Soaking seeds of Arabidopsis in 0.005% streptomycin (SM) produced no second generation chlorophyll mutants. But when seeds were soaked in 0.005% SM for 20 hours before irradiation with X-ray, the percentage of chlorophyll mutants was lower than in plants obtained from seeds that were soaked in distilled water before exposure to X-ray. This protective action of SM was antagonized by 0.01 M Mncl,...

BACKGROUND Soybean (Glycine max) has been bred for thousands of years to produce seeds rich in protein for human and animal consumption, making them an appealing bioreactor for producing valuable recombinant proteins at high levels. However, the effects of expressing recombinant protein at high levels on bean physiology are not well understood. To address this, we investigated whether gene expr...

Medicago spp. is the most important forage crop in many regions of the world.Annual medics have distinct advantages over perennial Medicago. These species have fastergrowth rate in cultivation year, higher crude protein percentage, tolerance to pests and morevigorous seedlings. Morphological and physical aspects of pod and seeds of annual medicsplay a major role in the tolerance of the plants t...

priming is one of the seed enhancement methods that might be resulted in increased seed performance (germination and emergence). the objective of this research was to evaluate effect of priming on seed emergence and yield under wide ranges sowing dates in cotton. treatments were combinations of 6 sowing dates and 2 seed treatments (control and primed seeds). hydropriming method was used; seeds ...

Soil salinity reduces water availability of plant roots via negative (low) osmosis potential, as well decrease germination dynamics seeds by ionic toxicity Na and Cl, Significant differences in fruit-set, yield, photosynthetic rates, stomatal conductance, total chlorophyll content, proline, In general, affects almost every aspect the physiology biochemistry plants. This experiment was conducted...

Correction to: Effects of Moderate Treadmill Exercise and Fluoxetine on Spatial Memory and Serum BDNF Levels in an Animal Model of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder     Sakineh Shafia1, Abbas Ali Vafaei2,  Ali Rashidy-Pour2   1 Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran 2 Research Center of Physiology, Semnan Un...

In order to investigate the influence of sulfur coated seeds in SCS (a moisture absorbent polymer layer on seeds) on physiological traits of cotton, a field experiment was conducted in completely randomized design with factorial arrangement with 3 replications. Three planting date included early (E), optimum (O), and delayed (D) planting time. Seed coating priming treatments consisted of F (fuz...

The allelopathic influence of plant residues of three dominant weeds of NorthWestern Himalayan region, namely, Eupatorium adenophorum, Ageratum conyzoides and Lantana camara was observed on the germination and early growth of three common cereal crops viz., Triticum aestivum cv. HPW-42, Oryza sativa cv. Hasanshrai Basmati and Zea mays cv. Girija. The effect of soil amended with weed residues at...

Seagrass meadows provide crucial ecosystem services to the coastal zone but are threatened globally. Seagrass loss to date has mainly been attributed to anthropogenic activities that reduce light quantity (amount of photosynthetic photon flux density), such as dredging, flooding and eutrophication. However, light quality (wavelengths of light within the visible spectrum) is also altered by thes...