insect natural enemies selected for such specific traits as faster developmental times, longer survivor, increased fecundity, and larger body size might be considered during production of biological control agents in certain situations. for instance, traits related to developmental rates may be selected for, if genetically based variation exists within temperature-dependent responses. hippodami...

a total of 160 day-old male broiler chickens (ross 308) were divided in a completely randomized design experiment, and assigned to 8 treatments and 4 replicates in their experimental units (cages). treatments included: t1: basal diet with no additional methionine, t2: basal diet plus 0.06, t3: basal diet plus 0.11, t4: basal diet plus 0.17 % of dl-methionine, t5: basal diet plus 0.06, t6: basal...

mechanisms of drought stress tolerance of gf677 rootstock, peach and almond hybrid, (prunus persica × prunus amygdalus) were studied under in vitro conditions. plantlets of gf677 rootstock were subcultured into the murashige and skoog (ms) solid proliferation medium containing 1 mg/l ba (6-benzyladenine) and 0.1 mg/l naa (naphthaline acetic acid) in four drought stress levels 0 (control), 10, 2...

time-dependent schrödinger equation for a 1-d model of hydrogen molecular ion h2+ in intenselaser field linearly polarized along the molecular axis is solved. ionization rates are calculated for differentinitial states. the evolution of electronic wavefunction at fixed inter-nuclear separations are simulated andanalyzed. the results obtained for the ground state of this 1-d model of h2+ show ap...

summary based on the results of the analysis of site effects, mostly those with shear wave velocity and the fundamental period chosen as the basis for classification. in revision of earthquake resistant design regulations for buildings, classification of lands should be subject to the field conditions, geological, geotechnical, geophysical, and laboratory tests.in this context, the average shea...

willows due to the rapid growth rate, low nutrient requirements, resistance to many pollutants, and environmental stresses are ideal candidates for developing the landscapes and reducing the environmental degradation. the purpose of this study was to determine the response of salix alba seedling to water deficit conditions. this experiment was set up as complete randomized design with five irri...

this research evaluated the effects of gibberellin (ga3) and abscisic acid (aba) on emergence capability, rate of emergence, vigor index and some physiological characters of chickpea seedling (cicer arietinum l.) in a field experiment (as split) under dry and irrigated conditions. seeds were primed with 0, 50, 100 and 150 ppm of each phytohormones. examined chickpea cultivar was azad. the resul...

the complexity of the genetic control of drought tolerance makes inevitable using of molecular methods with biometric approaches to its improvement in plants. present study was conducted by 121 advanced lines and varieties of soybean under two moisture levels, normal and drought stress with 21 microsatellite markers linked to drought tolerance in two regions, namely, rasht and gonbad-kavous. gr...

to provide reliable information concerning reproductive potential of hippodamia variegata goeze and its prey (aphis fabae), their related life tables were studied under controlled laboratory conditions (at 23?c). the unprocessed data of life tables were analyzed taking the euler-lotka as the basis model. standard error of population growth parameters was calculated using the jackknife re-sampli...

sensivity of seed germination stage to saline soil is the main obstacle to proper field establishment of sugar beet crop. in previous studies different tissues of sugar beet showed high tolerance to salt stress by of increasing sodium chloride levels in in vitro condition. an experiment was by to study the response of sugar beet zygotic embryos to salt stress in in vitro conditions. sterile per...