Including tropical croplands in a terrestrial biosphere model: application to West Africa - Alexis Berg; Benjamin Sultan; Nathalie de Noblet-Ducoudré (Climatic Change, 2011)

Does high serum iron level induce low bone mass in sickle cell anemia ? - Mir Sadat-Ali; Osama Sultan; Haifa Al-Turki; Abdulmohsen AlElq (BioMetals, 2011)

Weather regimes over Senegal during the summer monsoon season using self-organizing maps and hierarchical ascendant classification. Part I: synoptic time scale - A. K. Guèye; Serge Janicot; A. Niang; S. Sawadogo; Benjamin Sultan; A. Diongue-Niang; S. Thiria (Climate Dynamics, 2011)

Evaluation of the Breast Cancer Train the Trainer Program for Nurses in Turkey - Özgul Karayurt; Ayla Akkaş Gürsoy; Sultan Taşçı; Fatma Gündoğdu (Journal of Cancer Education, 2010)

Protective effect of Raphanus sativus on H2O2 induced oxidative damage in human lymphocytes - Syed Sultan Beevi; Lakshmi Narasu Mangamoori; Lingam Venkata Reddy (World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2010)

Effect of tropical browse leaves supplementation on rumen enzymes of sheep and goats fed Dichanthium annulatum grass-based diets - Sultan Singh; S. S. Kundu (Tropical Animal Health and Production, 2010)

Nigella sativa : Reduces the Risk of Various Maladies - Masood Sadiq Butt; Muhammad Tauseef Sultan (Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 2010)

Nutrient digestibility and feedlot performance of lambs fed diets varying protein and energy contents - Javed I. Sultan; Asif Javaid; Muhammad Aslam (Tropical Animal Health and Production, 2010)

Mycotoxigenic fungi in peanuts from different geographic regions of Egypt - Yousef Sultan; Naresh Magan (Mycotoxin Research, 2010)

Acaricidal, repellent and oviposition deterrent activities of Datura stramonium L. against adult Tetranychus urticae (Koch) - Nabi Alper Kumral; Sultan Çobanoğlu; Cem Yalcin (Journal of Pest Science, 2010)

The investigation on accumulation levels of proline and stress parameters of the maize (Zea mays L.) plants under salt and water stress - Sultan Köşkeroğlu; Atilla Levent Tuna (Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, 2010)

hs-CRP: A potential marker for hypertension in Kashmiri population - M. Shafi Dar; A. A. Pandith; A. S. Sameer; M. Sultan; A. Yousuf; Syed Mudassar (Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry, 2010)

Multi‐scales and multi‐sites analyses of the role of rainfall in cotton yields in West Africa - Benjamin Sultan; Marthe Bella‐Medjo; Alexis Berg; Philippe Quirion; Serge Janicot (International Journal of Climatology, 2010)
Cotton is the main tradable crop of West and Central African countries, representing for some countries the main exported agricultural product. Cotton is then of major concern since it represents an important source of income, accounting for more than a tenth of total exports. Moreover, the subsector as a whole is essential for rural poverty reduction. Since cotton is a rainfed crop in these countries, its yield is closely related to climate, in particular to rainfall variability. The objective of this study is to point out the role of rainfall variability in cotton yields. Our approach consists in taking two completely different sites in the analysis of the climate‐yields relationships, i.e. an experimental plot in Mali with a long‐term historical yield‐survey and farmers' yields in 28 administrative units in Cameroon. We found that the same rainfall parameters (rainy season onset and length) are major drivers for the year‐to‐year and the spatial distribution of cotton productivity, even if the role of rainfall variability is strongly reduced in farmers' exploitations where other non‐climatic factors such as human management, biotic stresses, pests, etc., impact crop productivity. The link between rainfall and cotton yields seems to depend on the mean climate since the driest cotton areas in Cameroon are the most sensitive to climate variability. The coherence of the results from the two very different situations gives us some confidence in the generalization of our findings to the whole West and Central Africa. Our study shows also that the aggregation of yield data from the local scale to the national scale tends to smooth the non‐climatic variability and highlight the role of climate in the year‐to‐year variability of cotton yields. These results are important in working towards the predictability of crop yields using rainfall information, in particular to highlight the most salient rainfall parameters that are needed in a forecast system. Copyright © 2009 Royal Meteorological Society

Germplasm conservation and quantitative estimation of podophyllotoxin and related glycosides of Podophyllum hexandrum - Phalisteen Sultan; A. S. Shawl; Arif Jan; B. Hamid; H. Irshad (Journal of Crop Science and Biotechnology, 2009)

Hydrogeophysical study of the El Qaa Plain, Sinai, Egypt - Sultan Awad Sultan; Mahmoud Ismail Mohameden; Fernando M. Santos (Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 2009)

Seasonal evolution of the West African heat low: a climatological perspective - C. Lavaysse; C. Flamant; S. Janicot; D. J. Parker; J.-P. Lafore; B. Sultan; J. Pelon (Climate Dynamics, 2009)

