Invasive alien species can have serious adverse impacts on both the environment and the economy. Being able to predict the impacts of an alien species could assist in preventing or reducing these impacts. This study aimed to establish whether there are any life history traits consistently correlated with the impacts of alien birds across two continents, Europe and Australia, as a first step tow...

Two trials were conducted under Mediterranean conditions to monitor several physiological indicators before harvest (leaf chlorophyll concentration, quantum yield of photosystem II electron transport, stem water potential, and stomatal conductance) some agronomic performance parameters at (vigor, fruit growth, size, weight, yield), ‘Vairo’ almond ‘Big Top’ nectarine cultivars grafted onto eight...

The fast and efficient recovery could be an important trait defining the efficacy of plant drought adaptation. In this work, we aimed to develop a set simple appropriate physiological proxies that used as reliable indicators predict responses validate role specific traits such root length, stomata density, residual transpiration, in tolerance barley. Eighty barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) genotypes...

A plant’s response to osmotic stress is a complex phenomenon that causes many abnormal symptoms due limitations in growth and development or even the loss of yield. The current research aimed analyze agronomical, physiological, biochemical mechanisms accompanying acquisition salt resistance Vigna radiata L. variety ‘Ramzan’ using seed osmo- thermopriming presence PEG-4000 4 °C under induced sal...

to evaluate of rice genotypes in various modified systems, an experiment was carried out as split plot in randomized complete blocks design with four replications at neka region, mazandaran province, iran in 2011-2012. cropping systems were chosen as main plots including conventional, improved and system of rice intensification (sri) and genotypes as sub plots including: sang tarom, hashemi tar...

this experiment contained four vetch lines (vicia panonica ) that conducted in two locations (faruj and bojnourd) in 2005-2006 in rcbd design with four replications under dryland conditions. analysis of variance indicated that there were significant differences among lines in different locations about all traits, except 100-seed weight. the interaction of genotype×location was significant on al...

BACKGROUND Cocos nucifera (coconut), a member of the Arecaceae family, is an economically important woody palm grown in tropical regions. Despite its agronomic importance, previous germplasm assessment studies have relied solely on morphological and agronomical traits. Molecular biology techniques have been scarcely used in assessment of genetic resources and for improvement of important agrono...

An experiment to study the feasibility of intercropping the short duration agronomical crops in periwinkle was conducted at Nagarjun Medicinal Plants Garden, P.K.V. Akola during 1988 - 89, 89 - 90 and 90 - 91. The highest monetary return of Rs. 15,604/ per hectare was obtained from an intercropping system of periwinkle and groundnut is row proportion of 2:1.

Environmental factors contribute to over 70% of crop yield losses worldwide. Of these drought and salinity are the most significant causes of crop yield reduction. Rice is an important staple crop that feeds more than half of the world's population. However among the agronomically important cereals rice is the most sensitive to salinity. In the present study we show that exogenous expression of...