introduction throughout their life cycle, plants are subjected to various types of environmental stresses which include salinity, water deficit, temperature extremes, toxic metal ion concentration and uv radiation. these environmental factors limit the growth and productivity of plants to various degrees, depending upon severity of stress. heavy metal toxicity is one of the major current enviro...

studies on floristic composition of weeds in an agricultural zone could help to reach a better weed control management strategies. the goal of this article was the study of the floristic composition of lentil weeds grown filds in khorramabad, during 2007-2008. sampling was done on 9 point of each field according to w method in 21farm. in each plat per plate of all weed species were counted sepa...

Background: From ancient times, lentil has been a prominent part of our diet. Nowadays, there is an emerging interest in lentil, as it potential food plant origin having ample amount nutrients, which contributes to numerous health benefits. Methods: The seeds (PL 8) were screened for visual impurity and deformity sound selected further analysis. subjected milling the flour obtained was used ana...

Abstract The effects of hydrolysis by commercial food-grade proteases on the physicochemical and techno-functional properties lentil protein concentrate were investigated. Lentil was hydrolysed with Alcalase, Novozym 11028 or Flavourzyme, a control prepared without enzyme addition under same conditions. Differences in specificity between three evident electrophoretic profile, reversed-phase HPL...

Selecting seeds with high vigour eminently affects initial plant growth and determines stand. Various tests including electrical conductivity (EC), radicle emergence counts (RE), standard germination (SG) were used to assess the of eleven lentils (Lens culinaris L.) seed lots. Lentil lots over 75% normal germination, germinated use an ISTA test. The (2 mm) was tallied at constant intervals from...

Crop wild relatives (CWR) are a good source of useful alleles for climate change adaptation. Here, 19 durum wheat, 24 barley, and lentil elites incorporating CWR in their pedigrees were yield tested against commercial checks across environments located Morocco, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Senegal. For each crop, the combined analysis variance showed that genotype (G), environment (E), x (G×E) effects si...

Mitochondria were isolated from imbibed seeds of lentil (Lens culinaris) and Phaseolus vulgaris. We copurified two voltage-dependent anion channel from detergent solubilized mitochondria in a single purification step using hydroxyapatite. The two isoforms from P. vulgaris were separated by chromatofocusing chromatography in 4 M urea without any loss of channel activity. Channel activity of each...

Affinity chromatography of serum on lentil lectin bound to Sepharose 4B has been used to identify different forms of alpha-fetoprotein in serum of patients with liver disease. We studied eight patients with non-malignant liver disease, finding that 7-15% of the serum alpha-fetoprotein bound to the lectin. In contrast, for 15 patients with malignant liver disease, 25-83% of the serum alpha-fetop...

Establishment of an efficient and reproducible regeneration protocol is one of the basic prerequisites for genetic transformation of any crop plant. In vitro culture of lentil has proven to be difficult. In spite of a number of reports on the regeneration of this plant, very few satisfying and reproducible protocol has yet been reported. This study carried out for investigation of diff...