Background Breeding of cereals has been particularly active in the last hundred years, resulting in spectacular improvements in agronomic, resistance or technological traits. Unfortunately for predisposed consumers wheat may induce allergenicity either food or respiratory. More recently, the genetic modification (GM) technology for crop improvement has emerged and although GM wheats are not cul...

Parsley root has been used medicinally since ancient times for possible medicinal qualities including antioxidative, antimicrobial, laxative, antihy-perlipidemic, anticoagulant and antihepatotoxic (1). The parsley importance is attributed to its high vitamins content (mainly vitamins C), anti-oxidants, and some mineral elements such as iron, as well as volatile oils that play an important role ...

Background: Physical characteristics of crops play an important role in designing the required machinery and apparatus for planting, harvesting, transport, processing and also storing. The aim of this study was to determine physical characteristics of some native rice varieties cultivated in northern Iran, namely Gerde, Shafagh, Tarom-e-Hashemi, Shiroodi and Keshvari. Methods: Some geometrical...

The notable growth in the use of avocado oil nutritional and cosmetic field was main objective to valorize production important varieties avocados existing Morocco by analyzing its chemical composition fatty acids, sterols, tocopherols physico-chemical properties. Oleic acid is oil; they constitute between 50 65% total acids. study unsaponifiable fraction revealed that contains 3259.9–5378.8 mg...

Cultivated potato (Solanum tuberosum L.), a vegetatively propagated autotetraploid, has been bred for distinct market classes, including fresh market, pigmented, and processing varieties. Breeding efforts have relied on phenotypic selection of populations developed from intra- and intermarket class crosses and introgressions of wild and cultivated Solanum relatives. To retrospectively explore t...

BACKGROUND Kala bhat (Black soybean) is an important legume crop in Uttarakhand state, India, due to its nutritional and medicinal properties. In the current study, the genetic variabilities present in Kala bhat were estimated using SSR markers and its variability was compared with other improved soybean varieties cultivated in Uttarakhand state, India. RESULTS Seventy-five genotypes cultivat...

Variability in the cultivated germplasm for economic traits such as resistance to rice tungro virus, sheathblight, yellow stem borer, drought and salt tolerance is limited. This necessitated search for the genes in secondary and tertiary gene pool of genus Oryza. Fortunately, wild species are an important reservoir ofuseful genes for resistance to major disease, pest and tolerance t...

Numerous recent investigations have shown that common buckwheat is photosensitive under short-day conditions. A study of buckwheat accessions from global plant genetics resources collection of VIR (N.I. Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry) has demonstrated that the strongest photoperiodic response is observed when buckwheat genotypes adapted to cultivation in low latitudes (tropics, su...