most sweet cherry (prunus avium l.) cultivars are self-incompatible and have problems of ‎fertilization and fruit set. to produce commercial crops they need compatible and suitable ‎pollinizers. the compatibility of “zarde daneshkadeh”, “protiva”, “sorati lavasan”, “haj-yosefy” ‎and “meshkin shahr” cultivars with “shoa-o-saltaneh” as seed parent studied in a randomized ‎complete block design (r...

rapd markers through an application of 23 decamer primers were employed for genetic diversity analysis of some sweet cherry cultivars. bands with good resolution and high repeatability were selected for evaluations. the 23 primers produced 188 bands, among which, 153 were polymorphic. cluster analysis of the cultivars was performed based on the presence (1) and absence (0) of the bands, using j...

Fruit quality of five scab resistant apple cultivars (Enterprise, Liberty, Nova Easygro, Sir Prize and Rewena) suitable for organic growing systems were tested. External and internal fruit quality was assessed through standard parameters (fruit weight, firmness, soluble solids, malic acid) and sensorial quality by panel tests (fruit size, shape and colour; hardness, texture, juiciness, sweet/ac...

To increase the availability to consumers and add more value to persimmon (Diospyros kaki L.), which is a very perishable and seasonal fruit and in order to identify which cultivars grown in subtropical regions are more suitable for processing in the form of juice and jelly, as well as understand what the consumer profile is for these products, the objective of this study was to evaluate the in...

BACKGROUND Viral diseases are the second most significant biotic stress for sweet potato, with yield losses reaching 20% to 40%. Over 30 viruses have been reported to infect sweet potato around the world, and 11 of these have been detected in China. Most of these viruses were detected by traditional detection approaches that show disadvantages in detection throughput. Next-generation sequencing...

Citrus variegated chlorosis (CVC) is a disease of sweet orange [Citrus sinensis (L.)] caused by Xylella fastidiosa subsp. pauca, a phytopathogenic bacterium that has been shown to infect all sweet orange cultivars. Xylella fastidiosa is a fastidious Gram-negative, xylem-limited bacterium which was rapidly disseminated by infected nursery trees and by several xylem-feeding sharpshooter insect ve...

blast (magnaporthe grisea) is the most important disease of rice in mazandaran province, north of iran, which causes severe damages annually on susceptible cultivars. tarom mahalli is a local aromatic cultivar with high cooking quality and marketability, but very susceptible to blast. to protect this cultivar and similar susceptible cultivars against rice blast, farmers have to use high amounts...

Sweet potato is infested by root-knot and reinform nematodes. Root-knot nematode infestation in sweet potato is studied in detail. A number of resistant varieties are released in sweet potato from USA, Japan and China. A number of germplasm accessions and cultivars/ varieties were found resistant to the nematodes in Peru. Studies carried out by the authors indicated that sweet potato germplasm ...