Groundwater exploration and evaluation by using geophysical interpretation (case study: Al Qantara East, North Western Sinai, Egypt) - Sultan Awad Sultan; Hatem M. Mekhemer; Fernando M. Santos (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2009)

Comparative studies and identification of camptothecin produced by an endophyte at shake flask and bioreactor - Suriya Rehman; A.S. Shawl; Amardeep Kour; Phalisteen Sultan; Khurheed Ahmad; Ravi Khajuria; G.N. Qazi (Natural Product Research, 2009)

Contrasting patterns of transgenerational plasticity in ecologically distinct congeners - Sonia E. Sultan; Kasey Barton; Amity M. Wilczek (Ecology, 2009)
Stressful parental environments can influence offspring size and development either adaptively or maladaptively, yet little is known about species' differences in this complex aspect of phenotypic plasticity. We performed a reciprocal split‐brood experiment to compare transgenerational plasticity in response to drought stress in two closely related annual plant species. We raised inbred replicate parent plants of eight genotypes per species in dry vs. moist soil to generate offspring of each genetic line that differed only in parental environment, then monitored seedling development in both dry and moist conditions. Individuals of the two species expressed contrasting patterns of transgenerational plasticity for traits important to seedling drought tolerance. In Polygonum persicaria , a weedy generalist found in moist, dry, and variably dry sites, drought‐stressed plants produced offspring with longer and more rapidly extending root systems and greater biomass when growing in dry soil. In contrast, in P. hydropiper , a non‐weedy congener restricted to moist habitats, the offspring of drought‐stressed parents had reduced root system development and seedling biomass in dry soil. In P. persicaria , transgenerational and immediate adaptive plasticity combined to produce drought‐adapted seedling phenotypes. These results make clear that characteristic patterns of transgenerational plasticity can contribute to ecological diversity among species.

Garlic: Nature's Protection Against Physiological Threats - Masood Sadiq Butt; Muhammad Tauseef Sultan; Mehmood S. Butt; Javaid Iqbal (Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 2009)

Overpressure within upper continental slope sediments from CPTU data, Gulf of Lion, NW Mediterranean Sea - S. Lafuerza; N. Sultan; M. Canals; J. Frigola; S. Berné; G. Jouet; M. Galavazi; F. J. Sierro (International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2009)

Quantifying the role of sandy–silty sediments in generating slope failures during earthquakes: example from the Algerian margin - Gabriela Dan; Nabil Sultan; Bruno Savoye; Jacques Deverchere; Karim Yelles (International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2009)

Deep sea in situ excess pore pressure and sediment deformation off NW Sumatra and its relation with the December 26, 2004 Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake - Nabil Sultan; Antonio Cattaneo; Jean-Claude Sibuet; Jean-Luc Schneider (International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2009)

Green Tea: Nature's Defense against Malignancies - Masood Sadiq Butt; Muhammad Tauseef Sultan (Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 2009)

Heavy Metal Residues in the Milk of Cattle and Goats During Winter Season - Ijaz Javed; Ibadullah Jan; Faqir Muhammad; Zia-ur-Rahman; M. Zargham Khan; Bilal Aslam; Javed Iqbal Sultan (Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 2009)

Comparative activity against pathogenic bacteria of the root, stem, and leaf of Raphanus sativus grown in India - Syed Sultan Beevi; Lakshmi Narasu Mangamoori; Naveen Anabrolu (World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2009)

2-D and 3-D resistivity in the area of the Menkaure Pyramid Giza, Egypt - Abbas Mohamed Abbas; Sultan Awad Sultan; Fernando A. Monteiro Santos (Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 2008)

Isolation and identification of an endophytic strain of Fusarium oxysporum producing podophyllotoxin from Juniperus recurva - Amardeep Kour; Abdul S. Shawl; Suriya Rehman; Phalisteen Sultan; Parvaiz H. Qazi; Pankaj Suden; Ravi K. Khajuria; Vijeshwar Verma (World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2008)

A hydrogeophysical investigation of the Ain Mousa area, near Cairo, Egypt - S. A. Sultan; S. A. Mansour; F. A. M. Santos (Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 2008)

The role of sedimentation rate and permeability in the slope stability of the formerly glaciated Norwegian continental margin: the Storegga slide model - Didier Leynaud; Nabil Sultan; Jürgen Mienert (Landslides, 2007)

No negative impact of reduced leptin secretion on bone metabolism in male decathletes - Laurent Maïmoun; Olivier Coste; Anne-Marie Puech; Edouard Peruchon; Audrey Jaussent; Françoise Paris; Michel Rossi; Charles Sultan; Denis Mariano-Goulart (European Journal of Applied Physiology, 2007)

The cerebellum: Comparative and animal studies - Fahad Sultan; Mitchel Glickstein (The Cerebellum, 2007)

Cytotoxic and genotoxic effects of Lavandula stoechas aqueous extracts - Tülay Aşkin Çelik; Özlem Sultan Aslantürk (Biologia, 2007)

Distribution of Metals and Arsenic in Soils of Central Victoria (Creswick-Ballarat), Australia - K. Sultan (Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 2007)

