The plant hormone jasmonate has been implicated in male fertility in Arabidopsis. Recent studies have identified the enzyme required for a critical step of jasmonate synthesis in anthers and shown that this enzyme really is required for male fertility.

The aim of this study was to identify the effect of Spermine and Salicylic acid on several growth parameters, such as shoot length, shoot fresh and dry weights, amount of protein and carbohydrate, of Badami and Qazvini pistachio cultivated variety under copper stress. The experiment design was completely randomized with three replicates per treatment and four levels of copper (o.5, 30, 45, 60 µ...

Plants have physical and chemical mechanisms for defense from attack by animals. Phytochemical defenses that protect plants from attack by insects include antifeedants, insecticides, and insect growth regulators. Phytochemical options exist by which plants can modulate the fertility of the other major group of plant predators, vertebrate herbivores, and thereby reduce cumulative attacks by thos...

The two invasive mosquito species in Indonesia are Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus. These mosquitoes a serious nuisance to humans also the primary vectors of several foreign pathogens, such as dengue, Zika, chikungunya viruses. Efforts must be made reduce possibility bites potential for disease transmission. Given invasion these species, this approach should considered part an integrated strat...

the effects of sucrose and some regulators on freezing tolerance in chickpea studied. four weeks in vitro explants were cultured in three different ms media without growth regulators and with normal level of sucrose (30 gl-1) (a), without growth regulators and with reduced sucrose (10 gl-1) (b) and medium supplemented with lmg gl-1 bap and 0.1 mgi1 iba and with 30 gi-1sucrose (c) for two weeks....

The Key Laboratory of Plant Cell Engineering and Germplasm Innovation, Ministry of Education, School of Life Science, Shandong University, 27 Shandanan Road, Jinan, Shandong 250100, People’s Republic of China (Y.Z., W.D., N.Z., X.A., M.W., G.X.); and Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Phytohormones and Growth Development, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Crop Germplasm Innovation and Utiliza...

The plant hormone auxin has long been known to play a pivotal role in vascular patterning and differentiation. But auxin is not the whole story: recent genetic analyses have identified additional factors required for vascular patterning, one of them involving sterols.