Evaluation of various hCG treatment strategies applied to domesticated pikeperch (Sander lucioperca) broodstock on nest-spawning performance     

Falahatkar  Bahram  Javid Rahmdel  Kamyar  Rasouli Kargar  Eshagh  Gholami  Shapoor 《Aquaculture International》2022,30(1):73-85

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effects of hCG injections on reproductive efficiency by hCG treatment in both male or female brooders of domesticated pikeperch (Sander lucioperca) in the first generation. The study consisted of four treatments based on hormone injection to male or female brooders including T1: both sexes were injected, T2: only females were injected, T3: only males were injected, and T4: without hormone injection. Each treatment which included 14 males and 12 females were introduced to a single rectangular concrete tank with one spawning nest for each mate (a total of 12 nests per tank). Fish were injected by a single dose of 200 IU/kg hCG before transferring to mating tanks. After mating, nests containing fertilized eggs were transferred to circular concrete tanks for incubation and hatching of embryos. According to the results, treatments T3 and T4 did not respond to hormonal stimulation and no fish were spawned. Treatments T1 and T2 showed a positive response to hormone injection. Latency time, fertilization rate, and hatching rate showed no significant difference between T1 and T2 (P?>?0.05), but the number of responded females was significantly higher in T2 (P?<?0.05). The results of the present study demonstrated that it is possible to perform the semi-artificial propagation of domesticated pikeperch via injecting with 200 IU/kg hCG just to females, without the need for hormonal stimulation for males.

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Correction to: Droplet-vitrification cryotherapy and thermotherapy as efficient tools for the eradication of apple chlorotic leaf spot virus and apple stem grooving virus from virus-infected quince in vitro cultures     

Farhadi-Tooli  Sakineh  Ghanbari  Alireza  Kermani  Maryam Jafarkhani  Zeinalabedini  Mehrshad  Bettoni  Jean Carlos  Naji  Amir Mohammad  Kazemi  Nooshin 《European journal of plant pathology / European Foundation for Plant Pathology》2022,162(1):257-257

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An evaluation of harvesting costs in present and planned operations: case study—Waston District of Mazandaran Wood and Paper Industries     

Majid Lotfalian  Mohammad Ali Akbari Gorji  Seyed Ataollah Hoseini  Maryam Kazemi 《林业研究》2018,(1)

Amongst all forest utilization phases, harvesting plays a key role as the beginning phase of the utilization cycle and has a significant effect on the following phases.In this research, in order to examine the reduction of costs with respect to present and planned operations, the starting time of the harvesting or cutting phase and work flow were recorded. The starting time of each phase of the entire operation was recorded as well. Before harvesting the marked tree, the appropriate felling direction was determined and the azimuth of the correct direction was taken.The results indicate that there was not a meaningful relationship between the differences in direction of a leaning tree compared with the felling direction. However, there was a significant relationship between the difference of the defined and felling direction and the difference in tree leaning and defined direction. The same trend was observed between tree leaning and felling directions and tree leaning and defined directions. On the other hand,there was no significant relationship between tree leaning and felling directions and the defined and tree felling directions. In addition, this research shows that with an increase in tree volume, the time for tree cutting rose.Furthermore, when the difference of tree leaning and felling direction decreased, the time to cut the tree declined.The regression equation is Y = 168.9–0.14(the difference between tree leaning and felling direction) + 0.7(volume).  相似文献   

Responses of Four Rice Varieties to Elevated CO₂ and Different Salinity Levels     

Sheidollah Kazemi  Hamid Reza Eshghizadeh  Morteza Zahedi 《水稻科学》2018,25(3):142-151

