in a faunistic survey conducted on auchenorrhyncha in sugar beet fields of mashhad and chenaran regions during 2008-2010, a total of 2741specimens belonging to 5 families were collected. as a result, 10 species were added to the fauna of the study area including: family cicadellidae: rhytidodus decimusquartus (schrank 1776), viridicerus malicola (dubovxdy 1966); handianus procerus (herrich-scha...

consequences of divorce, specially the negative ones, affect different sectors of society generally and become specifically important in gender development analysis and social policy, because of their especial influence on women’s lives. this article reviews the previous studies and published literature on after-effects of divorce in iran in a period between 1997 and 2011. based on an initial s...

drought affects on all aspects of human actirities seriously as a climatic phenomenon. however, the studies related to this phenomenon based on suitable method are very few. studying the drought features and its prediction can be effective on decreasing of resulted losses or damages. therefore, drought and evaluation of its prediction possibility are studied for some stations of ardabil provinc...

in this study, the effect of drought and different concentrations of silicon was examined on seed yield, essential oil percentage and physio-chemicals properties in fennel plant. the experimental design was a split plot with three irrigation regimes: irrigation at 100, 70 and 40 percent of fc comprising the main treatments, and five levels of silicon foliar sprays (0, 2.5, 5, 7.5 and 10 mm) as ...

shortage of irrigation water, being a crucial problem in arid and semiarid regions, makes it necessary to use treated wastewater in agriculture. a field experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of treated municipal wastewater (tmw) on the yield and fiber quality of cotton (gossypium hirsutum l.) (mehr variety). treated municipal wastewater was supplied from shahrake ghods sewage treat...

drought as a climatic phenomenon affected many different environmental issues and generally is associated with the decreasing in average precipitation. evaluation and monitoring of the drought is a fundamental step in proper programming of water resources management. regarding the recent conditions water scarcity in the urmia lake basin, assessment of the drought index in this region is inevita...

trehalose is an important disaccharide signal metabolite in plants which is involved in various aspects of plant function such as response to stress, photosynthesis and carbon allocation and partitioning. a mutant of arabidopsis lacking trehalose-6-phosphate synthase activity (tps1) accumulates ascorbate. exogenous ascorbate application ameliorates trehalose induced growth inhibition of wild ty...

development of remote sensing (rs) and gis techniques and that of landscape metrics in the late 1980s have caused to introduce a new dimension in the landscape ecology arena (the relationship between spatial patterns and ecological processes). however, scale dependence of some of landscape metrics and rs systems of different spatial resolution has resulted in particular attention into selection...

gypsum found in the soil beneath the foundation of structures, specially hydraulic structures, can cause serious damage to them. the mechanical behavior of gypsiferous soils has not so far been investigated in detail except for the works of petrukhin (1993). here, it has been tried to investigate the mechanical behavior and the effect of soil being leached on settlement and strength of these ki...

this research was carried out to determine the chilling and heat requirements of grapevine cultivars(rotabi, siah shiraz and yaguti) and carbohydrate and hormones changes in chilled cuttings. uniform cuttings of above mentioned cultivars were harvested when leaves were abscised in autumn, and then transferred to refrigerator (2˚c). cuttingswere subjected to 0 (unchilled control), 100, 200, 300,...