Humic acid is a biochemical constituent of humus and increases root biomass and shoot growth by improving absorption of nutrients. In order to study the effects of humic acid on root and shoot growth and leaf nutrient contents of pistachio seedlings, an experiment was conducted of completely randomized design with five treatments in three replications. In the first step seeds of Pistacia vera c...

Given a rectangle A and a set S of n points in A, the maximum empty rectangle problem is that of finding a largest-area rectangle which is contained in A. has its sides parallel to Ihose ofA. and does Dot contain any of the points in S. This Dote describes an efficient algorithm for solving this problem.

BACKGROUND Wheat straw forms an important, reliable source of lignocellulosic biomass for use in second-generation ethanol production. However, there is limited understanding of the variation in quality of straw from current breeding cultivars, and studies on such variation have generally employed suboptimal pretreatments. There is also a degree of confusion regarding phenotypic characteristics...

There is a growing demand for renewable energy, and sugarcane is a promising bioenergy crop. In Brazil, the largest sugarcane producer in the world, sugarcane plantations are expanding into areas where severe droughts are common. Recent evidence has highlighted the role of miRNAs in regulating drought responses in several species, including sugarcane. This review summarizes the data from miRNA ...

nowadays, tobacco is considered as one of the important world industrial plants. in the present study, for a creation of somaclonal variation, calli were produced on ms medium supplemented by 2 mg/l of naphthalene acetic acid (naa) and then regenerated on ms medium supplemented with 1 mg/l benzyl amino purine (bap) and 0.1 mg/l of naa. to determine correlations among traits and to fit multiple ...

We examined three different-ploidy wheat species to elucidate the development of aboveground architecture and its domesticated mechanism under environment-controlled field conditions. Architecture parameters including leaf, stem, spike and canopy morphology were measured together with biomass allocation, leaf net photosynthetic rate and instantaneous water use efficiency (WUE(i)). Canopy biomas...