Using adequate sample size in experimental units improves the efficiency of the research. In the agricultural year of 2004/2005, an experiment was conducted in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil, with the objective of estimating sample size for the following traits: ear length, ear and cob diameter, ear weight, weight of grains per ear, cob weight and the weight of 100 grains, number ...

The development of molecular markers has contributed to progress in identifying the gene(s) responsible for favorable variations in maize studies. In this study, quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping was conducted using simple sequence repeat markers in an F2 sweet corn population from a cross between parental line 1132 and space flight-induced mutant line 751 to identify the loci contributing...

Itaconic acid (IA) is a dicarboxylic acid included in the US Department of Energy's (DOE) 2004 list of the most promising chemical platforms derived from sugars. IA is produced industrially using liquid-state fermentation (LSF) by Aspergillus terreus with glucose as the carbon source. To utilize IA production in renewable resource-based biorefinery, the present study investigated the use of lig...

Abstract Introduction The zinc micronutrient fertilizers have a critical impact on the grain productivity and quality attributes of maize. However, low use-efficiency issues applied Zn-fertilizers are required to be addressed through development novel formulations alternative application techniques. Objectives This field study investigates comparative seed invigoration (including priming coatin...

This study aimed at utilizing unmanned aerial vehicle in place of a conventional hand sprayer for the smart delivery agricultural inputs especially crop nutrients. A field experiment was conducted farms Agricultural Research Station, Bhavanisagar, Tamil Nadu University. There were nine treatments which replicated thrice randomized block design. The include NPK 19:19:19 along with liquid micronu...

Development of ideal breeding and crop management strategies that can improve maize grain yield under tropical environments is crucial. In the temperate regions, such improvements were achieved through use genotypes are adapted to high plant population density stress. However, germplasm has poor tolerance stress, thus it should be improved by introgressing germplasm. The aim this study was esti...

Agro-industrial wastes such as sugarcane bagasse, wheat bran, rice bran, corn cob and wheat straw are cheapest and abundantly available natural carbon sources. The present study was aimed to production of amylase and xylanase simultaneously using agro-industrial waste as the sole carbon source. Seven thermophilic strains of actinomycete were isolated from the mushroom compost. Among of these, s...

in order to evaluate the relationship between morphological characters in rice lines two populations at f3 generation were grown in research field of agricultural sciences and natural resource university, sari, iran, during 2012. statistical analysis on important agronomic traits showed that maximum standard deviation belonged to total grain number followed by filled grains per panicle and grai...