the dormancy characteristics and optimum conditions for seed germination of alstroemeria ligtu had not been explained. in vitro and in vivo alstroemeria (a. ligtu hybrid) seed germination tests were conducted in a randomized completely design at two different treatments (gibberellic acid (ga3) 0, 100, 200 and 400 mg/l with and without stratification in 5±1oc) in four replications. seeds were pl...

The great economic importance of sugar beet determines the ongoing biotechnological studies conducted worldwide to improve technology obtaining doubled haploids (DHs) using method unpollinated ovule culture in vitro. To induction gynogenesis, we tested effect thidiazuron (TDZ), temperature bud pretreatment, different concentrations sucrose, and culturing on liquid or solid medium. Three genotyp...

Present study aimed for in vitro culture of circinate part of young leaves of D. esculentum which is amongst the leafy vegetables consumed as vegetable by Paniya and Chetti tribes of Western Ghats. The circinate part of young leaves (crosiers), excised before the beginning of foliar expansion, was inoculated on half strength Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with auxins indole-3-buty...

narcissus is one of the very popular flowers among iranians. this flower has a short life. to investigate the increasing of vase life of cut narcissus, sour orange fruit extract in concentrations of 2.5, 4, 5.5 and 7 ml l-1 and sucrose in concentrations of 3, 4, 5 and 6% were used. in addition, distilled water was used as a control treatment. in this experiment, characters of vase life and perc...

Clerodendrum colebrookianum Walp. and infortunatum L. are well known for their medicinal uses in treating various human ailments traditionally. Pollen biology study was done both plant species to decipher pollen viability, vitro germination, storage varied temperature conditions. viability tests by 2, 3, 5-triphenyl tetrazolium chloride (TTC test) which grains were collected at the anthesis sta...

The aim of this work was to evaluate the phytochemical components, minerals, the antioxidant activity and total phenol contents of the essential oil from aerial parts of six major medicinal plants in Rayen, Iran. The plants included Ranunculus arvensis, Teucrium polium, Dracocephalum polychaetum, Kelussia odoratissima, Artemisia sieberi and Thymus kotschyanus. Total phenol content ranged from 0...

BACKGROUND The emergence of multidrug-resistant bacteria is a worldwide concern and in order to find an alternative to this problem, the occurrence of antimicrobial compounds in Plectranthus amboinicus essential oil was investigated. Thus, this study aims to determine susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from food to antibiotics, P. amboinicus essential oil (PAEO) and carvacrol. M...

a 3 × 2 factorial experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of thymol + carvacrol (0, 100 and 200 mg/kg) on ileal microbial population and jejuna and ileal histomorphology of broilers fed carboxy methyl cellulose (cmc: 0 and 2%) containing diet. each of the 6 dietary treatments was replicated 5 times with 12 chicks each from 0 to 42 days of age. there was no interaction effect of cmc a...