the expansion of aquaculture in the last 10 years has made it an important source of protein worldwide.  however, increased production, and the culture intensification it carries, results in higher risk of infectious disease due to poor water quality and high stocking densities. disease has several negative effects on fish, which include reduced feed efficiency, impaired growth and death, repre...

the impact of climatic variations on basal area growth of basswood (ba) (tilia americana l.), american beech (be) (fagus grandifolia enrh.), bitternut hickory (bh) (caria cordiformis (wang.) k. koch), largetooth aspen (la) (populus grandidentata michx.), red maple (rm) (acer rubrum l.), red oak (ro) (quercus rubra l.), sugar maple (sm) (acer saccharum marsh.), and white ash (wa) (fraxinus a...

one of the major obstacles of bt production as a biopesticide is its expensive bioprocess and fermentation. therefore, the objective of the present study was to optimize growth condition and develop a low-cost bioprocess for mass production of a native coleopteran-effective bacillus thuringiensis (bt) strain (kh4) based on agricultural wastes, at incubator and batch fermenter level. preliminary...

excessive vegetative growth may bring about improper pollination and consequently lead to reduced fruit set and misshapen fruits. paclobutrazol (pp333) reduces vegetative growth. on the other hand, balanced nutrient uptake at all developmental stages increases fruit quality and yield. an experiment was conducted with the aim of reducing vegetative growth and improving yield of strawberry, selva...

the objective of this study was to determine the inbreeding depression on growth traits in moghani sheep. pedigree information of 8836 animals collected during the years of 1987 to 2006 by moghani breed center in jafar abad moghan, were used for analysis. the base population year was 1988. analysis of the records was performed by asreml software. inbreeding depression was estimated as the regre...

drought is a normal, recurring feature of climate phenomena; it may occur virtually in all climatic regions. the effects of drought accumulate slowly and its impacts are spread over a larger geographical area than other natural hazards. drought is a natural hazard originating from a deficiency of precipitation that result in a water shortage for some activities or some groups and is often assoc...

to study the effects of halopriming and hydropriming in overcoming salt and drought stress in corn (zea mays l.),two experiments were separately conducted at shahrood university of technology. seed treatments consisted ofcontrol (untreated seeds), soaking in distilled water for 32 h (hydropriming), and soaking in 50 mmol solution ofcacl2 for 16 h (halopriming). germination and early seedling gr...

to explore the function of light-harvesting complex protein (lhcp) in arabidopsis growth and development, the leclere and bartel seed collection was screened. in this collection randomly cloned cdnas are expressed under the camv35s promoter. a pale green line has been identified and characterized in more details. analysis of the inserted cdna in the pale green line showed it encodes lhcb1 prote...

the objective of the current study was to estimate the genetic parameters for body weight traits at different ages in iran-black sheep. data collected during a 24-year period (1984-2008) on body weight were used to model the growth trajectory and estimate genetic parameters. studied traits were birth weight (bw), weaning weight at 3 months of age (ww), 6 months weight (6mw), 9 months weight (9m...

chukar partridge raising is a profitable business. new feed additives of plant origin may be an alternative to antibiotic growth promoters. this study was carried out to determine the effect of different levels of pistacia atlantica oil on performance and pathological conditions in chukar partridge. one-day-old chukar partridge chicks were assigned to three dietary treatments of 40 birds each. ...