vadieh cheraghali

Global crises have turned the development of the national economy into a fundamental problem. One of the ways to achieve economic development is to improve the commercialization mechanisms of scientific research. By looking at the performance of agricultural researches in the past years, it can be seen that, contrary to the existing capabilities in technology development, many of them have failed in the commercialization of technology. The purpose of this research was to design a model for the commercialization of research findings of agricultural research institutes in the form of a strategic model. The current research is a part of descriptive-survey research in terms of practical purpose and in terms of implementation method, and in terms of qualitative data collection. The statistical population of this research was the academic faculty members of the country's agricultural and commercial research institutes in the field of commercialization. Sampling was followed by the snowball method until theoretical saturation, which included a total of 16 experts. In this research, a semi-structured interview was used as a data collection tool and an approach based on database theory and ATLAS.ti 8 software was used. According to the research findings in the qualitative part, 212 codes were identified in the form of 24 categories, which were placed in the form of causal conditions, background conditions, intervening factors, strategies and consequences. The findings of the research showed that management, laws and regulations, foresight and infrastructure development are the most important factors in the commercialization of research projects.

Root rot and vine decline caused by Monosporascus cannonballus is a major challenge for melon production world-wide. In recent years، a disease suggested to be related to this pathogen was observed 1-2 weeks prior to harvest in many melon production areas across Iran. In this study، melon plants with symptoms of chlorosis، wilting، decline and/or sudden death were collected from melon growing areas. Pieces of the roots with rot symptoms or discoloration were surface-sterilized and placed on PDA culture medium. DNA was extracted from the rest of the sterilized roots and used in polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using specific primers designed from ribosomal DNA of M. cannonballus. The pathogenicity of the fungus for 24 of its isolates was examined on a muskmelon genotype، Zard-e-Garmsar. In addition، the presence of M. cannonballus was tested on the symptomless melon plants at early growing stages as well as those inoculated with this pathogen using the specific primers. The presence of M. cannonballus was confirmed in 95 melon samples (63% of total samples tested) based on the morphological criteria of the isolated fungus and molecular techniques، where a unique band specific to this pathogen was amplified in diagnostic PCR. M. cannonballus was also detected in the roots of symptomless and inoculated melon plants as early as 2 days post-inoculation. This study demonstrated that M. cannonballus is the major causal organism for melon collapse in all sampling regions and that the pathogen is detectable in melon plants suspected of infection using molecular tools at early growth stages.