Thermal imaging is a potential tool for estimating plant temperature, which can be used as an indicator of stomatal closure and water deficit stress. In this study, a new method for processing and analysing thermal images was developed. By using remote sensing software, the information from thermal and visible images was combined, the images were classified to identify leaf area and sunlit and ...

In this study the further characterization of the Vicia faba leghaemoglobin promoter pVfLb29 is presented that was previously shown to be specifically active in the infected cells of root nodules and in arbuscule-containing cells of mycorrhizal roots. Using promoter studies in transgenic hairy roots of the Pisum sativum mutant RisNod24, disabled in the formation of functional arbuscules, VfLb29...

Effect of drought on apoplastic protein content, protein pattern, enzymic activiteis and minieral concentration of Vicia faba cv Giza 40 (relatively drought-tolerant) and Vicia faba cv Giza 667 (relatively drought-sensitive) was studied. While drought decreased Na, K, Ca concentration in leaf apoplast of Giza 40, it increased Na and Ca concentraion in case of Giza 667. Giza 40 has K:Na ratio hi...

Mounting levels of insecticide resistance within Australian Helicoverpa spp. populations have resulted in the adoption of non-chemical IPM control practices such as trap cropping with chickpea, Cicer arietinum (L.). However, a new leaf blight disease affecting chickpea in Australia has the potential to limit its use as a trap crop. Therefore this paper evaluates the potential of a variety of wi...

The present study concerns the genotoxicity of olive mill waste water (OMWW) generated in mills producing olive oil in Morocco. The Vicia faba micronucleus test was used to evaluate the genotoxicity of OMWW and the six major phenolic compounds identified by HPLC in this effluent. Five dilutions of OMWW were tested: 0.1, 1, 5, 10 and 20%. Maleic hydrazide was used as a positive control. The resu...

I N the experiments on Vicla faba roo:-tip cells reported in the first paper in this series (EVANS 1961), it was observed that the frequency with which the chromatids of various chromosomes, or chromosomc arms, underwent interchsnge followiny: irradiation was not in direct proportion to the metaphase length of these chromosomes. Taken as a group, the ten acrocentric chromosomes, compared with t...

Evolutionary relationships were inferred among a worldwide sample of Ascochyta fungi from wild and cultivated legume hosts based on phylogenetic analyses of DNA sequences from the ribosomal internal transcribed spacer regions (ITS), as well as portions of three protein-coding genes: glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate-dehydrogenase (G3PD), translation elongation factor 1-alpha (EF) and chitin synthase 1...

The ability of indigenous rhizobia to nodulate a legume crop effectively was critical to successful establishment and growth of legumes. This study was aimed to evaluate the symbiotic effectiveness along with growth responses to varied conditionslike pH, salt, temperature, antibiotics, and carbon and nitrogen sourcesfor rhizobial isolates nodulating faba bean from Tahtay Koraro, northwestern Zo...

The genetic relationship among some naturally growing Vicia taxa in Turkey (V. sativa subsp. sativa, subsp.nigra var.nigra, subspincisavar.cordata, V. craccasubsp.cracca, subspgerardii, subspatroviolacea, subspstenophylla, V. hybrida, V. peregrinaandV. palaestina) was assessed by helping ISSR markers. During PCR assays, although 17 primers were tested, only three primers produced informatics am...