This research was conducted during spring and fall seasons, 2015 , at the fields of Field Crop Department – College of Agriculture –University of Baghdad . The objective was to study the effect of grain moisture at  harvesting on some agronomic traits  of the corn  next  generation , by  using synthetic variety 5018 . In spring season 2015 , seeds of this variety  was planted ,when  moisture of the ear grains was (37-42%) , ten ears were harvested. Ear harvesting dates were performed manually when the grains had 37-42% , 34-36% , 30-33% , 25- 28% and 19-22%  moisture content. In fall season  2015 , varietal trail was carried out to the five treatment materials , us

Common Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench) is recognized as a healthy food in many countries because it is nutrient-rich crop. The objectives of this study was to investigate  the succesful farming for buckwheat plants in the Iraqi environmental conditions, extraction and estimation of the most important nutritional and medicinal compounds from seeds plant and it᾽s effectiveness in the inhibition of lipids peroxidation which considered to be the causative agent of the free radicals formation in vivo.The hexane and methanolic extraction gave many compounds from buckwheat seeds. NMR were used to determine many of the natural compounds for buckwheat plants seeds after ma

This study was included investigation of the resistance genes Mi which is responsible for the appearance of resistance feature in tomato against root knots Nematode Meloidogyne spp in 46 pure lines of tomato indeterminate growth, ten of tomato pure lines showed resistance to root knots nematode infection after 60 days of the inoculation by 5000 egg/ kg of soil . While 31 pure lines of tomato showed sensitivity for these nematode infection, which root knot  numbers had exceeded 100 knots. Then the genes has diagnosed by using the technology of molecular analysis the DNA of the purelines of sensitive and resistance tomato was isolated by the CTAB method then apply the indicators of Si

A Field experiment was conducted on the vegetable field - Department of Horticulture - College of Agriculture - University of Baghdad during spring season 2013 and fall season 2013-2014  to study the effect of different levels of Agrosol and Enraizal on the qualitative characters of the fruits of cherry tomato. Hybrid Jaguar,F1 used during spring  season and  fall season and the hybrid Summerbrix  used during fall season only. Three concentrations of Agrosol (0,3,6 g/l ) and Enraizal (0,2,4ml/l) were used respectively .The experiment was conducted by using (RCBD) with three replicates. The results could be summarized as follows: in first experiment, Treatment AG2EN0 increased the percentage of

The experiment was conducted under shading (with the aid of Saran) condition on a nursery managed by the Baghdad Mayoralty during the season of 2014-2015 to study the effect of composed sheep manure extract on the growth and leaf nutrients content of tomato seedlings var. Wijdan. The experiment was composed of 6 treatments included the extract of sheep manure by hot (42⁵C)and lmbient(20⁵C) temperature water .The extract was diluted to the half by water and foliar applied to seedlings (multible application) or to the soil . Treatments also included the application of NPK chemical fertilizers as recommended and a control treatment through appl

A field trial was conducted at Abu-Ghraib Research Station-Agricultural Research Directorate-Ministry of Agriculture during the growing seasons of 2012-2013 and 2013-2014. The objective was to investigate the effect of source-sink Regulation on grain yield  and its companents of five bread wheat cultivars (Triticum aestivum L.). Randomized complete block design with the arrangement of split-plots with three replicates was used. Bread wheat cultivars (Bohooth-22, IPA 99, Abu-Ghraib-3,Al-Fath and Al-Rasheed) occupied the main plots while treatments of source-sink relationship regulation occupied the sub-plots. They included eight treatments: Con. control (Con.), S1 (removal of lamina of the flag leaf of main stem), S2

A field trial was conducted at Abu-Ghraib Research Station-Agricultural Research Directorate-Ministry of Agriculture during the winter seasons of 2012-2013 and 2013-2014. The objective was to investigate the effect of source-sink Regulation on grain yield  and its companents of five bread wheat cultivars (Triticum aestivum L.( Randomized complete block design with the arrangement of split-plots with three replicates was used. Bread wheat cultivars (Bohooth-22, IPA 99, Abu-Ghraib-3,Al-Fath and Al-Rasheed) occupied the main plots while treatments of source-sink relationship modification occupied the sub-plots. They included eight treatments: Control (Con.), S1 (remova

