Image identification technique is a newly emerge corn disease diagnosis. Disease and background can be isolated base on the image segmentation. The accuracy of the identification result has important impact on corn quality and yield. Plant disease often appears in leaves. In this study, an image extraction algorithm of rice leaf which is based on green component and use the threshold of grey-sc...

BACKGROUND Young green barley leaf is one of the richest sources of antioxidants and has been widely consumed for health management in Japan. In this study, we examined whether oral administration of young green barley leaf has an antidepressant effect on the forced swimming test in mice. MATERIALS AND METHODS Mice were individually forced to swim in an open cylindrical container, one hour af...

                The present study was undertaken to evaluate direct and indirect selection criteria for the improvement of grain yield and quality components in Chenopodium quinoa Willd. Correlated response (CR) and relative selection efficiency (RSE) were estimated for grain yield and three quality components, grain protein, grain carotenoid and leaf carotenoid based on different contributing ...

(3Z)-Hexenol, which is commonly called leaf al­ cohol, and (2£)-hexenal, also called leaf aldehyde, are widely distributed in fresh leaves, vegetables and fruits. They are mainly responsible for the socalled “green odour” characteristic of leaves, along with other C6-compounds such as (3£")-, and (2£)-hexenols, their corresponding aldehydes (3Z)-, (3£")-hexenals, «-hexanol and «-hexanal. Thus, ...

kochia is a halophyte plant and is a good source of forage for livestock under saline irrigation. in order to investigate the salinity effect on morphological and forage characteristics of kochia, an experiment was conducted. three saline waters (5.2, 10.5 and 23.1 ds m-1) and three kochia ecotypes (birjand, borujerd and sabzevar) were allocated as main and sub plots, respectively, in a split p...

The potential of an experimental imaging spectroscopy system with high spatial (0.16–0.28 mm2) and spectral resolution (5–13 nm) was explored for early detection of nitrogen (N) stress. From June through October 2000, a greenhouse experiment was conducted with 15 Lolium perenne L. mini-swards and 5 N treatments. Images were recorded twice a week. With the experimental system, spectra of grass l...

Chlorophyll (Chl) b is a ubiquitous accessory pigment in land plants, green algae, and prochlorophytes. This pigment is synthesized from Chl a by chlorophyllide a oxygenase and plays a key role in adaptation to various environments. This study characterizes a rice mutant, pale green leaf (pgl), and isolates the gene PGL by using a map-based cloning approach. PGL, encoding chlorophyllide a oxyge...

Most of the sugarcane (interspecific hybrids of Saccharum sp.) production in Florida is on organic soils. Supplemental phosphorus (P) fertilizer is often applied for optimum yields, but producers are required to reduce P levels in farm drainage waters. The objectives of this study were to relate optimum leaf P tissue concentration with yield in organic soil, and to determine optimum leaf sampli...

The floating system (FL) is a common soilless method for baby-leaf production, whereas the ebb and flow (EF) has been proposed as an alternative. Both of them allow managing plant saline stress while preventing reduction in growth yield increasing product quality. oak-leaf lettuce response to growing conditions (hydroponics, salinity) interaction with climate genotype little studied. Two experi...