The citrus industry is challenged by numerous arthropods, yet extensive research has not been conducted to determine the potential use of entomopathogenic fungi as endophytes in pest management strategies. Two inoculation methods (i.e., soil drench and foliar spray) using a suspension Beauveria bassiana (strain PPRI 5339 contained Velifer®) containing 4 × 107 conidia mL−1 0.01% Tween 80 were on...

ABSTRACT Aspergillus flavus can be divided into the S and L strains on the basis of sclerotial morphology. On average, S strain isolates produce greater quantities of aflatoxins than do L strain isolates. Sclerotia of the S strain were observed in commercial seed cotton from western Arizona. Greenhouse tests were performed to better define sclerotial formation in developing bolls. Eight S strai...

use of plant growth promoting bacteria (pgpb) and high quality of seed as agricultural inputs play important roles in sustainable crop production. to study the effects of different levels of seed aging and pgpb's application on field emergence, seedling establishment and yield of two red kidney bean cultivars in field conditions, an experiment was carried out as factorial based in a rcbd d...

Lentil plays a major role in the food and nutritional security of low income Ethiopian families because of the high protein content of their seed; however, their productivity typically is low largely due to soil fertility limitations. Field and pot experiments were conducted during the 2011 cropping season to determine the effectiveness of Rhizobium strains on two cultivars of lentil in Souther...

The influence of a supplementary bradyrhizobial inoculation after an initial seed slurry inoculation with the same strain on nodulation and N(2) fixation in soybeans was examined in the greenhouse. The plants were grown in a Typic Eutrocrepts soil: sand mixture containing 25, 65, or 83 mg of N per kg (i.e., native soil N plus N-labeled ammonium sulfate). Harvests were made at early flowering an...

Introduction The purpose of a seed train is the generation of an adequate number of cells for the inoculation of a production bioreactor. This is timeand cost-intensive: From volumes used for cell thawing or cell line maintenance the cell number has to be increased. The cells are usually run through many cultivation systems which become larger with each passage (e.g. T-flasks, roller bottles or...

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 ...

Two hundred Pinus muricata trees, located within a native forest near Monterey, California, were inoculated with the pitch canker pathogen. Treated branches were removed 10–13 weeks following the initial inoculation, and the lengths of the lesions that developed at each of the inoculation sites were measured. Results indicated that bishop pine exhibits a wide range of variation in susceptibilit...