The relation between communication activities of extension agents and the applications of wheat growers to the wheat agricultural recommendations in Kirkuk, The main goal of this study was to determine it communications activities of extension agents correlated with the applications of wheat growers to wheat agricultural recommendations in the province of Kirkuk, Questionnaire was designed with to parts to achieve this study, The first part had (24) items related to communication activities (divided to four groups) and the second parts had eight item related to wheat agricultural recommendations stratified sample was used to drown the sample for 17 agriculture divisions in Kirkuk, The final sample had 150 growers from there divis

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of replacement of low density Lipoproteins (LDL) in different concentrations  ,exctracted fram egg yolk in the Tris diluents of the Holestion Freizan bulls semen after cooling and different cryopreservation periods . This study was done during the period From September/2014 to March/2015 and a two parts periods . First from September to November /2014 to done the extraction of the low density Lipoprotein which it have be succifully  done at the viruses Laportary  which belonge to the diagnosis department /state Board of the plant protection /Ministry of Agriclturd (Abu_Gruiab/west of Baghdad).The LDL extraction was done by a procedure with different steps from fre

The study was conducted for a period 120 days of metal floating cages were used 2.25 × 2.25 × 1.5 m dimensions, for breeding two types of carp fish and common carp Cyprinus carpio.L and silver carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix rate of 240 fish (120 common carp +120 Silver carp) for each treatment in three replications, and made laboratory four diets with obrocana content of between 27.83% and 28.52% and energy between 439.39 and 445.68 Kilusarh/100 g as it was the bush first free any addition treatment called the second control and treatment contained vitamin E (500 mg/kg) and third-treatment contained linseed oil by 1% and the treatment represented a fourth of all oil and vitamin mentioned the same proportions

Sustainable agriculture was adopted in field experiment in horticulture vegetable field during fall season 2013-2014, to study the effect of spraying nutrients and agral on cabbage hybrid yield, Split –split plot experimental as RCBD design with three replicates at 10 plants for each treatment was adopted, Tropicana and Redball (A and B) transplants (main plot) at 45 day age tranplanted to open field at 25/9/2013 plants, Vegeamino (T2) and Algaton 20 (T3) spraying with 1ml L^-1 three times for two week intervals for each of them while control plants (T1) spraying with distilled water (sub plot), plants covered (sub-sub plot) with agral C1 control plant (C0) (without agral), Results sh

The aim of this study which have been implemented in the AL-mada,an area 40 km southeast of Baghdad in the silty loam soil to evaluate of interaction effect between inoculant with biofertilizers and salicylic acid on Iron  and Manganese availability in soils and concentration in leaves and some vegetative growth indicators As well as flowers and quantitative specifications production quantity of plant Beans when irrigation with river and drainage water, the experiment Carried out by using Spilt-Spilt-Plot Design it was treatment of irrigation is the main plot while the treatment of spraying with salicylic acid is sub -plots plots while the treatment of bio-fertilizers are pl

A field experiment was conducted in Ehssayvillage-Amria-Fallujah district in Al-Anbar governorate during the spring season of 2012 and 2013 in order to study the effect of potassium fertilizer and foliar nutrition of iron and zinc in growth traits of two mung bean (Vigna radiata L.) genotypes. Factorial arrangement was used in RCBD with three replicates.The experiment included three levels of potassium (0, 60 and 120) kg K.ha^-1, four treatments of foliar application of zinc and iron  (0, Fe150, Zn100 and Fe150 + Zn100) mg.L^-1 and two mung bean genotype (Local and indian VC6089A10) .The local ge

This study was aimed to investigate straw stiffness in land races of two- row barley (hordeum vulgarel.). Straw from four landrace populations of barley grown in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq was measured and tested for bending stiffness, showing considerable variation in diameter and in longitudinal bending modulus. In the lower range of diameter, the straw from these landrace populations was highly flexible and was able to lodge without fracture, by curving elastically without fracture or buckling until the head reached the ground. The landrace populations studied contained substantial variation in internode diameter and in the stiffness of the wall material. Selection for internode diameter appeared to have potential f

This research was aimed at conducting a financial evaluation of sheep feeding systems in Al-Ahsa in KSA to identify the feasibility of investing in these projects. By field study, identified two systems for fattening the first system of fattening for 4 months, 3 cycles a year, and the second system of fattening for 6 months, two cycles a year. Secondary data collected by the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture, the annual statistical book, a random sample of sheep breeders in Al-Ahsa governorate. The criteria for financial evaluation of projects are used. The results showed that the system of fattening for 4 months better than the other system, where the internal rate of return (IRR) f

