Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) an important sugar crop, shows high sensitivity to salinity at various growth stages. This study was conducted to determine the comparative response of a salt-tolerant (CP-4333) and a salt-sensitive (CP-71-3002) sugarcane clone to the toxic or osmotic effects of sodium chloride at two growth stages. Clones indicated significant differences in terms of reduct...

Senescence is the last stage of development of a leaf, and is critical for plants’ evolutionary fitness as nutrient remobilization to other organs of a plant is achieved through this process. The leaf senescence process is believed to be under the control of a highly regulated genetic program which is associated with drastic changes of gene expression. Major breakthroughs in the molecular under...

Senescence-associated genes (SAGs) are up-regulated during plant senescence and may have been implicated in encoding enzymes involved in metabolism of senescence tissues. The gene Osl2 (GABA:pyruvate-transaminase) which is upregulated during leaf senescence in rice (Oryza sativa) was functionally characterized. The recombinant Osl2 fusion protein over-expressed in Escherichia coli displays pyru...

Herbicides may damage soybean in conventional production systems. Chlorophyll fluorescence imaging technology has been applied to identify herbicide stress in weed species a few days after application. In this study, greenhouse experiments followed by field experiments at five sites were conducted to investigate if the chlorophyll fluorescence imaging is capable of identifying herbicide stress ...

The relationship between the transition to budding and flowering in Artemisia annua and the production of the antimalarial sesquiterpene, artemisinin (AN), the dynamics of artemisinic metabolite changes, AN-related transcriptional changes, and plant and trichome developmental changes were measured. Maximum production of AN occurs during full flower stage within floral tissues, but that changes ...

Leaf spots can be indicative of crop diseases, where leaf batches (spots) are usually examined and subjected to expert opinion. In our proposed system, we are going to develop an integrated image processing system to help automated inspection of these leaf batches and helps identify the disease type. Conventional Expert systems mainly those which used to diagnose the disease in agriculture doma...

Disease severity was recorded 2 weeks after planting when seedlings were still at the primary leaf stage. In all of the rows planted with inoculated seeds, some of the plants were symptomless and others had leaf spots and puckering symptoms characteristic of bacterial brown spot. No difference in type or severity of symptoms was noted in any of the treatments. None of the treatments resulted in...

Adventitious root formation in plant cuttings is influenced by many endogenous and environmental factors. Leaf photosynthesis during rooting of leafy cuttings in hard to root species can contribute to supply carbohydrates to the intensive metabolic processes related to adventious root formation. Light intensity during rooting is artificially kept low to decrease potential cutting desiccation, b...

Previous work (1) has shown that about 50 per cent of the total protein nitrogen contained in a tobacco leaf which had recently completed growth by expansion is associated with particulate structures of leaf protoplasm such as nuclei, chloroplasts, etc. The other 50 per cent of the protein nitrogen remains soluble in the presence of neutral buffers. In the analytical ultracentrifuge, the solubl...

Environmental and leaf trait effects on herbivory are supposed to vary among different feeding guilds. Herbivores also show variability in their preferences for plant ontogenetic stages. Along the vertical forest gradient, environmental conditions change, and trees represent juvenile and adult individuals in the understorey and canopy, respectively. This study was conducted in ten forests sites...