septoriosis is one of the most important disease in pistachio tree worldwide and is incited by several species of septoria among which s. pistacina islimited to mediterranea regions and recently reported on pistacia vera in golestan province of iran (aghajani et al. 2009. austr. plant dis. notes 4: 29-31). leaf samples of p. vera  from ghazvin (fig. 1) collected in october 2013, and samples fro...

Quercus persica and Pistacia mutica are two known and prevalent forest trees of Baneh and Marivan from Kurdistan province (W Iran). Thirty-five fungal isolates were obtained from 50 bark samples of Q. persica collected in Sept. and Mar. 2010–11. The aim of this study was to identify fungi associated with oak trees of Kurdistan province. Based on morphological features and authentic keys (Ellis ...

BACKGROUND Pistacia lentiscus (Anacardiaceae) is a flowering plant traditionally used in the treatment of various skin, respiratory, and gastrointestinal disorders. The aim of this study was to assess whether Pistacia lentiscus oil has any short term toxic effects in vivo and in vitro. METHODS Pistacia lentiscus oil (100µl) was administered orally into mice for 5 days. RESULTS Measurements ...

We examined functions of residual yolk (RY) in hatchling Smooth Softshell Turtles (Apalone mutica). Removal of RY did not affect survival, shell growth, or resting metabolic rates of turtles for 40 d after hatching. Our estimates of metabolic rate suggest that RY can fuel maintenance and activity metabolism for approximately 25 days. A. mutica absorb more than 1g of water in the first 2 weeks o...

Pistacia atlantica (wild pistachio) belongs to the Anacardiaceae family, and growing from Mediterranean basin central Asia, especially in Iran, Turkey, Iraq Saudi Arabia where it is extensively used traditional medicine for a wide range of ailments related relieving upper abdominal discomfort pain, dyspepsia peptic ulcer. Despite diverse biological activities P. atlantica, there no current revi...

An active filter feeding organism strains suspended matter from the surrounding water using a sieving structure. Small marine filter feeders however, have to cope with the physical problems of the high viscosity as indicated by the low Reynolds number. In a highly viscous regime, organisms' appendages are surrounded by a thick boundary layer, which makes movement and filter feeding difficult. I...