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<p><strong><br /></strong>Pathogenic agents are one of the causes of post-harvest citrus fruit loss. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of post-harvest treatments with jasmonic acid (ja), epibrassinolide (epiBL), chitosan (chi) and cinnamon essential oil (cin) on induction of resistance to the citrus green mold (Penicillium digitatum (Pers.) Sacc.) and reduction of fungal growth by improving the activity of some antioxidant enzymes in ‘Thomson-Navel’orange. For this purpose, a factorial experiment was conducted in a completely randomized design. Treatments included positive and negative control, jasmonic acid (5, 10, 20 and 40 μl l-1), epibrassinolide (1, 4, 7 and 10 μmol l-1), chitosan (2.5, 5, 7.5 and 10 g l-1) and cinnamon essential oil (250, 500, 750 and 1000 ppm). Characteristics such as lesion diameter and activities of antioxidant enzymes including SOD, APX, CAT and POD were evaluated for a period of 96 hours with 24 hour intervals. The results indicated that all treatments significantly decreased the lesion diameter of fruits. Consequently, chitosan treatments (7.5 and 10 g l-1) and cinnamon essential oil (750 and 1000 ppm) inhibited the spread of fungal infection better than other treatments, and therefore reduced the growth of green mold. Also, different concentrations of (ja) and (chi) increased the activity of SOD and APX enzymes, while different concentrations of (epiBR) and (cin) stimulated the activity of POD and CAT enzymes. Finally, the present study proposes using natural products as an appropriate alternative to fungicides in order to reduce the citrus green mold rot</p>

Rice plays an important role in feeding the world’s population, specially the people who live in developing countries. Rice occupies one third of the world’s crops and provides 35 to 60 percent of calories consumed by 2.7 billion people in the world. More than 90 percent of world’s rice is produced and consumed in Asia. Blast disease caused by Magnaporthe Oryzae is one of the most important diseases of rice in the world. This study was evaluated the Power of ten blast specific SSR Markers in determination genetic diversity between thirty cultivars of Indica rice. The phenotypic evaluation was also performed using Magnaporthe Oryzae in stage of three or four leaves. The total of 23 effective alleles with an average of 2.21 alleles per locus affecting microsatellite markers were amplified in genotypes. The total of 28 alleles was also observed per locus with 2.8 average. Also, the average of PIC was estimated 42.0 for markers. The RM204 marker has the maximum of PIC (0.60) and RM413 marker has the minimum of PIC (0.081). The calculated similarities result between molecular data by Jacard similarity coefficient and UPGMA algorithm have divided thirty studied genotypes into three categories. This analysis between coordinates decides the cluster analysis group. In phenotypic testing, the calculated similarities between phenotypic has also occurred using coefficient similarity Dist and UPGMA algorithm. According to phenotypic evaluation the population was also divided into three groups. According to T-Student test for comparing the phenotypic and genotypic data, SSR markers "RM277" and “RM8225” were linked to semi-susceptible, and resistant phenotype.