This work investigated the effects of soft rot (Erwinia carotovora) on respiration rate of potatoes stored at three storage temperatures (5, 10, and 15 C) covering temperature ranges commonly encountered in storage. Five treatments were evaluated: healthy (H), healthy with holes (HW), inoculation with no incubation (I0), inoculation with 24 hr incubation (I1), and inoculated with 48 hr incubati...

Question Climate change has been shown to cause shifts in plant–soil feedbacks (PSFs) that may affect plant community dynamics, but the effect of prolonged drought is uncertain. We asked whether legacies PSFs due changes biotic interactions. Location Richmond, New South Wales, Australia. Methods collected soils from a five-year field-based rainfall manipulation experiment simulating ambient and...

in the present study, the effect of two species of amf, glomus mosseae and glomus intraradices, alone and in combination, was evaluated on the growth criteria, chlorophyll content, and root rot disease caused by fusarium solani f. sp. pisi, on chickpea (cicer arietinum l.) under greenhouse conditions. chickpea seeds were sown into pots containing 100 g of amf inoculum (more than 1,000 propagule...

to study the effects of biofertilizers on physiological and morphological characteristics, as well on essential oil content in dragonhead (dracocephalum moldavica), an experiment was conducted at tarbiat modares university in 2009. the studied factors were: vermicompost (0, 15, 30% v/pot), azotobacter (inoculated and non-inoculated), and phosphatic biofertilizer (inoculated and non-inoculated)....

Fresh produce remains the leading cause of foodborne illness outbreaks. Novel nonthermal technologies are needed to reduce risk pathogen contamination. The objective this study was develop a novel intervention technology exploiting integration high intensity short time (10 s) pulsed light (PL) and aerosolized formic acid (AFA) for inactivation Salmonella maintenance quality cherry tomato. Smoot...

Faced with the contrasting results of inoculation and co-inoculation in bean crop, an experiment was carried out pots, objective evaluating performance plant treatments inoculated or co-inoculated Rhizobium tropici Azospirillum brasilense, via seeds, without chemical treatment fungicide insecticide, combined 4 top-dressing nitrogen doses (0, 30, 60, 120 kg ha-1), a ‘Latossolo Vermelho-Amarelo d...

Stress due to waterlogging is considered an abiotic factor that negatively affects crop production, which, together with the excessive fertilization of crops, reduces cost-effectiveness and generates need create sustainable alternatives economically environmentally. The effect inoculation Azospirillum brasilense on physiology Raphanus sativus var. Crimson Giant subjected waterlogging, was evalu...

Exogenously applied glycinebetaine (GB) accumulates at high levels in maize (Zea mays L.). Under water deficit and high temperature conditions GB application produces yield benefits. These sub-optimum conditions often result in high levels of aflatoxin accumulation which reduces grain quality. A 3-year (2008, 2009 and 2010) field experiment was conducted to determine the effects of GB on ma...