This study was carried out in 2014 at Isfahan University of Technology, Iran, to evaluate the responses of four rice varieties(Neda, Deylamani, Shiroudi and Domsorkh) to ambient(360 ± 50 μmol/mol) and elevated(700 ± 50 μmol/mol) air carbon dioxide(CO_2) concentrations under four salinity levels(0, 30, 60 and 90 mmol/L Na Cl). There was significant variation among rice varieties in response to elevated CO_2 concentration under the four salinity levels. Under non-saline condition, elevated CO_2 increased the dry weight of Neda, Deylamani and Domsorkh by 8%, 50% and 8%, respectively, but reversely decreased that of Shiroudi by 34%. Increasing CO_2 concentration significantly reduced the negative effects of salinity on Shiroudi, but these effects were even increased in Deylamani and Domsorkh under all the salinity levels and in Neda only under 30 and 60 mmol/L Na Cl. Significant correlations were established between plant dry weight, SPAD value and leaf area under both CO_2 levels. However, this trend was observed only at ambient CO_2 concentration in the presence of soluble carbohydrates. The results revealed the genotype and salinity dependence of the effects of CO_2 concentrations on the rice traits investigated.  相似文献   

Genotype by environment interaction components underlying variations in root,sugar and white sugar yield in sugar beet (<Emphasis Type="Italic">Beta vulgaris</Emphasis> L.)     

Mahdi Hassani  Bahram Heidari  Ali Dadkhodaie  Piergiorgio Stevanato 《Euphytica》2018,214(4):79

The success of plant breeding programs depends on the ability to provide farmers with genotypes with guaranteed superior performance in terms of yield across a range of environmental conditions. We evaluated 49 sugar beet genotypes in four different geographical locations in 2 years aiming to identify stable genotypes with respect to root, sugar and white sugar yields, and to determine discriminating ability of environments for genotype selection and introduce representative environments for yield comparison trials. Combinations of year and location were considered as environment. Statistical analyses including additive main effects and multiplicative interactions (AMMI), genotype main effects and genotype?×?environment interaction effects (GGE) models and AMMI stability value (ASV) were used to dissect genotype by environment interactions (GEI). Based on raw data, root, sugar and white sugar yields varied from 0.95 to 104.86, 0.15 to 20.81, and 0.09 to 18.45 t/ha across environments, respectively. Based on F-Gollob validation test, three interaction principal components (IPC) were significant for each trait in the AMMI model whereas according to F ratio (F_R) test two significant IPCs were identified for root yield and sugar yield and three for white sugar yield. For model diagnosis, the actual root mean square predictive differences (RMS PD) were estimated based upon 1000 validations and the AMMI-1 model with the smallest RMS PD was identified as the most accurate model with highest predictive accuracy for the three traits. In the GGE biplot model, the first two IPCs accounted for 60.52, 62.9 and 64.69% of the GEI variation for root yield, sugar yield and white sugar yield, respectively. According to the AMMI-1 model, two mega-environments were delineated for root yield and three for sugar yield and white sugar yield. The mega-environments identified had an evident ecological gradient from long growing season to intermediate or short growing season. Environment-focused scaling GGE biplots indicated that two locations (Ekbatan and Zarghan) were the most representative testing environments with discriminating ability for the three traits tested. Environmentally stable genotypes (i.e. G21, G28 and G29) shared common parental lines in their pedigree having resistance to some sugar beet diseases (i.e. rhizomania and cyst nematodes). The results of the AMMI model were partly in accord with the results of GGE biplot analysis with respect to mega-environment delineation and winner genotypes. The outcome of this study may assist breeders to save time and costs to identify representative and discriminating environments for root and sugar yield test trials and creates a corner stone for an accelerated genotype selection to be used in sweet-based programs.  相似文献   

The effects of foliar applied potassium in the mineral form and complexed with amino acids on pistachio nut yield and quality     

Mohammad Reza Hamze  Hossein Shariatmadari  Bahram Baninasab 《Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science》2018,64(10):1432-1445

