Interrelationships, origin and phylogenetic affinities of brown trout Salmo trutta populations from the southern Caspian Sea basin, Orumieh and Namak Lake basins in Iran were analysed from complete mtDNA control region sequences, 12 microsatellite loci and morphological characters. Among 129 specimens from six populations, seven haplotypes were observed. Based on mtDNA haplotype data, the Orumi...

to improve commercial grapevine cultivars, it is necessary to apply such methods that by cultivation of a certain number of vines in a certain area, higher yield could be harvested. to achieve such a goal, healthy stocks with resistant to pests and diseases, high fructification and high quality of vines are needed. all these properties can be obtained successfully through clonal selection. viti...

fruit yield efficiency and some vegetative characteristics of commercial and spur type apple. cultivars was evaluated in dr. nakhjavani field station, orumieh, iran, in 2008 and 2009 growing seasons. apple cultivars included: red spur, red chief, golden spur, yellow spur, fujii, red delicious, cooper spur, red cooper spur, jonathan, golden delicious, oregon spur, jonagold. the experimental desi...

orumieh lake due to economic, tourism, microclimate effect, agricultural activities have an important role in the northwest of iran. this lake basin area is 52700 km2 with 102 islands, as known a familiar it as known one of the protected areas, with 186 species of birds, and animals. the water of lake is very salty (240 gr in winter and 260gr in summer) and fluctuation of lake water level threa...

grape berry moth, lobesia botrana (denis and schiff.) is a destructive pest of grapevine in orumieh (northwest, iran) vineyards. it is mainly controled through application of broad-spectrum insecticides, which can adversely affect vineyard ecosystem and consequently human health. since a first step in setting up an ipm program is to assess the biological control agents within the ecosystem, so ...

the genus euphorbia l. (euphorbiales: euphorbiaceae) typically have a poisonous white sap in all plant parts. weedy spurge, euphorbia boissieriana prokh., is a toxic deep-rooted herbaceous and perennial weed that is native to the north west of iran. the biology of spurge clear-wing moth chamaesphecia schizoceriformis kolenati as a biocontrol agent of e. boissieriana was studied at field and lab...