Pruning is crucial to balance productivity and fruit quality in blueberry orchards. Slight, conventional and severe pruning treatments were applied on 4and 5-year old bluberry plants cultivar ‘Brigitta’ to evaluate their effect on yield, leaf area, gas exchange and fruit load as driver of fruit quality traits. Yield and berries per plant decreased with increasing pruning severity, whereas canop...

Biofuels provide a promising route of producing energy while reducing reliance on petroleum. Developing sustainable liquid fuel production from cellulosic feedstock is a major challenge and will require significant breeding efforts to maximize plant biomass production. Our approach to elucidating genes and genetic pathways that can be targeted for improving biomass production is to exploit the ...

yield in most crops is resulted from a number of physiological processes which occurred during plant growth and development. these processes are realized at morphological, pheonological and physiological levels and often are controllded by many genes. in order to determine the effective of physiological traits onseed yield of soybean (glycine max l.) cultivars and their relationship with yield ...

in order to evaluate the effect of water deficit stress on agronomic and morpho-physiological traits in eight populations of the triticum urartu species an experiment was experiment was conducted using a split plot design based on a randomized complete block design with three replications at research station of faculty of agriculture, tabriz university in 2010-2011. analysis of variance indicat...

We assessed the total nitrogen (N) concentrations of 28 still surface water (lake and pond), and 42 flowing surface water (river), monitoring sites under 29 typical terrestrial ecosystems of the Chinese Ecosystem Research Network (CERN) using monitoring data collected between 2004 and 2009. The results showed that the median total N concentrations of still surface water were significantly highe...