This research was conducted at vegetable field of the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Gardening –College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences - University of Baghdad. The experiment was conducted using Randomized Complete Block Design within split plot arrangement with three replicates. The hybrids (white, yellow, red) represented the main plots, symbolized (HW, HY, HR) and the colored covers of the tunnels (without cover, transparent, red, yellow, blue) represented the sub plots, which symbolized (C0, CW, CR, CY, CB).The statistical analysis revealed significant differences of HR in producing the highest values of the studied traits, such as, leaves number (14.73), leaf area (24.79 dcm²), plant yield (190 g

The aim of this research was to estimate the production function to measure returns to scale and distribution efficiency of  resources used in the production of wheat. Cross sectional data used of a random sample of 130 farmers in Dhi Qar Province. The results of the quantitative analysis of estimating production function showed that the double logarithmic form was the best estimated model based on economic and statistical indicators. However, that form suffered from heteroscedasticity and autocorrelation, so the robust regression technique was chosen. Value of returns to scale was 0.89 and this indicates decreasing returns to scale. This means that production function is in the second stage

Body weights at birth (469), weaning (394) and at six month of age (358) for kids utilized in this study were raised at private project in Duhok governorate, Iraq during two kidding season (2016-2017) and (2017-2018). GLM within SAS programme was used to analyze the data which include the fixed effects (age of doe, year and season of kidding, sex of kid and type of birth, regression on doe weight at kidding, and the regression of later weights of kids on earlier weights) influencing the studied traits. Restricted Maximum Likelihood Method was used to estimate repeatability, heritability, genetic and phenotypic correlations after adjusting the records for fixed effects. Variance components of random effects were tested for positiv

This study was aimed to investigate the effect of new production system of local Kurdish slow-growing broilers with special emphasis on organic technique. A total of 360 one-day-old chicks  mixed local slow-growing broiler genotype were distributed randomly into six treatments: (T1) control, feeding ad libitum commercial diet (indoor), (T2) feeding ad libitum  organic (indoor), (T3) feeding commercial % 75+ pasture, (T4) feeding organic % 75+  pasture, (T5) feeding commercial ad libitum  + pasture, and (T6) feeding organic ad libitum  + pasture. Each treatment consists of 60 birds with three replicates per treatment, 20 birds replicate. The results indicated that organi

This study was designed to study the capacitation of caudal spermatozoa in vitro by different levels of heparin, estrogen for in vitro fertilization (IVF) in the Iraqi local sheep. Results of sperm capcitation (massive motility percentage) by applying three levels of heparin (50, 100, 150) IU in relation to breeding season showed no significant differences during breeding season with the three levels, which were (82.23 ± 0.58), While results by applying the higher level of heparin (150) IU out of breeding season showed significantly (P<0.05) more and active motility Which were (62.07 ± 0.62) than the other levels (56.85 ± 0.61). At the same time applications result of three estrogen levels (20, 40, 60) mg

This study was aimed to investigate the trophic status of the marshes by phytoplankton diversity. The Phytoplankton community and four biodiversity indices were studied in Auda marsh southern Iraq in the period between January 2018 to January 2019. A total of 146 species were identified belonging to 8 classes as follows: Bacillariophyceae (85 taxa), Euglenophyceae (26 taxa), Cyanophyceae (16 taxa), Chlorophyceae (11 taxa), Mediophyceae (3 taxa), Coscinodiscophyceae (2 taxa), Conjugatophyceae (1 taxa), Trebouxiophyceae (1 taxa), and  Dinophyceae (1 taxa). The most predominant diatom was Nitzschia (15 species), and followed by the other genera Phacus (11 species), Navicula  and Euglena

The present study was aimed to biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles by using rhaminolipid produced from local isolate Pseudomonas aeruginosa as reducing and stabilizing agent. Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) synthesized by green method have shown several applications such as biomedical, anticancer, bio sensing, catalysis etc. Characterization study of purified bioemulsifier using thin layer chromatography (TLC) was demonstrated that the biosurfactant contains mono, and di- rhamnolipid with Rf values of 0.86 and 0.36 respectively. Optimization results of biosynthesis silver nanoparticles were revealed that an increasing in intensity of Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR

