthesis and transpiration. Aerial drone imagery and photogrammetric techniques promise to advance the study of phenology by enabling the creation of distortion-free orthomosaics of plant canopies at the landscape scale, but with b...

The present study was conducted to investigate the Bergenia ciliata (Haw.) Sternb. (Family: Saxifragaceae) for pharmacognostic study including macroscopical and microscopical observations, leaf surface features, Scanning Electron Microscopy and Fluorescence characters. The macroscopy revealed that rhizome was brown in color, hard in fracture, pleasant in odor and astringent in taste. Leaf was c...

WequantiÞed thedensity-dependent effects of herbivory by thepsyllidBoreioglycaspis melaleucae Moore on the senescence of expanding and fully expanded leaves from two chemical variants (chemotypes) of the invasive tree Melaleuca quinquenervia (Cav.) S. T. Blake. Foliar chlorophyll content (OD) and percent nitrogen were not inßuenced by leaf age classes and chemotypes. In contrast, increases in t...

This experiment was conducted to measure the effects of olive leaf powder on performance, egg yield, egg quality and yolk cholesterol level of laying hens. A total of 120 Lohmann Brown laying hens of 22 weeks old were used in this experiment. The birds were fed on standard layer diets containing 0, 1%, 2%, or 3% olive leaf powder for 8 weeks. Egg weight and yield were recorded daily; feed intak...

Food, drugs, dyes, extracts, and minerals are all made up of complex elements, utilizing unidimensional chromatography to separate them is inefficient insensitive. This has sparked the invention several linked methods, each with distinct separation principles affinity for analyte interest. Multidimensional consists combination multiple techniques, great benefits at level efficiency, peak capaci...

In order to improve the recognition accuracy of cucumber diseased image, a new method based on image preprocessing and extraction of texture feature had been proposed, which making full use of color information included in cucumber image. At first, vector median filter for color images was applied to remove noise, and then chromaticity moments were extracted as texture feature. Experimental res...

Many arthropod species have evolved to thrive only on the leaves of a particular species of plant, which they must be capable of finding in order to survive accidental displacement, developmental transitions or the changing of the seasons. A number of studies have tested whether such species select leaves to land or oviposit on based on their color, shape or size. Unfortunately, many studies di...

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