Due to the decreasing trend of rangelands, many native species are vulnerable and even at risk of extinction. Therefore, seed preservation and propagation of native species of rangelands and recognition of the characteristics of grazing, drought tolerance and their production potential are very beneficial. In this study, the five species of Festuca ovina, Festuca rubra, Br...

festuca ovina l. is a hyperaccumulating plant which has aroused considerableinterest with respect to its possible use for phytoremediation of contaminated soils. thisstudy has been conducted to evaluate the potentials of f. ovina l. to serve as aphytoremediation plant in the cleaning up of cu in the polluted soils and to identifyextraction efficiency of ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid (edta) ...

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of ecological factors on distribution, presence and absence of species Ferula ovina and F. persica in the semi-arid rangelands of Zanjan province, Iran in 2015. The locations of ten 4m2 plots with 15m spacing on three 150 m long transects were systematically randomized and determined in each key area within each hab...

Genetic diversity may play an important role in allowing individual species to resist climate change, by permitting evolutionary responses. Our understanding of the potential for such responses to climate change remains limited, and very few experimental tests have been carried out within intact ecosystems. Here, we use amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) data to assess genetic diverg...

BACKGROUND Phosphoglucose isomerase (PGI, EC 5.3.1.9) is an essential metabolic enzyme in all eukaryotes. An earlier study of the PgiC1 gene, which encodes cytosolic PGI in the grass Festuca ovina L., revealed a marked difference in the levels of nucleotide polymorphism between the 5' and 3' portions of the gene. METHODS In the present study, we characterized the sequence polymorphism in F. o...

Leaf slices of the sethoxydim sensitive grasses Poa pratensis and Festuca ovina and the sethoxy­ dim resistant grasses Poa annua and Festuca rubra take up the herbicide at similar rates. Uptake is almost linear with concentration up to 2 m M , independent of light and little affected by tempera­ ture between 0 and 25 °C. Uptake is highly pH sensitive. At pH 7.0 rates o f uptake are only about 2...