Saline water irrigation has been considered a useful practice to overcome the freshwater shortage in arid and semi-arid regions. Assessing scheduling appropriate amount, salinity, timing is essential maintaining crop yield soil sustainability when using saline agriculture. A field experiment that included two levels (traditional deficit irrigation) three salinities (0, 5, 10 dS/m) was carried o...

Irregular fruit production across successive years is a major issue that limits the profitability of most temperate and tropical fruit crops. It is particularly affected by the reciprocal relationships between vegetative and reproductive growth. The concept of the costs of reproduction is defined in terms of losses in the potential future reproductive success caused by current investment in rep...

To determine the effects of drought stress, especially light on flower number in passion fruit, one-year-old fruit plants grown 7.5 L plastic pots were subjected to different soil water content treatments, namely wetness, drought, and heavy for two months. Average, maximum, minimum contents (v/v) 44, 47, 41% wetness treatment, 23, 40, 11% treatment 11, 33, 6% treatment. Flower decreased as stre...

Apolygus lucorum (Meyer-Dür) (Hemiptera: Miridae) is one of the most important herbivores in a broad range of cultivated plants, including cotton, cereals, vegetables, and fruit crops in China. In this manuscript, we report on a 6-year long study in which (adult) A. lucorum abundance was recorded on 174 plant species from 39 families from early July to mid-September. Through the study period pe...

safflower oil seed has high adaptability to different kinds of abiotic stresses such as drought and salinity. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of drought stress at different phenological stages on relative water content (rwc), leaf canopy temperature, seed yield and its components in spring types of safflower. the study was carried out in east azarbaijan research center for agr...