By mid 2004, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) is expected to launch its final recommendations on minimum capital requirements in the banking industry. Although there is the intention to arrive at capital charges which concur with economic intuition, the risk weight formulas proposed by the committee will lack an adequate treatment of concentration risks in credit portfolios. Th...

In attempts to identify the phylogenetic donors of cytoplasm to EmmerDinkel and Timopheevi groups of wheat (Triticum), and the Aegilops kotschyiAe. variabilis complex, the restriction fragment patterns of chloroplast DNAs of representative species were compared with those of their putative diploid ancestors. The following seven restriction enzymes were used; BamHI, EcoRI, HindIII, KpnI, PstI, S...

Species can adapt to new environmental conditions either through individual phenotypic plasticity, intraspecific genetic differentiation in adaptive traits, or both. Wild emmer wheat, Triticum dicoccoides, an annual grass with major distribution in Eastern Mediterranean region, is predicted to experience in the near future, as a result of global climate change, conditions more arid than in any ...

background : this study was aimed to collect wild rodents for endoparasites determination in some parts of sistan and baluchistan province, southeastern iran nearby pakistan and afghanistan countries. methods : a total of 100 wild rodents were captured alive with cage traps. various samples were collected from blood and feces, also impression smear prepared from different organs. the samples we...

A n n u a l W h e a t N e w s l e t t e r V o l. 5 8. Our organic breeding program is highly focused on the development of new, organic cultivars of alternative or underutilized cereals such as einkorn and emmer. A new, organically bred, einkorn cultivar, Mv Menket, was released last year. This is the first semidwarf einkorn cultivar in the market, with elevated yield potential, and excellent r...