Water use assessment is important for bioproduction using cyanobacteria. For eco-friendly reasons, seawater should preferably be used for cyanobacteria cultivation instead of freshwater. In this study, we demonstrated that the freshwater unicellular cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 could be grown in a medium based on seawater. The Synechocystis wild-type strain grew well in an artifici...

Field studies on cannabis cultivation have provided socio-economic data relating to, inter alia, production, yield and income. But only laboratory analyses of cannabis plants can provide information on their chemical composition and their levels of psychoactive constituents, thus enabling them to be classed as a drug type or a fibre type. The present study, which covers cannabis in its fresh, d...

The results presented in this work support the hypothesis that Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of sorghum is feasible, analogous to what has been demonstrated for other cereals such as rice, maize, barley and wheat. The four factors that we found most influenced transformation were: the sensitivity of immature sorghum embryos to Agrobacterium infection, the growth conditions of the donor ...

cobalt (co) deficiency occurs in many parts of world especially in tropical and subtropical countries.primary co deficiency occurs only in places where the soil is deficient in co. the type of soil and the presence of other substances like manganese and lime influence the absorption of co (secondary co deficiency). to determine the co status in shahrekord district, iran, several important farms...

abstract background: better control of blood sugar and reduction of diabetes complications through insulin therapy could convince people to choose this method. however, patients might refuse insulin therapy due to its painful injection, limitations in daily activities, and hypoglycemia. thus, insulin therapy could have both positive and negative effects on patients’ quality of life (qol). there...

zafar as a new rapeseed cultivar is the cross which was made between 19h and sarigol line/cultivar in 2003. the pedigree selection was applied to mange the segregating generations. the results of evaluation made during 2008-09 and 2009-10 showed that zafar with an average seed yield of 3810 kg ha-1 was among superior genotypes identified. further evaluation on these genotypes as a mid-maturity/...