A field study was conducted to evaluate soybean cultivar sensitivity to Pratylenchus brachyurus and selected nonfumigant nematicides for control of this nematode. 'Essex', a tolerant cultivar, yielded more than 'Forrest' , a sensitive cultivar, in an infested field. Plots treated with aldicarb, carbofuran, and fenamiphos had fewer nematodes 40 days after planting than nontreated plots. Plots pl...

Tree densities have increased greatly in olive orchards over the last few decades. In many annual crop species, density reduces horizontal red/far-red (R/FR) and blue/green (B/G) ratios during canopy development even before direct shading occurs, such changes are known to alter plant morphology. This study with trees evaluated: (1) whether leaf area index (LAI) of neighboring modifies light qua...

this study was conducted to investigate the genotype¬×¬environment interaction effects on yield and yield components of wheat. ten cultivars of wheat were evaluated in 8 environments (combinations of two levels of nitrogen and four irrigation regimes) in growing season of 2006-2007 at the research farm of isfahan university of technology. based on the stability parameters of eberhart and russel...

Simulations of crop yield due to climate change vary widely between models, locations, species, management strategies, and Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs). To understand how adaptation affects change, we developed a meta-model based on 8703 site-level process-model simulations with different future strategies scenarios for maize, rice, wheat soybean. We tested 10 statistical includ...

The Malnad region located in the Western Ghats of Karnataka is known for the cultivation of indigenous rain fed land race cultivar of rice. The present study was to investigate the callogenic and caulogenic potentialities of the two indigenous rice cultivar namely Karimundaga and Kanadatumba using dehusked mature embryo explants. For callus and shoot bud differentiation, the explants were cultu...

The origin and domestication of rice has been a subject of considerable debate in the post-genomic era. Rice varieties have been categorized based on isozyme and DNA markers into two broad cultivar groups, Indica and Japonica. Among other well-known cultivar groups Aus varieties are closer to Indica and Aromatic varieties including Basmati are closer to Japonica, while deep-water rice varieties...

Domesticated Cucurbita has been remarked as one of the plant genera with highest diversity in color, shape and fruit dimensions. Their economic cultural values are related to consumption mature or immature fruits, seeds, flowers, use decoration. The wild ancestor C. maxima, ssp. andreana an actual scattered disjointed distribution, associated megafauna seed disperser syndrome. It was domesticat...

To begin, the methodology followed to reconstruct the origin and history of the olive is presented. The genetic structure (density of alleles across the geographic distribution of individuals) based on allele frequencies of the present oleaster tree in the Mediterranean Basin computed with different methods of comparison with the genetic structure of cultivars grouped based on their geographic ...

The availability of transcriptomic data sequence is a key step for functional genomics studies. Recently, a repertoire of predicted genes of a Japanese cultivar of fig (Ficus carica L.) was released. Because of the great phenotypic variability that can be found in this species, we decided to study another fig genotype, the Italian cv. Dottato, in order to perform comparative studies between the...

The influence of the vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus intraradices (Gi) and superphosphate (P) on penetration, development, and reproduction of Meloidogyne incognita (Mi) was studied on the Mi-susceptible cotton cultivar Stoneville 213 in an environmental chamber at 28 C. Plants were inoculated with Mi eggs at planting or after 28 days and destructively sampled 7, 14, 21, and 28 d...