Understanding the relationship between land use and surface water quality is necessary for effective water management. We estimated the impacts of catchment-wide land use on water quality during the dry and rainy seasons in the Dongjiang River basin, using remote sensing, geographic information systems and multivariate statistical techniques. The results showed that the 83 sites can be divided ...

Subtropical dry forests are among the most vulnerable biomes to land transformation at a global scale. Among them, the Dry Chaco suffers an accelerated change due to agriculture expansion and intensification. The Dry Chaco ecoregion is characterized by high levels of endemisms and species diversity, which are the result of a variety of climates and reliefs, allowing a wide variety of environmen...

in order to investigate the effects of different irrigation regimes on yield and growth indices of three chickpea cultivars, an experiment was conducted during the 2007 growing season at mashhad (iran). six irrigation regimes including i1; full irrigation, i2; irrigation at branching, i3; irrigation at flowering, i4; irrigation at pod formation, i5; irrigation at seed filling stage and i6; dry ...

1 Hudeiba Research Station (ARC), P. O. Box 31, Eddamer, Sudan 2 National Centre for Research, Environment and Natural Resources Research Institute (ENRRI) P. O. Box 6096 Khartoum, Sudan *Corresponding Author’s E-mail: [email protected] The performance of two chickpea in response to three Rhizobium strains was evaluated. The main objective of the work was to study the effect of inoculation ...

Seeds of three approved desi chickpea (Cicer arietinum L) varieties viz., Punjab 2000, Bittal 98 and CM 72 grown in arid zones of Pakistan were analysed for their biochemical and physicochemical compositions. The moisture contents ranged from 6.30±0.40-7.60±0.30 g/100g, dry matter from 92.30±0.69-92.70±0.41 g/100g, ash from 3.10±0.01-3.22±0.02 g/100g, crude protein from 22.19±0.11-22.50±0.43 g/...

The Ilıca area, which came under Turkish rule with the Saruhanoğulları Principality and has been scene of settlement since ancient times, become an area where various agricultural products, especially cereals legumes, are produced thanks to its fertile land. In study based on cereal legume production in 16th century, conditions wheat, barley, vetch, millet, paddy, chickpea, lentil, cowpea, were...

An experiment was conducted to examine the extent of root and canopy interference of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) with sowthistle (Sonchus oleraceus L.). Sowthistle was surrounded with either two or eight chickpea plants. There were different types of competition: no competition, shoot competition, root competition and full competition (root and shoot). The performance of sowthistle grown in f...

fusarium wilt of chickpea, caused by fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris, is one of the most important diseases of this plant in iran. in order to control this disease biologically, fluorescent pseudomonas were isolated from the rhizosphere of chickpea plants and enumerated using king’s medium b (kb). antifungal activity of 80 bacterial isolates against fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris was evalu...

The grain quality of chickpea in Iran is low and instable, which may be attributed to the evolution of cultivars with a narrow genetic base making them vulnerable to biotic stresses. Four chickpea varieties from diverse geographic origins were chosen and arranged in a randomized complete block design. Mesorhizobium sp. cicer strain SW7 was added to all the chickpea seeds. Chickpea seeds were pl...