A rapid and reliable micropropagation protocol was developed for two sweet potato varieties, Mangawy Mabrokat Al-Shimal, by testing various growth regulators different carbon sources. Healthy cultures were taken from nodal segment explants potted plants. Adding BA more effective than Kinetin when used at the same concentration. The highest number of leaves per explant (5.22 leaves/ explant) lon...

rosmarinus officinalis is one of the most important medicinal and aromatic plants around the world. essential oil as a weapon against biotic and abiotic stresses plays an important role in essential oil bearing plants. in this study the essential oil content and constituent of plants containing bacterium-gall on the shoots and crown was compared with non-contaminated plants. essential oil perce...

A proteomics approach was used to study the proteins associated with chinch bug infested corn seedlings. Examination of two-dimensional gels revealed the presence of more than 600 high quality protein spots each from chinch bug-infested and healthy corn seedlings. A total of 31 protein spots was selected for matrix-assisted laser desorption and ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometric analy...

background and aim: from long time ago, traditional medicine was integrated with popular culture and various aspects of treatment have been allocated to it. at the present time, the use rate of this method depends on people’s belief and recognition. experimental: the research was conducted in the region mobarakeh, iran, in order to identify the priorities for application of medicinal plants by ...

cotton cultivar coker has been already transformed with recombinant pbi121-chi via agrobacterium tumefaciens. the t-dna region of pbi121-chi carries the chitinase (chi ) gene from bean and is under the control of the camv35s promoter. t1 and t2 progenies of transgenic cotton containing the chi gene were used in this study.  polymerase chain reaction (pcr), southern and western blotting data con...

orchids are one of the most popular plants in the world and among them phalaenopsis genus have the most sales in a global market. because of its hard propagation, micropropagation technique has been employed recently. in this study, we tried to find out useful protocol for commercial production through in vitro culture. at first, for seed capsules production, flowers were pollinated with hand i...

Several aquatic species were examined as potential phytoremoval agents for selenium in aqueous solutions. Selenium was initially present in concentrations of 0-100 ppm Se (as sodium selenite) in 10% Hoagland’s medium, and aquatic plants were grown in the medium for one week. Four aquatic plants were studied: Cattail ( Typha domingensis ), duckweed ( Lemna obscura ), hydrilla ( Hydrilla verticil...

The study has been focused on effect of untreated distillery effluent (Devans Breweries Ltd., Jammu) on germination of gobi sarson (Brassica napus. L. var. Punjabi Special). Six treatments (E0.... E100) each having three replicates were made. E0 was taken as control in which tap water was used for irrigation of the plants. For E20, E40, E60, E80 and E100, different concentrations i.e. 20, 40, 6...

Experiments were carried out to investigate the physiological (dry weight of root, stem, peg, flowers plant, fruits sets percent, pod yield (kg plot), 100-kernel weight, days to flowering and maturity) and biochemical (endogenous proline level) traits of groundnut cultivar Swat Phalli-96 under drought stress. The result showed that drought stress significantly (p < 0.05) reduced dry weight of r...