This study was aimed to highlight the importance of the melt curve-quantitative reverse transcriptase PCR (RT-qPCR) analysis in the detection of astrovirus (AstV) from both negative and positive rotavirus and enterovirus (EVs) samples, and the effectiveness of the AstV infection on the vaccine immunogenicity in the vaccinated infected children.  By RT-qPCR based Sybre green associated- melting curve assay, stool samples of 49 enterovirus suspected patients and of 39 rotavirus suspected patients were tested for AstV. Results of EVs group showed a 29 (59.2%) positive AstV contributed to 26 (89.5%) co-infection with Evs and 3 (10.3%) as a single infection in negative samples for Evs. Furthermore, AstV co-infection percentage is

This study aimed to investigate the of effect aqueous extract of red tea on average of glucose and lipid profile in New Zealand white male rabbits exposed to oxidative stress induced hydrogen peroxide H₂O₂ of drinking water for the duration 30-days. Treatment of  hydrogen peroxide 2% led alone to a significant increase (P≤0.05) in the concentration of glucose level and the concentration of total cholesterol rate and level of triglycerides and a significant decrease (P ≤ 0.05) in the level of estimating the concentration of high-density cholesterol in the blood serum lipoproteins and a significant increase in the con

A  field experiment  was conducted at  the Experimental field , College of  agriculture , during the winter season  of 2005  - 2006  . The objective was to investigate the pattern and capacity of five wheat cultivars as influenced by sowing date . Split- split plot design in the arrangement of RCBD with four replicates was used. Sowing dates (5/11, 25/11 and 15/12) occupied the main plots , while wheat cultivars (Al- Iraq , Tammouz-2 , Abu Ghraib -3 , Tahhadi and IPA-99) were  in   the sub–plots. All wheat cultivars within each sowing date followed similar pattern of tiller production, but they were different in the tiller duration within each sowing , in reaching the maximum tiller num

Pot experiment was carried out at a greenhouse belongs to College of Education-University of Alanbar during winter season of 2013/2014 to investigate the effect of application of different levels of bat guano 0, 4 and 8 gm on some growth traits for two bread wheat triticum aestivum L. Cvs, one is local cv. (Aliz) another one is imported from Australia (Eratom). The experimental treatments were distributed under with factorial experiment arrangement 23 and 43.30 gm and root dry weight of 7.29 and 7.53, for each combination, respectively. It thus could be concluded that the application of bat guano at 8gm alone was the better than 4gm in some traits. However, the genetic affinity of local cv was dominated with 4gm applicat

Field experiment was conducted out Al-Anbar in winter season of 2011/2012 to investigate decision making of selection to the genotypes of caraway Carum carvi L. thus, to introduce in consequent breeding program and test effectiveness of GT Biplot and two model of multi-trait selection, master and against checks jointly in GGE Biplot software for seven genotypes by six traits of caraway. Genotypes were randomly distributed underwith RCBD design with three replicates. Results revealed that these techniques were effective to derived information from data. Where, GT Biplot extracted 92.6% of total variation. Furthermore, it was indicated that was significant association between plant height and umbellets no. which those trai

A field experiment was conducted at the experimental field, Department of Field Crop - College of  Agriculture Abu-Ghraib- University of Baghdad, during summer season at 2012 and 2013, to determine the response of  growth analysis parameters in some cotton cultivars to Integrated Weed Management. A randomized complete block design (RCBD) arranged according to split-plot was used with three replicates, included six weed control treatments as Main-plots where as Sub-plots included eight cotton cultivars. The results showed various to response of  growth analysis parameters to weed control treatments , the treatment o

Two experiments were conducted to study the impact of adding partial acidulated rock phosphate in comparison with traditional phosphate fertilizers. First experiment was conducted to study Kinetics of P release from partially acidulated pock phosphate (30, 40, 50, 60, and 70%) or from TSP and SSP at 80 kg P ha^-1. The results showed that the release of phosphorous from acidified rock phosphate was characterized by 1^st  order kinetics with high (R²) and lowest SEe. TSP gave the highest quantity of soluble phosphate in aliquot compared to SSP. The 2^nd experiment was a field one aimed

Al shehemia project in Wasit Governorate was selected to represent the Irrigated area in middle Iraq to study the temporal change in land suitability for wheat cultivation. Soils of the study area consist mainly, of ntisols and Aridisols soil orders .Historical Soil data were  collected from previous  works  done in 1972 . and some soil propertic were reavoluoted at 2014. Soil and climate were evaluated for wheat cultivation according to Sys ,et al system (1993) and FAO, (1976) which developed by the Italian institute in  2012. The results showed that most of soil units are highly suitable for wheat growing with class S1 and consists about %85.34 from the total area, and %10.90 for N1and N2 classes. Land suita