Efficiency of carrier-phase integer ambiguity resolution for precise GPS positioning in noisy environments - Liqiang Zhu; Ying-Cheng Lai; Mayur Shah; Sultan Mahmood (Journal of Geodesy, 2007)

Anti-mitotic and anti-genotoxic effects of Plantago lanceolata aqueous extract on Allium cepa root tip meristem cells - Tülay Aşkin Çelik; Özlem Sultan Aslantürk (Biologia, 2006)

Seasonal Changes in Arsenic Concentrations and Hydrogeochemistry of Canadian Creek, Ballarat (Victoria, Australia) - Khawar Sultan; Kim Dowling (Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2006)

Significance of enhanced infiltration due to groundwater extraction on the disappearance of a headwater lagoon system: Toluca Basin, Mexico - D. L. Rudolph; R. Sultan; J. Garfias; R. G. McLaren (Hydrogeology Journal, 2006)

Chromate Reduction Capability of a Gram Positive Bacterium Isolated from Effluent of Dying Industry - S. Sultan; S. Hasnain (Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 2005)

One-Year pollen and spore calendars of Saudi Arabia Al-Khobar, Abha and Hofuf - Syed M. Hasnain; Khatija Fatima; Abdulrahman Al-Frayh; Sultan T. Al-Sedairy (Aerobiologia, 2005)

Evaluating the quality and storage stability of fish burgers during frozen storage - Ismail M. AL-BULUSHI; Stefan KASAPIS; Hamed AL-OUFI; Sultan AL-MAMARI (Fisheries Science, 2005)

Prevalence of airborne basidiospores in three coastal cities of Saudi Arabia - Syed M. Hasnain; Khatija Fatima; Abdulrahman Al-Frayh; Sultan T. Al-Sedairy (Aerobiologia, 2005)

The effect of different initial densities of nematode (Meloidogyne javanica) on the build-up of Pasteuria penetrans population - Daim Ali Darban; Mumtaz Ali Pathan; Abdul Ghaffar Bhatti; Sultan Ahmed Maitelo (Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE B, 2005)

Rural women and agrotourism in the context of sustainable rural development: A case study from Turkey - Nevin Akpinar; ?lkden Talay; Co?kun Ceylan; Sultan Gndz (Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2005)

Influence of groundwater level change on vegetation coverage and their spatial variation in arid regions - Sultan Danyar; Song Yudong; Marina Jumakeld (Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2004)

A Computational Tensegrity Model Predicts Dynamic Rheological Behaviors in Living Cells - Cornel Sultan; Dimitrije Stamenović; Donald E. Ingber (Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 2004)

Cladosporium and respiratory allergy: Diagnostic implications in Saudi Arabia - Syed M. Hasnain; Abdulrahman S. Al-Frayh; Abdulrahman Al-Suwaine; Mohammad O. Gad-El-Rab; Khatija Fatima; Sultan Al-Sedairy (Mycopathologia, 2004)

Pseudomonad Strains Exhibiting High Level Cr(VI) Resistance and Cr(VI) Detoxification Potential - S. Sultan; S. Hasnain (Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 2003)

Analysis of sedimentary facies and depositional environments of the Permian Gondwana sequence in borehole GDH-45, Khalaspir Basin, Bangladesh - H. M. Zakir Hossain; M. Sultan-Ul-Islam; Syed Samsuddin Ahmed; Ismail Hossain (Geosciences Journal, 2002)

Abstracts of presentations at the 22nd Congress of the Israeli Phytopathological Society February 12–13,2001 ARO, The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel - D. Shtienberg; M. Reuveni; N. Shegalov; D. Shegalov; D. Eshel; Ruth Ben-Arie; D. Prusky; Nadia Korolev; J. Katan; Talma Katan; A. Sharon; L. Oren; et al. (Phytoparasitica, 2001)

Central components in the antinociceptive activity of dipyrone in mice - Fatma Sultan Kiliç; Kevser Erol (Inflammopharmacology, 2000)

Reporter Cell Lines to Monitor Steroid and Antisteroid Potential of Environmental Samples - Patrick Balaguer; Hélène Fenet; Virginie Georget; Franck Comunale; Béatrice Térouanne; Rodolphe Gilbin; Elena Gomez; Anne-Marie Boussioux; Charles Sultan; Michel Pons; Jean-Claude Nicolas; Claude Casellas (Ecotoxicology, 2000)

Use of Mass Vaccination with a Reduced Dose of REV 1 Vaccine for Brucella melitensis Control in a Population of Small Ruminants - D.W. Scharp; S.A. Sultan Al Khalaf; M.W. Al Muhanna; R.A. Cheema; W. Godana (Tropical Animal Health and Production, 1999)

Physiological response to complex environments in annual Polygonum species of contrasting ecological breadth - S. E. Sultan; A. M. Wilczek; D. L. Bell; G. Hand (Oecologia, 1998)

The effects of anaplerotic substrates on D-3-hydroxybutyrate metabolism in the heart - A.M.N. Sultan (Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 1997)

Effect of cycloheximide on some physiological changes associated with senescence of detached flowers of Iris germanica L. - Sheikh M. Sultan; Sikandar Farooq (Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, 1997)