This study was conducted to assess the impact of growing condition variables on alfalfa (<italic>Medicago sativa</italic> L.) productivity. A total 197 yield results were acquired from field trials by South Korean National Agricultural Cooperative Federation or Rural Development Administration between 1983 and 2008. The corresponding climate soil data collected database Meteorologic...

Plant leaves, simple or compound, initiate as peg-like structures from the peripheral zone of the shoot apical meristem (SAM), which requires KNOXI homeobox transcription factors to maintain its activity. The MYB domain protein encoded by the ASYMMETRIC LEAVES1/ROUGH SHEATH2/PHANTASTICA (ARP) gene, together with other factors, excludes KNOXI gene expression from incipient leaf primordia (P0) to...

Rhizobial lipo-chitooligosaccharides (LCOs) are signaling molecules involved in host-range recognition for the establishment of the symbiosis with leguminous plants. The major LCO of Rhizobium meliloti, the symbiont of Medicago plants contains four or five N-acetylglucosamines, O-acetylated and N-acylated with a C16:2 fatty acid on the terminal nonreducing sugar and O-sulfated on the reducing s...

BACKGROUND Auxin/indoleacetic acid (Aux/IAA) genes, coding a family of short-lived nuclear proteins, play key roles in wide variety of plant developmental processes, including root system regulation and responses to environmental stimulus. However, how they function in auxin signaling pathway and symbiosis with rhizobial in Medicago truncatula are largely unknown. The present study aims at gain...

The mutagenic effects of low-energy ions have been identified by genetic studies for decades. Due to the short penetration distance of ions, however, the underlying mechanism(s) is still not quite clarified. Recently, increasing data have been accumulated concerning the existence and manifestation of radiation induced bystander/abscopal effects in vivo in the whole-organism environment. In this...

Biological invasions can have strong ecological effects on native communities by altering ecosystem functions, species interactions, and community composition. Even though these ecological effects frequently impact the population dynamics and fitness of native species, the evolutionary consequences of biological invasions have received relatively little attention. Here, I show that invasions im...

Forage yield, nutritive value, and stand persistence are key metrics in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) management. The combination of cultivar improvement, longer growing seasons the Midwest, trends shorter rotations offer opportunity to reevaluate effects increasing cutting frequency (CF) on these metrics. We evaluated forage milk production, eight entries with fall dormancy (FD) ranging from tw...

for comparison of the food value of four different epecies of aquatic weeds: potamogeton pectinatus , potamogeton lucens, potamogeton perfoliatus, najas minor and two species of terrestrial grass: medicago sativa and cynodon dactylon by grass carp (ctenopharyngodon ideda), was studied in the shahicl rejai fishfarm in sari (province of mazandaran). totally 6 concrete ponds with 30 cubic meter vo...