in order to investigate the impact of government policies on supply, cropping area and yield of sugar beet during 1981-2003, nominal rate of protection (nrp) was applied as a variable to persuade government’s policies in this study. results showed that despite of its negative impacts on cropping area, the nrp has positive effects on supply and yield of sugar beet iniran. moreover, real price of...

sulfonic acid functionalized sba-15 as a nanoporous acid catalyst was used in the synthesis of 2-aryl benzoxazoles 4 by the condensation of 2-aminophenol 1 and benzoyl chlorides 2 under microwave irradiation in solvent free reaction conditions. the advantages of this methodology are good product yields (60-98%), being environmentally benign, short reaction times and easy work up.

alkaline phosphatase is an enzyme with widespread use in research and industry such as protein labeling, dephosphorylation of nucleic acids, and enzyme based biosensors. in the present study, alkaline phosphatase gene was inserted into the pet15b vector. the recombinant dna was then expressed using iptg as an inducer. the expression of this enzyme was optimized by changing expression conditions...

drought resistance is a very important characteristic needed for plant survival especially at germination stage, in arid and semi-arid lands. phosphatase enzymes are widely found in plants. these enzymes are responsible for dephosphorylation of organic phosphate and altering it to mineral phosphate. germination experiments were conducted in two bread wheat cultivars (sardari and alvand) under s...

melissa (melissa offcinalis l.), a member of a lamiaceae family, is a medical plant. the main most important pharmacological properties can be soothin, strengthening nerve, carminative and memory booster. the presence of heavy metals is one of important environmental stresses that can reduce growth and production of types of reactive oxygen. in the present study, the effect of copper sulfate (c...

detopping in some plants reduces vegetative growth and increases transporting of photosynthate materials to specific sinks such as seeds. to study the effects of detopping removal and plant density on yield and yield components of faba bean (vicia faba l.), an experiment was carried out as a factorial arrangement based on a randomized complete block design with three replications at farm resear...

background and aims: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) is a kind of pulmonary diseases characterized by chronic obstruction of lung that is in the form of a diffuse narrowing of airways resulting in air flow resistance. alpha-1 antitrypsin (aat) deficiency is genetically relatively common risk factor in patients with copd throughout the world and the exact cause of its prevalence is ...

background and objective: parkinson's disease (pd) is a movement disorder with debilitating symptoms. available treatments for pd mainly include its symptomatic relief with no prevention of its progression. due to the iron-chelating and antioxidant effect of phytic acid (pa), this study was conducted to assess its protective effect in 6-hydroxydopamine-induced model of pd in rat. materials and ...

presence of antibiotic resistance markers has always been considered as one of the main safety concerns in transgenic plants and their derived products. elimination of antibiotic selectable markers from transgenics is a major hurdle for finding efficient and safe candidates. herbicide tolerance genes might be attractive alternatives. in this study, a variant form of the 5-enoylpyruvyl shikimate...

a highly selective, rapid and economical differential pulse polarographic method has been developed for the determination of trace amounts of cadmium and lead present together in various standard alloys and biological samples after adsorption of their 1-(2-pyridylazo)-2-naphthol complexes on microcrystalline naphthalene. cadmium and lead complexes are equantitatively adsorbed on microcrystallin...