to breaking dormancy as well as the effect of light, temperature, salinity and drought stress on germination of cutleaf mignonette seeds, experiments were conducted at the research laboratory of birjand faculty of agriculture in 2009. immersion in sulfuric acid (96%) for 30 seconds under continuous dark regime resulted in the highest germinability (73%) and the lowest germination (8%). was obse...

In this paper, the scattering of a plane monochromatic electromagnetic wave from a nanowire with circular cross-section in the transverse electric (TE) mode is simulated using the well-known Stratton-Chu surface integral equations. For an ordinary dielectric nanowire the refraction phenomenon is nicely simulated. In the case of a plasmonic nanowire no sign of surface plasmon excitation and prop...

The measurement of carbon isotope discrimination (∆) provides an integrated insight into theresponse of plants to environmental change. To investigate the potential use of ∆ for identifyingshade tolerance in rice, five rice varieties were selected and artificially shaded (53% lightreduction) during the grain-filling period in 2010 and 2011, in Sichuan, China. Shadingtreatment had a significant ...

Anderson localization is a regime in which diffusion is inhibited and waves (also electromagnetic waves) get localized. Here we exploit adaptive optics to achieve focusing in disordered optical fibres in the Anderson regime. By wavefront shaping and optimization, we observe the generation of a propagation-invariant beam, where light is trapped transversally by disorder, and show that Anderson l...

We analyze the resonant transmission of light through a photonic-crystal waveguide side coupled to a Kerr nonlinear cavity, and demonstrate how to design the structure geometry for achieving bistability and all-optical switching at ultralow powers in the slow-light regime. We show that the resonance quality factor in such structures scales inversely proportional to the group velocity of light a...

Commercial broilers reared under an intermittent-lighting regime produced a significantly better feed conversion than broilers reared under a continuous-lighting regime. Body weight gain was not significantly affected by light treatment. However, the number of breast trims, as recorded under commercial processing plant inspection procedures, was significantly higher for broilers reared under an...

Temporal changes in gas exchange and chlorophyll fluorescence of Paeonia suffruticosa seedlings acclimated to three levels of light environments were investigated. There was a significant photosynthetic depression in seedlings acclimated to a long time of shading and then suddenly exposed to full ambient radiation. The decreased transpiration (E ) resulted from ‘feed-forward effect’ mechanism [...