The brown alga Ectocarpus has recently become the first fully sequenced multicellular alga and is an important biological model. Due to the large and growing number of Ectocarpus strains isolated and maintained by the research community, including increasing numbers of mutants, there is an urgent need for developing reliable, cost-effective long-term maintenance techniques. We report here that ...

salinity stress is one of the most important abiotic stress factors limiting the plants' growth. seed priming is known as a method which improves the germination performance in seeds in stress conditions. the objective of this study was to compare the effectiveness of hydropriming and halopriming on germination performance of secale montanum while growing under the nacl-salinity stress. hydropr...

Temperature and moisture are essential factors in germination seedling growth. The purpose of this research was to assess the growth wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) seeds under various abiotic stressors. It conducted Agronomy Institute Hungarian University Agriculture Life Sciences, Gödöllő, Hungary. Six distinct temperature levels were used: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 °C. Stresses drought waterlogging...

The cytology of teliospore germination and basidiospore formation in Urornyces appendiculatus vat. appendieulatus was characterized with light and fluoroscence microscopy. Meiosis of the diploid nucleus occurred in the metabasidium. The four haploid daughter nuclei migrated into the basidiospore initials where they underwent a post meiotic mitosis. Each basidiospore was delimited from the meata...

The surface sterilized grains of Triticum aestivum (L.) cv. HD2204 were soaked in graded concentration (10–10, 10–8 or 10–6) of 28-homobrassinolide (HBR), for 8 h. These pre-treated grains were transferred to sterilized petriplates, lined with filter paper moistened with double distilled water in a B.O.D. incubator, fixed at 25°C. The samples were removed 12, 18 and 24 h of their initial soakin...