Publications by authors named "Afrasyab Rahnama"
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- Future climate changes will lead to more extreme weather, negatively affecting crop yields and quality, particularly due to heat stress, which is less understood for grain quality.
- A study on safflower plants with different heat tolerances revealed that extreme heat reduced seed yield by 53-57% and altered fatty acid composition, with increases in saturated fatty acids and varying effects on unsaturated fatty acids over two years.
- Heat stress impacted the physicochemical properties of safflower oil more significantly than the fatty acid profile, showing that certain parameters fluctuated based on environmental conditions and genetic tolerance.
Melatonin is a growth regulator that improves the growth and chlorophyll (chl) content in plants. This study aims to investigate the effect of melatonin pretreatment on chl synthesis and fluorescence parameters in exposed to cadmium (Cd). The 42-day-old plants were transferred to nutrient solutions containing 50 μM melatonin.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDrought and salinity stresses are adverse environmental factors that affect crop growth and yield. Proteomic analysis offers a new approach to identify a broad spectrum of genes that are expressed in living system. We applied this technique to investigate protein changes that were induced by salinity in barley genotypes (Hordeum vulgare L.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSalinity as well as drought are increasing problems in agriculture. Durum wheat (Triticum turgidum L. ssp.
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