In recent years, egg production has had an intense growth in Brazil, and Brazilian consumption per capita significantly increased the last decade. To reduce sanitary financial risks, decisions regarding health status of flock must be made based on objective criteria. Our aim was to determine main “input” variables for prediction performance commercial laying breeder flocks using ANN model. The ...

This experiment was conducted with twenty-five gladiolus hybrids along a check at the research farm of Division Floriculture & Landscaping, ICAR, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi to study performance and suitability for different traits. The mean hybrid data highly significant all characters studied; however, results indicated that early flowering seen in six such as Smokey...

The use of plant functional traits has become increasingly popular in ecological studies because plant functional traits help to understand key ecological processes in plant species and communities. This also includes changes in diversity, inter- and intraspecific interactions, and relationships of species at different spatiotemporal scales. Leaf traits are among the most important traits as th...

background: basil (ocimum basilicum l.), a member of the lamiaceae family, has traditionally been used as a medicinal plant in the treatment of headaches, coughs, diarrhea, constipation, warts, worms, and kidney malfunctions. objective: to investigate the foliar application effects of bio-stimulators and bio-fertilizers on morphological and phytochemical traits of basil (ocimum basilicum l.). m...

Synopsis High rank correlations existed between estimated breeding value for birth weight direct, weaning weight direct, postweaning gain direct, birth weight maternal, and weaning weight maternal from a genomicpolygenic model that used all phenotypic, pedigree, and genotypic information and a polygenic model. Variance components and genetic parameters from these two models were similar for all...

Hybridization produces strong evolutionary forces. In hybrid zones, selection can differentially occur on traits and selection intensities may differ among hybrid generations. Understanding these dynamics in crop-wild hybrid zones can clarify crop-like traits likely to introgress into wild populations and the particular hybrid generations through which introgression proceeds. In a field experim...

ABSTRACT The Karnal bunt pathogen, Tilletia indica, is heterothallic and depends on encounters on wheat spikes between airborne secondary sporidia of different mating types for successful infection and reproduction. This life history characteristic results in reduced reproductive success for lower population densities. Such destabilizing density dependence at low population levels has been desc...