Temperature extremes adversely affect plant growth and productivity. Early planting is an option to avoid heat
stress at the reproductive stage, but maize may then be subjected to chilling stress at stand establishment. An
experiment was therefore conducted to alleviate the devastating effect of chilling stress in maize hybrid Pioneer-
32F10 through pre-sowing seed treatments: magnetic seed stimulation (150 mT for three minutes), hydropriming
(24 hours) and priming with 0.5% ZnSO4 (24 hours). Treated and untreated seeds were sown at early and

Low temperature at stand establishment and high temperature at reproductive stage are involved
in reduction of grain yield of spring maize. A field study was therefore conducted to
evaluate different physiological strategies for improving performance of spring maize under
temperature extremes. Seed priming and foliar spray with 3% moringa leaf extract (MLE)
and 100 mg L-1 kinetin solution alone or in all possible combinations with each other at three
growth stages (knee height, tasseling and grain filling stage) and hydropriming was compared

The influence of burning on the decomposition of rabbit carcasses and on insect succession was investigated in
three different habitats (agricultural, desert, and urban) in order to provide data for estimating the postmortem
interval (PMI). Each site had six carcasses divided into two groups of three rabbits, with the carcasses in one
group being partially burned, while the others were not burned. Carrion reached the dry stage within 5 d in the
desert and urban habitats and 13 d in the agricultural habitat. The unburnt and burnt carcasses also decomposed