Heterosis and combining ability were calculated for 13 different morphological, yield, quality-related traits of 18 F1 Brassica napus hybrids developed through line × tester mating design using 6 lines 3 testers along with their parents. Line ANOVA revealed highly significant results among all characters except primary branches per plant. ZM-R-2 (tester) was identified as a good general combine...

seed protein profiles of 47 accessions belonging to eleven species and four tribes of grain legumes were studied, by extracting the total proteins from ten single seeds in each accession and performing sds-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. all eleven species were clearly recognizable from their protein banding patterns, but only phaseolus vulgaris expressed high intraspecific variations, ...

the caster bean oil is high value in industry around of world. plant nutrition and plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (pgpr) are important for crop production. an experiment was set up to investigate the effect of nitrogen (n), sulfur (s) fertilizers and pgpr on seed yield production of ricinus commines l. this experiment was carry out in factorial layout based on complete randomize block des...

Cuscuta australis (C. australis) seed and stem are commonly used as dietary supplements in a maize-meal, "Ogi", by the local population for the management of male and female reproductive dysfunctions. This study, as a part of on-going efforts, therefore, evaluated and compared the effects of Low Protein-energy (LP) and Normal Protein-energy (NP) diets on the sperm morphology and characteristics...

introduction intercropping is an old and widespread practice used in low input cropping systems in many areas of the world. in fact, intercropping is claimed to be one of the most significant cropping techniques in sustainable agriculture, and many researches and reviews attribute its utilization to the number of environmental benefits from promoting land biodiversity to diversifying agricultur...

to investigate the effect of wild mustard plant density and nitrogen fertilizer on morphological characters, yield and yield components of canola a split-plot experiment based on a randomized complete block design with 3 replications was carried out in bu-ali sina university of hamedan, in 2009. 4 levels of nitrogen fertilization (100, 150, 200 and 250 kgn h-1) were assigned to main-plots and p...