Induced dedifferentiation of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) embryonic cells and its relationship with agronomic traits.

This study was carried out to investigate the response of 42 Iranian and European barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) cultivars to induced dedifferentiation of embryonic cells via immature embryo culture and understand the relationship between embryo culture characters and agronomic traits. The cultivars were evaluated for dedifferentiation of embryonic cells or callus induction from immature embryo culture based on a completely randomized design with unequal replication. Immature embryos were placed scutellum down on cell dedifferentiation medium based on MS and supplemented with 2.5 mg/l 2,4-D. The developed calli were transferred to MS regeneration medium with different concentrations and combinations of plant growth regulators. The results of group comparisons showed that Iranian cultivars were greater than European cultivars regarding callus growth rate, callus primary diameter and total regenerated plantlets. The path correlation analysis revealed that grain width and kernel filling period had the highest positive and negative direct effects on embryo culture traits, respectively. Clustering cultivars based on the embryo culture characters and agronomic traits divided the cultivars into three groups. The third group consisted of the cultivars which all of them were with the highest mean for flag leaf length, days to anthesis, grain yield, callus growth rate and callus primary diameter. Mantel test revealed a negative (-0.101) and significant correlation (P<0.01) between embryo culture characters and agronomic traits. The significant relationships between few numbers of embryo culture characters and agronomic traits confirm that these characteristics could be genetically dependent and also tissue culture characters can be estimated from agronomic data.

Genetic diversity of Iranian honey bee (Apis mellifera meda Skorikow, 1829) populations based on ISSR markers.

Honey bee is one of the most important insects considering its role in agriculture,ecology and economy as a whole. In this study, the genetic diversity of different Iranian honey bee populations was evaluated using inter simple sequence repeat (ISSR) markers. During May to September 2014, 108 young worker honey bees were collected from six different populations in 30 different geoclimatic locations from Golestan, Mazendaran, Guilan, West Azerbaijan, East Azerbaijan, Ardebil provinces of Iran. DNA was extracted from the worker honey bees. The quality and quantity of extracted DNA were measured. A set of ten primers were screened with the laboratory populations of honey bees. The number of fragments produced in the different honey bee populations varied from 3 to 10, varying within 150 to 1500 bp. The used ten ISSR primers generated 40 polymorphic fragments, and the average heterozygosity for each primer was 0.266. Maximum numbers of bands were recorded for primer A1. A dendrogram based on the Unweighted Pair Group Method with Arithmetic mean (UPGMA) method generated two sub-clusters. Honey bee populations of Golestan, Mazendaran, Guilan provinces were located in the first group. The second group included honey bee populations of Ardebil, West Azerbaijan, East Azerbaijan provinces, but this group showed a close relationship with other populations. The results showed obviously the ability of the ISSR marker technique to detect the genetic diversity among the honey bee populations.

Fast and sensitive chemiluminescence assay of aminophylline in human serum using luminol-diperiodatoargentate(III) system catalyzed by coated iron nanoparticles.

The CL intensity of luminol-diperiodatoargentate(III) (DPA) system is strongly enhanced by addition of iron nanoparticles (FeNPs) covered with C12E4. On injection of aminophylline into luminol-DPA-FeNPs system, the CL intensity is significantly increased. On this basis, a sensitive CL assay was developed for determination of AmP in human serum. FeNPs could catalyze the oxidation rate of luminol in the present of oxygen. Also, the CL intensity of luminol-DPA-FeNPs system is significantly increased in the presence of aminophylline (AmP). Based on this ruling, a sensitive CL assay was developed for determination of AmP in human serum. The influences of analytical variables on the CL signal were studied and optimized. Under the optimum conditions in the present of FeNPs, the CL intensity is linearly increased with AmP concentration in the range of 1.0×10(-8)-2.0×10(-6) mol L(-1). The detection limit was 9.8×10(-9) mol L(-1) AmP and the relative standard deviation for ten parallel measurements of 8.0×10(-7)mol L(-1) AmP was also 4.8%. The proposed system was successfully applied to determine AmP in human serum samples.

Effect of colloidal ß-cyclodextrins-Fe3 O4 magnetic nanoparticles on the chemiluminescence enhancement of luminol-Ag(III) complex for rapid and sensitive determination of cysteine in human serum.

Colloidals solution of Fe3 O4 magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs), capped with ß-cyclodextrins (ß-CD) as inclusion complexes, were found to enhance the chemiluminescence (CL) intensity of the luminol-diperiodatoargentate(III) (DPA) system. On injection of cysteine into the luminol-DPA-ß-CD-Fe3 O4 MNPs inclusion complexes system, the CL intensity is strongly enhanced. The enhanced CL signal is ascribed to the catalytic effect of Fe3 O4 MNPs capped with ß-CD, which is assumed to stabilize the CL intermediate. Based on these findings, a rapid and sensitive assay was developed for the determination of cysteine in human serum. The effects of analytical variables on the CL signal were studied and optimized. Under the optimum conditions, the CL intensity was directly proportional to the concentration of cysteine in the range 8.0 × 10(-9) -1.0 × 10(-6) mol/L. The detection limit was 2.8 × 10(-9) mol/L (3 S(b) /m) and the relative standard deviation (RSD) for 10 replicate determinations of 1.0 × 10(-7) mol/L cysteine was 3.5%. The proposed method was applied to the sensitive determination of cysteine in human serum samples, and compared with the Ellman method with satisfactory results.