Review         

          

 

       ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

 

Khalid Mansour, Onisimo Mutanga and Terry Eversono

     Remote sensing based indicators of vegetation species for assessing rangeland       

     degradation: Opportunities and challenges
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 3261-3270

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJARX11.2316

 

 

         Research Articles

 

          

           IRRIGATION AND WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

 

Gh. H. Karimi and H. Moazed

     Settling and non-settling velocities in irrigation canals, Hamidieh and Ghods     

      irrigation network, South of Iran
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 3271-3276

     DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.1218

 

 

            SOIL SCIENCE

 

Ebrahim Fatahi Nejad, Ataallah Siadat, Mehrdad Esfandiari, Reza Moghadasi and Abdolamir Moezi

     Determination of the critical level of phosphorus in rapeseed dry land agriculture in

      the southeastern of Khuzestan
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 3277-3283

     DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.1735

 

Jing Zhang and Pei Hou

     Changes in soil properties during reversal of desertification in agro-pastoral        

      transition zone of Northern China
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 3284-3292

     DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.1863

 

Roya Karimi, Mostafa Chorom, Sina Solhi, Mahmood Solhi and Abdollah safe

     Potential of Vicia faba and Brassica arvensis for phytoextraction of soil

     contaminated  with cadmium, lead and nickel
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp.3293-3301

     DOI: 10.5897/AJAR12.165

 

 

          ANIMAL SCIENCE

 

Farhan Ahmad Atif, Muhammad Sarwar Khan, Hafiz Javed Iqbal, Ghulam Murtaza Arshad, Ejaz Ashraf and Sami Ullah

     Prevalence of Anaplasma marginale, Babesia bigemina and Theileria annulata  

     infections among cattle in Sargodha District, Pakistan
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 3302-3307

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.2051

 

Hosseini-Zijoud Seyed-Mostafa, Hosseini Javad, Mahmoodi Mehdi, Gholamhossein Hassanshahi, Behrooz Hashemi and Hosseini-Zijoud Seyed-Mohammad

     The effects of Persian shallot extract on the levels of some blood biochemical

     parameters in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 3308-3313

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.2498

 

 

           CROP SCIENCE

 

I. A. Al-Abdoulhadi, H. A. Dinar, G. Ebert and C. Büttner

     Influence of salinity stress on photosynthesis and chlorophyll content in date palm

     (Phoenix dactylifera L.) cultivars
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 3314-3319

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR12.433

 

 

            AGRICULTURAL  ENGINEERING

 

Alireza Meyari, Mehrdad Esfandiari, Hossein Babazadeh, Mohammad Reza Pirestani and Ebrahim Moosa Yasori

     Application of mechanistic model for soil production and landscape development in

    Jajrood area, North-east Iran
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 3320-3328

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.2143

 

        

           PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

 

Hafiz Muhammad Tahir, Tahira Noor, Muhammad Farooq Bhatti, Malook Bano,
Abida Butt, Imtiaz Alam, Muhammad Arshad, Muhammad Khalid Mukhtar,
Shafaat Yar khan, Khawaja Raees Ahmed and Muhammad Mohsin Ahsan

     Acetochlor application at field-rate compromises the locomotion of the jumping

     spider Plexippus paykulli (Araneae: Salticidae)
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 3329-3333

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.2182

 

 

          PLANT BREEDING

 

Zhang Ying Hua, Lin Qiang, Tong Wei, Liu Zhao Yue, Fang Rong Jun, Zhao Wei Guo and Li Long

     Sequence analysis and expression of the calcium-dependent protein kinase gene,

     MCDPK in mulberry (Morus L.)
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 3334-3341

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.2217

 

 

          PLANT PROTECTION

 

Fariba Mehrkhou, Ali Asghar Talebi, Mahmoud Ghasemi Kochameshgi,
Vahid Hosseininaveh, Elizabete de Souza Cândido, Bernardo Petriz, Simoni Campos Dias,
Maria Elita Batista Castro, Angela Mehta and Octavio Luiz Franco

     Comparative proteomic analyses of Anticarsia gemmatalis and Spodoptera

     frugiperda guts
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 3342-3348

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.2386

 

 

           PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY

 

CUI Hua-wei, MA Wen-guang, HU Jin, LI Yong-ping and ZHENG Yun-ye

     Chilling tolerance evaluation, and physiological and ultrastructural changes under

     chilling stress in tobacco
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 3349-3359

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.1481

         

          

           AGRICULTURE EXTENSION

 

Mohammad Karim Motamed, Mohsen Moshkbeed Haghighi, Abbas Sadeghi, Hamid Devisti and Ebrahim Azarpour

     Study personal characteristics of agriculture extension workers in North of Iran
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 3360-3366

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.1657

 

 

           FORESTRY

 

Mehran Nasiri and Asghar Fallah

     The effect of snow weight on trees bending at the edge of the Hyrcanian forest

      roads
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 3367-3374

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR12.964