conclusions albumin gradient method is the enrichment of y-bearing chromosome sperms. separation of spermatozoa by albumin gradient method, introduced by ericsson, is a suitable method for sex selection of male offspring. this technique is safe, because it neither requires toxic materials during sperm separation, nor involves embryo manipulation. objectives the study aimed to assess the separat...

in this study, it was intended to investigate the persian native speakers’ perception of gerunds by three different elicitation techniques i.e., written, audio, and pictorial through translation. eighty intermediate learners of english were asked to select persian translation of the gerund formsin these elicitation techniques. they were asked to choose one option from a pair of written first la...

A. Pratap and J. Kumar (eds.), Alien Gene Transfer in Crop Plants, Volume 1: Innovations, Methods and Risk Assessment, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-8585-8_2, © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 Abstract Wide or distant hybridization has been widely used as an important tool of chromosome manipulation for crop improvement. The chromosome behaviors in F 1 hybrids provide us with the essenti...