The city of Zarghan is located 25 km northeast of Shiraz, southern Iran. Zarghan is affected by numerous pollution sources such as oil refinery, an industrial park, and Shiraz-Tehran highway. The numerous contaminating sources around Zarghan can cause serious local air pollution. Sulfur dioxide gas is an important index of air pollution in cities. Therefore, in order to control and manage Zargh...

Mahdi Mirahmadi 1 , Habib Rezanejadbardaji 2 , Muhammad Irfan-Maqsood 1 , Mohammad Javad Mokhtari 3 , Hojjat Naderi-Meshkin 1 * 1 Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Research Department, Iranian Academic Center for Education, Culture Research (ACECR), Khorasan Razavi Branch, Mashhad, Iran. 2 Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard Medical School, 1 Joslin Place, Boston, MA 02215 U.S.A. 3 Department ...

Expression patterns of four candidate AREB/ABF genes and four DREB/CBF genes were evaluated in leaf and root tissues of five grape varieties ('Qalati', 'Kaj Angoor', 'Sabz Angoor', 'Siahe Zarghan', 'Bidane Safid') with differential response to drought stress. Among the AREB/ABF genes, AREB1 and ABF2 showed up-regulation in response to drought stress in leaf and root tissues of all varieties whi...

to determine sugar content and root yield variation of new sugar beet hybrids under different irrigation levels, an experiment was carried out at zarghan agricultural research station offars agricultural and natural resources research center, shiraz, iran. the study was conducted as split block based on a randomized complete block design with three replications for two years, 2009-10, using lin...

in current paper, geometrical relationship between the longitudinal faults of a zone of the folded zagros, surrounding asef mountains (north of shiraz) that follow the northwest-southeast structural trend (eg. zarghan, katah and sadra faults) has been studied. a western and southern zone of zagros mountain chain called folded zagros has a length of about 1375 km and a width between 120 and 250 ...

a survey was conducted to identify parasitoids of leafminers in shiraz region during spring 2005. the specimens of the eulophid parasitoid wasp, diglyphus poppoea walker, were reared from wheat leaves infested by agromyza ambigua fallã©n (dip.: agromyzidae) larvae in pole-fasa, zarghan and zafarabad regions. this parasitoid, which is recorded for the first time from iran, was identified by genc...

OBJECTIVE Grape virus diseases are a serious problem in Iran. Leaves and fruits of grape have been used for different purposes like cooking in Iran. The present investigation was carried out to study on the cytotoxic-activities of extracts of fruits and leaves of Vitis vinifera from both virus-free and virus-infected grape cultivars against breast cancer cell line (MDAMB- 231) and human embryon...