Purpose. Betalains, plant pigments of red beet roots, exhibit antioxidant activity and reduce the risks many pathological conditions. However, widespread introduction betalains is hampered by insufficient knowledge their transformations during growing season storage root crops, which was purpose work. Methods. Root crops five varieties table beets were used in studies. The content stability det...

Lennefors, B-L. 2006. Molecular breeding for resistance to rhizomania in sugar beets. Doctor’s dissertation ISSN: 1652-6880, ISBN: 91-576-7255-5 Rhizomania is one of the most destructive sugar beet diseases. It is caused by Beet necrotic yellow vein virus (BNYVV) vectored by the soilborne protoctist Polymyxa betae Keskin. The studies in this thesis evaluated natural and transgenic resistances t...

The influence of polyamines (PAs), putrescine (Put) and spermidine (Spd) on the efficiency gynogenesis in ovule cultures red beet (syn. beetroot) (Beta vulgaris L. vulgaris) cultivar “Czerwona Kula” breeding accessions no. 3/2010 7/2008 was investigated. effect Put process plant regeneration from gynogenetic embryos studied. response to applied PAs strongly dependent genotype. In Kula”, an incr...

Plant tolerance to salinity stress is vital for irrigation scheduling, decision-making, planning and operation, most critically, water resource management. Although there are numerous scientific data on the response of various plants stress, few studies red beet in literature, specifically under Mediterranean conditions. This study aimed investigate effects use, growth, yield parameters, thresh...

The seasonal occurrence of the beet armyworm, Spodoptera exigua (Hübner), and the southern armyworm, Spodoptera eridania (Cramer), was monitored over a 2year period using International Pheromones, Ltd. Moth Traps  baited with rubber septa impregnated with pheromone blends identified from conspecific females and also with pheromone emitted by live female beet armyworm moths. The pheromone blend...

Five cultivars of leaf lettuce (Lactuca sativa L. var. crispa) – Bergamo, Dubáček, Frisby, Lollo Rossa and Redin – were evaluated in two-year experiments carried out at the Faculty of Horticulture in Lednice (Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry in Brno). Experiments were conducted in two trial years, 1998 and 1999; the lettuce was cultivated in three seasons: spring, summer and autumn...