In vitro culture has the greatest commercial value in extremely quick creation of clonal plants compared to conventional techniques propagation. It also proven be tremendous practical utility as assistance development and maintenance disease-free planting material, germplasm conservation, supplements regular methods plant progress, such genetic engineering. The discovery implementation current ...

Although perennial fruit crops represent 1% of global agricultural land, they are of a great economic importance in world trade and in the economy of many regions. The perennial woody nature of fruit trees, their physiological stages of growth, the root distribution pattern, and the presence of herbaceous vegetation in alleys make orchard systems efficient in the use and recycling of nitrogen (...

Crop-raiding is a major source of conflict between people and wildlife globally, impacting local livelihoods and impeding conservation. Conflict mitigation strategies that target problematic wildlife behaviours such as crop-raiding are notoriously difficult to develop for large-bodied, cognitively complex species. Many crop-raiders are generalist feeders. In more ecologically specialised specie...

Species in the genus Gliocephalotrichum (= Leuconectria) (Hypocreales, Nectriaceae) are soilborne fungi, associated with post-harvest fruit spoilage of several important tropical fruit crops. Contemporary taxonomic studies of these fungi have relied on morphology and DNA sequence comparisons of the internal transcribed spacer region of the nuclear rDNA (ITS) and the β-tubulin gene regions. Empl...

Whilst most studies reviewing the reliance of global agriculture on insect pollination advocate increasing the 'supply' of pollinators (wild or managed) to improve crop yields, there has been little focus on altering a crop's 'demand' for pollinators.Parthenocarpy (fruit set in the absence of fertilization) is a trait which can increase fruit quantity and quality from pollinator-dependent crops...

Rapid increase of human population together with global climate variability resulted in increased demand of plant based food and energy sources (Varshney et al., 2011). Fruits and nuts have essential role to enhance quality of humankind life since a diet based on cereal grains, root and tuber crops, and legumes is generally lacked a wide range of products such as fiber, vitamin, provitamins or ...

Ioannis E. Tzanetakis and Anne B. Halgren, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis 97331; Karen E. Keller, Horticulture Crops Research Lab, USDA-ARS, Corvallis 97330; Stanley C. Hokanson, Department of Horticultural Science, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108; John L. Maas, USDAARS Fruit Lab, Beltsville 20705; Paul L. McCarthy and Robert R. Martin, Hort...