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I visually scored the symptoms of frost stress on leaves (loss of leaf turgidity and loss of leaf color). I would like to estimate AUSP.. I have 189 genotypes and they were evaluated under three...
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Dormant and Non Dormant Embryo.
12 January 2015 4,063 13 View
Does anyone know a good germination protocol for Campanula glomerata without using gibberellic acid (GA3)? We have seeds originating from various wild populations from Belgium and France. When...
12 January 2015 3,663 17 View
I am trying to do some stress related assays on plants and have limited amount of tissue. When searching literature for catalase assay, I found protocols where tissues are used for doing catalase...
09 January 2015 6,484 4 View
I have LAI 2200 equipment however, I do not know how to use it! The website of Bioscience has no information about the use. Can someone explain to me, step by step, how to measure the LAI into the...
07 January 2015 8,048 3 View
Under ME, dispersal rates are high enough to alter population abundances regardless of patch suitability, therefore maladapted species may be more prone to appear under MEs, and these maldapted...
31 December 2014 307 1 View
I am comparing carbon fixation of different plant species and was wondering whether a list of the photosynthetic capacity of different species exists.
31 December 2014 944 5 View
Which one of the two relations is more appropriate for the calculation of importance value index for a species? IVI= Relative density + Relative frequency + Relative cover (Reference: ECOLOGICAL...
30 December 2014 5,317 15 View
As we know, the life cycle of the leaves of evergreen trees are more as compared to the deciduous trees why it is?
30 December 2014 10,191 6 View
I have no direct measurement, but tree trunks and branches seem to me a lot more important in terms of reserves for their position and size relative to roots.
28 December 2014 9,779 10 View
Jorgensen in 1986 working with petunias stumbled across RNAi. He inserted transgenic copies of chalcone synthase, a limiting enzyme in the synthesis of the flower's purple pigment, but instead of...
14 December 2014 6,583 3 View
During direct regeneration of Chickpea, the shoot tips start to get brown just after a few day of sub-culturing to multiple shooting medium or to rooting medium and stop responding. What may be...
03 December 2014 2,476 4 View
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02 December 2014 1,044 5 View
I want to have information about the introduction period of exotic plants in the Mascarene Islands. I would appreciate if you could suggest me some open access online sources.
02 December 2014 8,754 3 View
I am looking for photos and drawings of cross - sectional area of rhizomes of the following species: 1. Broadleaf cattail Typha latifolia 2. Reed sweet grass Glyceria maxima 3. Common reed...
02 December 2014 2,173 5 View
I obtained higher yield of raw DNA from in-house protocol. When purified with qiagen I found that samples were having murkiness in solution and the nanodrop ratios were also very low. Have you...
02 December 2014 5,405 3 View
I am using an IDS camera to identify RGB color ranges on some diseased leaves. It is easy to pick up the fraction of RGB (out of 255 grades) but I need to convert this into real wavelengths. Any...
01 December 2014 5,032 4 View
Most dicots, such as Arabidopsis, seed developmentfollows two distinct phases and the embryo grows to full size andreplaces most of the endosperm at maturity. During the firstphase, the syncytial...
30 November 2014 2,448 4 View
My friends and I were discussing on O2 deficiency in plant. By reading on a lecture note, this question was popped up and we got stuck for the discussion.
30 November 2014 8,406 2 View
hi frds, I have problem regarding Arabidopsis growth?Its F2 population taking approx 1year for complete its life cycle.......instead of 4-5 months........So tell me solution to early completion of...
27 November 2014 7,803 17 View
Hi. I would like to find more on a soil dust from roads on the vegetation. I am considering the influence of cars on the Mediterranean grassland in a very touristic protected area. Any direction?...
27 November 2014 3,319 3 View
Hi, I am going to measure the Na+, K+, and Cl- ion uptake by whole plants, using two plants whose shoot dry mass is 5g and 2.5g per plant. Could you please tell me how I can measure their total...
21 November 2014 4,515 11 View
I have problems interpreting article 9.8 of the ICN, which states that: "An epitype is a specimen or illustration selected to serve as an interpretative type when the holotype, lectotype, or...
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