Northeast India is rich in genetic diversity of horticultural crops and colocasia one the important crops. This region for both cultivated wild species particularly jhum fields, homestead gardens, near water bodies, river banks, forests road sides. Wide range variability observed vegetative characters, corm cormel yield quality characters.  It field as a mixed crop along with paddy other l...

to improve commercial grapevine cultivars, it is necessary to apply such methods that by cultivation of a certain number of vines in a certain area, higher yield could be harvested. to achieve such a goal, healthy stocks with resistant to pests and diseases, high fructification and high quality of vines are needed. all these properties can be obtained successfully through clonal selection. viti...

Avian influenza is one of the most important diseases in avian industry, which also threats human population. Thus, vaccination is necessary for controlling this viral disease. In this study, killed vaccine of avian influenza subtype H9N2 and formalin solution (for virus inactivation) were used. It is necessary to study the effect of different factors such as formalin concentration, as well as ...

Background & Aim: Saffron (Crocus sativus L.) formerly was important in Turkey. Saffron cultivation has been decreased and it is now only cultivated in three villages in this country. It is triploid and exclusively propagated in a vegetative way by corms. In Turkey, saffron is traditionally planted by placing corms in rows randomly without grading or sorting; which results in placement...

introduction saffron as a food, spicy and medicinal plant has more than 62000 ha under cultivation with about 250 tons annual dry stigma production in iran, which includes about 90% of its world production. therefore, this plant has a specific value in agricultural export products of iran (fallahi et al., 2014). due to the important role of saffron in iran’s agroecosystems, the improvement of i...

abstract colchicum kotschyi boiss (colchicaceae) is one of the sixteen iranian native colchicum species, containing considerable amount of colchicine. to study the effect of different nutrient levels on corm yield and colchicine content of colchicum kotschyi boiss under open field soilless culture, an experiment was performed in a randomized complete design at the horticultural research station...