Molecular cloning and characterization of heat-responsive LcOPR1, a gene encoding oxophytodienoic acid reductase in lentil.

Improving crop plants using biotechnological implications is a promising and modern approach compared to traditional methods. High-temperature exposure to the reproductive stage induces flower abortion and declines grain filling performance, leading to smaller grain production and low yield in lentil and other legumes. Thus, cloning effective candidate genes and their implication in temperature stress tolerance in lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.

Epidemiology of diabetes mellitus in Tunisia. HSHS 2 study (Hammam Sousse Sahloul Heart Study).

Background: National epidemiological studies on diabetes mellitus are rare, ancient and often carried out schools or clinics settings.

Objectives: To determine the prevalence of diabetes mellitus and identify its risk factors in the adult population of the city of Hammam Sousse (Tunisia) during the year 2009.

Methods: This study is a part of analysis of the HSHS database (Hammam Sousse Sahloul Heart Study), a «community-based» cross-sectional study on cardiovascular risk factors including diabetes mellitus, with a two-stage proportional probability cluster random sample.

Fractionation of Heavy Metals in Multi-Contaminated Soil Treated with Biochar Using the Sequential Extraction Procedure.

Heavy metals (HMs) toxicity represents a global problem depending on the soil environment's geochemical forms. Biochar addition safely reduces HMs mobile forms, thus, reducing their toxicity to plants. While several studies have shown that biochar could significantly stabilize HMs in contaminated soils, the study of the relationship of soil properties to potential mechanisms still needs further clarification; hence the importance of assessing a naturally contaminated soil amended, in this case with Paulownia biochar (PB) and Bamboo biochar (BB) to fractionate Pb, Cd, Zn, and Cu using short sequential fractionation plans.

Exogenous γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-induced signaling events and field performance associated with mitigation of drought stress in L.

Not much information is available to substantiate the possible role of γ -aminobutyric acid (GABA) signaling in mitigating water-deficit stress in snap bean ( L.) plants under semiarid conditions. Present work aims to investigate the role of exogenous GABA (foliar application; 0.

Comparing Salt Tolerance at Seedling and Germination Stages in Local Populations of L. to L. and L.

Salt stress is one of the most serious environmental stressors that affect productivity of salt-sensitive crops. is an annual legume whose adaptation to agroclimatic conditions has not been well described. This study focused on the salinity tolerance of genotypes compared to and in terms of plant growth, physiology, and biochemistry.