the effect of electromagnetic field was examined on zinnia (zinnia elegans) seeds to enhance seed germination and early growth. the seeds were exposed to four magnetic strengths of 15, 100, 400 and 800 mt in four durations of 30, 60, 120 and 240 min. the experiments were carried out in two forms of laboratory germination and soil emergence. results showed that magnetic field application enhance...

Castor is one of neglected African oil crops with little research attention in Nigeria. In the present research, eighty-six castor genotypes were evaluated at three locations in Niger State, Nigeria. The aim was to estimate the extent of genetic variability and also to examine the associations among the seed yield and its components. The treatments were laid out in an Alpha Lattice Design with ...

in order to estimate heritability and gene action for grain yield and its related traits in lentil, six basic generations were evaluated in a randomized complete block design with three replications in a field experiment. besides seed yield per plant, plant height, pod length, and 100-seed weight, the number of pods per plant, primary branches, clusters per plant, nodes per main stem, secondary...

in order to evaluation of squash (cucurbita pepo) seed yield per fruit and its relations with other characteristics of fruit include: length, diameter, length: diameter ratio (fruit shape), flesh thickness, thousand seed weight and fruit weight, an experiment was conducted using 24 accessions of squash as a randomized complete-block design with three replications. morphological traits were eval...

introduction during the last decades interest in organic production of seed specially for medicinal plants take into consideration because of higher quality of organic products (hermes, 2010). seed germination is one of the principal stages in the plant life cycle and seeds with higher quality and vigour resulted in more pronounced seedlings growth and development. therefore, investigation of a...

We provide new constructions of several fundamental pseudorandom objects. Loosely speaking, these constructions obtain exponential improvements in efficiency compared to previous constructions with comparable randomness complexity. Our measure of efficiency is the number of word operations, as captured by the well-established unitcost word RAM model. Our main results are the following: 1. A fam...

in order to investigate the water deficit impact on physical characteristics of seed in four sunflower hybrids (azargol, allstar, hysun 33 and hysun25), under three irrigation regimes (irrigation after 50, 100 and 150 mm cumulative evaporation from class a evaporation pan, respectively) and experiment was conducted. sampling was done at the end of growing period (season) when the moisture conte...

We construct non-malleable extractors with seed length d = O(log n+log(1/ε)) for n-bit sources with min-entropy k = Ω(d), where ε is the error guarantee. In particular, the seed length is logarithmic in n for ε > 2−(logn) 1/3 . This improves upon existing constructions that either require super-logarithmic seed length even for constant error guarantee, or otherwise only support min-entropy n/po...