A greenhouse experiment was conducted at Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources for 10 weeks (19 March – 28 May 2019) under irrigated conditions. The objective the to evaluate effect vermicompost on growth yield beetroot (Beta vulgaris) (i) four doses vermicompost, (ii) three mineral fertilizer, (iii) ordinary soil (as control). randomized complete design had polyethylene pots...

The effect of chilling on translocation in higher plants was reviewed by separate consideration of path, sink, and source-cooling effects. The response of the sink to chilling indicates that the effect is mainly due to the inhibition of a metabolic process, while the response of the path to chilling suggests that the effect is mainly due to physical damage such as alteration of membranes. Sugar...

The reducing sugar content of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) roots increased during 30 days of storage at 21 C and 160 days at 5 C as a result of an increase in acid invertase activity. Sucrose synthetase and neutral invertase activities were high at harvest but declined during storage, thus showing no relationship with postharvest reducing sugar accumulation in sugar beet roots. Acid alpha-gluc...

Similar host ranges were found for Heterodera schachtii and a race of H. trifolii parasitic on sugarbeet in The Netherlands. Twenty-nine of 41 plant accessions evaluated were susceptible to H. trifolii. Five breeding lines of the interspecific hybrid Beta vulgaris-B. procumbens which are resistant to H. schachtii were highly susceptible to H. trifolii. An accession of B. maritima with partial r...

INTRODUCTION Present and future world shortages and increasing petroleum costs have stimulated the search for alternate renewable and nonrenewable energy sources. Sugarbeets (Beta vulgaris L.) and sugarcane (Saccharum app.) have high potential as a feedstock for conversion to alcohol as a practical renewable energy source. Sugarbeets have many desirable characteristics such as: storage of 40 to...