A two-year field experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of foliar-applied K in the form of mineral compound (K₂SO₄) and complexed with lysine (KL) and lysine plus methionine (KLMet) with or without ascorbic acid (A) on nut yield and quality of bearing pistachio (Pistachio vera L. cv. Owhadi). Results showed that foliar application of K, regardless of applied source, significantly increased leaf and nut K concentration in comparison with control. In both experimental years, the trees supplemented with K provided higher total yield, fresh and dry mass of shelled and unshelled 100-nut, and 100-kernel dry mass and lower percentage of non-split shells in comparison with those un-supplemented with K. In both years, foliar application of K significantly decreased the percentages of blank nuts. The effectiveness of K-amino chelates in improving nut yield and quality was, in general, higher than that of K₂SO₄. The highest yield and the best nut quality was obtained with foliar application of KLMet-1. The critical leaf and nut K concentration for optimum pistachio nut yield and quality was 2.27 and 1.87%, respectively. Foliar application of K particularly in the form of KLMet-1 during nut filling is recommended to obtain optimum yield and quality of pistachio.  相似文献   

Growth performance and physiological changes of holding juvenile Siberian sturgeon at different sizes in rearing units     

Naghmeh Jafari  Bahram Falahatkar 《Aquaculture Research》2019,50(3):699-706

An investigation was accomplished to find the effects of different sizes as a social stress on physiological responses and growth performance of Siberian sturgeon. Juvenile Siberian sturgeon were separated into two sizes (860.88 ± 22.32 g as larger fish and 427.28 ± 2.97 g as smaller fish). Three treatments including large size (L), small size (S), and mixed size (M) were considered. There were equal numbers of large and small fish in the M treatment. Sampling was carried out at 1st week (as a short‐term sampling) and 8th week (as a long‐term sampling) of the experiment. At the end of each sampling, haematocrit, glucose, cholesterol, triglyceride, total protein, lactate, and cortisol were measured. All growth parameters and feed utilization in large fish were not affected in the M treatment compared with the L treatment and also small fish in the M treatment compared with the S treatment. The final biomass in the S treatment was significantly higher than those in the L and M treatments. Haematocrit, glucose, cholesterol, triglyceride, total protein, lactate, and cortisol in the 1st week showed no significant difference with different sizes. However, in the 8th week, only haematocrit increased (by time not size) in the S treatment. Fish in the M treatment in both sizes did not experience the stress condition. Larger and smaller sizes had a positive social interaction; therefore, different sizes of Siberian sturgeon can maintain together without decreasing growth rate and also adverse physiological responses.  相似文献   

Comparative study on hormones and biochemistry indices in plasma,ovarian fluid and oocytes of LHRHa2‐induced female Stellate sturgeon (Acipenser stellatus)     

Zahra Roosta  Sareh Ghiasi  Bahram Falahatkar 《Aquaculture Research》2019,50(1):139-145

Reproduction efficacy of sturgeon as donors of oocytes is regulated by hormones effects. It can influence the egg quality or larvae functions as rearing mediators for successful production. This study is conducted to evaluate the concentration of sex steroids, cortisol and thyroid hormones and distinguish the relationship of maternal hormones' correlation in Stellate sturgeon. The study followed the hormones fluctuations that could impress some egg quality information such as fertilization rate. Female breeders were injected with LHRH_a2 for controlled propagation. Samples from blood, ovarian fluid and oocytes were obtained for hormonal and biochemical analysis. Our results showed that the concentrations of estradiol 17‐β and testosterone were significantly higher and lower in oocyte and the plasma, respectively. The level of plasma cortisol was significantly higher than in ovarian fluid and oocytes. The results showed elevation of triiodothyronine and thyroxine concentrations in oocytes, which were significantly different with plasma and ovarian fluid. Thyroxine concentration of plasma and ovarian fluid revealed a significant negative correlation. The mentioned parameters showed negative correlation with fertilization rate. The biochemical parameters (calcium, glucose, cholesterol and triglyceride) revealed significant differences in blood, ovarian fluid and oocytes. These results showed direct relations of fertilization rate with hormones level. Therefore, fertilization rate as egg quality index could be recommended as a relevant indicator of maternal transferring of hormones from blood and ovarian fluid to oocyte.  相似文献   

Correction to: The effect of a phytogenic feed additive (Digestrom P.E.P) on growth performance,proximate composition,hematological and immunological indices of juvenile beluga sturgeon Huso huso     

Defaee  Somayeh  Falahatkar  Bahram  Lavajoo  Fatemeh  Efatpanah  Iraj 《Aquaculture International》2022,30(4):2197-2197

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