This study investigated the potential local CH4 sink in various plant parts as a boundary environment of CH4 emission and consumption. By comparing CH4 consumption activities in cultures inoculated with parts from 39 plant species, we observed significantly higher consumption of CH4 associated with aquatic plants than other emergent plant parts such as woody plant leaves, macrophytic marine alg...

Peroxidase, indoleacetic acid-oxidase, alkaline, and acid phosphatases were detected in dry starchy endosperm (minus aleurone) of wheat grain. The isoperoxidase pattern differed in different parts of the dry grain. Several new isoperoxidases were found in embryos after soaking. The intensity of isoperoxidases in aleurones was enhanced in the presence of embryo or 2 muM GA(3) after 24 hours of s...

Antioxidants are the essential defense mechanism to protect the body against free radical damage. The objective of the study was to investigate the in vitro antioxidant activity of different parts of Withania somnifera (leaves, fresh tubers and dry tubers) towards free radical DPPH and the extent of inhibition of lipid peroxidation using hydrogen peroxide as prooxidant. The plant extracts exhib...

drought is the main constraint limiting chickpea productivity which makes a considerable difference between the potential and actual yield. in order to evaluate the effect of drought stress on different morpho-physiological characteristics of chickpea, four distinct genotypes were studied in three sampling times (pre-stress, stress and recovery) with three replications. as the results implicate...

a split plot factorial experiment based on randomized block design in four replications was performed in order to study the effect of three levels of compost (zero, 10 and 20 ton dry matter/ha), in main plots and three levels of nitrogen (zero, 100 and 200 kg/ha pure nitrogen) and three levels of phosphorous (zero, 60 and 120 kg/ha p2o) on corn yield. the effect of compost on different characte...

s: Chromium is one of the unessential heavy metal that makes high toxicity in the plants. The aim of this study was assaying the changes that come from toxicity of (Cr ) on some biochemical, physiological and 6+ ionic specification of Brassica napus variety sari flower. The tests were conducted at hydro ionic conditions and at 0, 25, 50, 75 and 100 μm concentration of K CrO with four repeats in...

The purpose of this study was to determine the atropine and scopolamine content in different parts of Datura plant, (Datura metel L.), growing wild in Syria. These alkaloids were separated and quantified by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) coupled with diode-array detector (DAD), and fluorescence detector (FLD), using a reversed phase Eclipse C18 column and employing a mixture of w...

A series of experiments were conducted on recycled pulp samples for the novel purpose of determining the efficacy of employing soy protein flour to increase the strength of dry paper. Values of short span compression and tensile strength were the prime criteria for comparison based on industrial considerations. Various conditions were considered to uncover effective schemes for applying the soy...