Cold plasma technologies are an efficient approach to improve the germination properties of seeds, especially in a stacking configuration within dielectric barrier device. In such dry atmospheric priming process, we show that He-N2 treatment 20 min can reduce median time lentil seeds from 1420 1145 minutes, ie gain vigor 275 (or +19.4 %). Considering this result depends on plasma-seed interacti...

A study was conducted for assessing quality of 15 hybrid rice seed samples and management of seed borne fungal pathogens by three selected chemicals namely Bavistin (0.3%), Thiovit (0.3%) and Provax (0.3%) along with two botanicals such as: Garlic extract (Allium sativum) (1:1) and Allamanda leaf extract (Allamanda cathartica) (1:1) and a bio-control agent BAU-Biofungicide @ 3% (Trichoderma bas...

The present study focused on the separation and identification of the active compounds against head lice from the hexane extract of Annona squamosa L seed. Chromatographic and spectroscopic techniques revealed that two major compounds of the hexane seed extract were oleic acid and triglyceride with one oleate ester. The yields of these compounds were 13.25% and 7.74% dry weight, respectively. T...

INTRODUCTION Pedal Wounds secondary to complications related to Diabetes Mellitus Wounds related to diabetes mellitus are multifactorial in etiology. Primary factors contributing to chronic diabetic foot ulceration include peripheral neuropathy and peripheral vascular disease. Secondary factors including limited joint mobility, neuropathic osteoarthropathy (Charcot foot), and a depressed immune...

The juxtacapsular bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (jcBNST) is activated in response to basolateral amygdala (BLA) inputs through the stria terminalis and projects back to the anterior BLA and to the central nucleus of the amygdala. Here we show a form of long-term potentiation of the intrinsic excitability (LTP-IE) of jcBNST neurons in response to high-frequency stimulation of the stria ter...

Our objective was to assess the clinical factors that would reliably distinguish methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) from methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) endocarditis. A retrospective cohort study of clinical features and mortality in patients with MRSA and MSSA endocarditis between March 1986 and March 2004 was performed in a 750-bed, tertiary care teaching hospital. A total of 32 ...

global warming and global climatic changes have attracted many concerns. the objective of this research was to examine greenhouse gas emission and its resultant global warming potential (gwp) in wheat production in gorgan, north-east of iran. to do this, six wheat fields were selected and during three consecutive growing seasons, data were gathered on input and energy use in all production prac...

concerns related to conservation of fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emission has increased energy balance studies in crop production systems. in the present study, six wheat (triticum aestivum) fields were selected from east and west of gorgan, golestan province, iran. during three consecutive growing seasons, data were gathered on energy use in all production practices. then, all the energy us...

to evaluate the effect of combined use of weeds control an different mechanical methods on weeds number and dry weight in cotton , a split plot experiment based on randomized complete block design was conducted at the region of boshruyeh in 2012. experimentals factors were tillage methods as main-plots with three levels, including conventional tillage, no-till system and minimum tillage; and di...

Synthesis of beneficial protected meso-DAP 9 by cross metathesis of the Garner aldehyde-derived vinyl glycine 1b with protected allyl glycine 2 in the presence of Grubbs second-generation catalyst was performed. Preparation of lipophilic N-acyl iE-DAP as potent agonists of NOD 1-mediated immune response from 9 is described.