an isolate of fusarium moniliforme, a pathogen of winter wild oat (avena ludoviciana), was obtained from tehran province, iran, in 1994. a host range test performed on wheat, barley, maize, rye, millet, crested wheatgrass, faba bean, red bean, green bean, sunflower, soybean, oilseed rape, cotton, safflower, cucumber, water melon, berseem clover, and sainfoin, resulted in no symptom induction by...

BACKGROUND There is limited data regarding pollen food allergy syndrome (PFAS) in Turkey. OBJECTIVES To investigate the clinical characteristics and possible risk factors of PFAS in Turkey, and to evaluate if there was an association between skin test reactivity to pollens and presence of PFAS. METHODS A total of 254 consecutive adult patients with pollen sensitivity were prospectively recr...

Mid rift valley of east Shewa, Ethiopia is among the potential commercial irrigated intensive vegetable production areas [1] supplying a variety of vegetables to every corners of the country. Onion, tomato, maize, kale, hot pepper, watermelon, green bean and head cabbage are among the major vegetable crops widely produced for national and local markets. Okra, cucurbit and sweet melon are also c...

This research aims to develop an automatic tubing-grafting robotic system using soft rubber tubes as the grafting material that is suitable for the rootstock and scion of fruit-bearing vegetables having similar stem diameter, such as tomato, bitter melon, sweet pepper, etc. The experimental results indicated that the average grafting success rate is over 93.8% and the system has a working capab...

abstract this survey tries to use of competitive advantage analysis of agricultural productions with shift share method. to arrive this target used of official published statistics in ten years priod (1374-1384) were used. the results explained north khorasan has competitive advantage in onion, melon, tomato and grape production. also in this survey, appointment potentials of low plant surface ...

This study was performed to determine the effect of ultrasound treatment on seed germination, seedling emergence and mean germination times in seeds watermelon, melon, leek, pepper, carrot, tomato aubergine. Seeds treated with 40 kHz over 30 minutes (US), hydroprimed (HP) dry controls (C) were tested. US-treated had 85% percentages compared 82 78% for HP C seeds, respectively. Corresponding val...

The antagonism between NO3 and Cl uptake was demonstrated in avocado (Wiesman, 1995; Bar et al, 1997), barley (Smith, 1973; Glass and Siddiqi, 1985), broccoli (Liu and Shelp, 1996), citrus (Chapman and Liebig, 1940; Banuls et al , 1990, 1997; Bar et al , 1997; Cerezo et al , 1997), corn (Imas, 1991), kiwifruit (Smith et al , 1987), melon and lettuce (Feigin, 1985; Wei et al , 1989), groundnut (...

Considering Iran geographical location, water is the most limited factor in agriculture section. Therefore, it would be logical to consider water as one of the most significant criteria in selection of cultivation model. The purpose of this study is assigning cultivation pattern based on economic value of water in Gotvand Township in agronomic year 2008-2009. So it was necessary to computes the...