Soil salinity is a major environmental stress that adversely affects the growth, development, productivity, and quality of crop species, in particular, arid semi-arid regions. Identification chromosomal regions associated with agronomic traits under crucial for improving tolerance wheat. Genome-wide association study (GWAS) was employed to evaluate 289 elite lines Wheat Association Mapping Init...

Sunflower is one of the most important oilseed plants in world and its oil has nutritional high economic value. Selection high-yielding hybrids sunflower breeding. In this regard, 11 new along with four cultivars were evaluated a randomized complete block design replications during 2018–2020 growing seasons. The phenological agronomic traits including days to flowering, ripening, plant height, ...

In Arabidopsis, the miR171-GRAS module has been clarified as key player in meristem maintenance. However, the knowledge about its role in fruit crops like tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) remains scarce. We previously identified tomato SlGRAS24 as a target gene of Sly-miR171. To study the role of this probable transcription factor, we generated transgenic tomato plants underexpressing SlGRAS24, ov...

Cotton is the world's leading cash crop, and genetic improvement of fiber yield and quality is the primary objective of cotton breeding program. In this study, we used various approaches to identify QTLs related to fiber yield and quality. Firstly, we constructed a four-way cross (4WC) mapping population with four base core cultivars, Stoneville 2B, Foster 6, Deltapine 15 and Zhongmiansuo No.7 ...

The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health data were used to test predictions from life history theory. We hypothesized that (1) in young adulthood an emerging life history strategy would exist as a common factor underlying many life history traits (e.g., health, relationship stability, economic success), (2) both environmental harshness and unpredictability would account for unique v...

There has been very commonly an absence of correspondence between modern systems of soil taxonomic classification and the agronomical qualities of the soils. For this reason, this study has resorted to tapping the knowledge of the farmers that know best these agronomical properties in a practical sense, in order to obtain an agronomical classification of the soils. This rural classification has...

The current study was conducted to identify the best parents with good agronomical features and contrasting characteristics for sucking pest resistance develop a population that can be used Quantitative Trait Loci mapping of component traits. Initial attempts at this university have enabled five potential (viz., KC3, NDLH 1938, CO18, K12, RG8) improved yield characters they were crossed recentl...