Chamomile (Matricaria chamomilla), an important medicinal plant belonging to the Asteraceae family, has a wide distribution in Iran and other parts of the world. The medicinal and pharmacological effects of chamomile are mainly associated with its essential oil content and it is widely used in food, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries. Despite its wide geographical distribution in Iran, lit...

in this research, issr technique was applied to assess genetic diversity among 56 chickpea lines. out of 34 primers, nine primers produced appropriate banding patterns and produced 35 polymorphic bands in chickpea lines. mean percentage of polymorphism of the primers was 66.01 with range of 25 to 100 percent. mean of nei's genetic diversity and shannon information index over all primers we...

The influence of climatic and pollution gradients was determined on species richness, species diversity, and values of phytoindicators of the herb layer in pine and mixed pine forest communities in Poland. Geographical longitude was used as a synthetic measure of geographical position. Ellenberg’s indices were used as synthetic measures of habitat differentiation, calculated as weighed averages...

Biodiversity plays a crucial role in stability and productivity of natural ecosystem. The main goal of this research was to classify ecological groups in steppe rangeland and investigate their relationships with plant diversity indices. Therefore, fifty different Land Unit Tracts (LUT) were identified in Khod-Neuk basin, Yazd province, Iran, in 2010. Vegetation and soil samples were taken in th...