State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Horticultural College, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China (D.X., X.H.); Wageningen UR Plant Breeding (D.X., R.K.B., K.L., G.B.) and Biometris (H.W.), Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen 6700AJ, The Netherlands; Horticultural College, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding 071001, Chin...

John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom (E.B., L.H., C.M.); Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias, 46113 Moncada, Valencia, Spain (A.G.-L., L.N.); Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l’Analisi dell’Economia Agraria, Centro di Ricerca per l’Agrumicoltura e le Colture Mediterranee, 95024 Acireale, Italy (C.L., G.R.-R.); Dipartimento di Agricoltura, Alimentazione e Ambi...

Descriptions of nutritional deficiencies in literature are mostly based on agricultural crops. As every plant variety reacts very individually on deficiency or excess of nutrients, there is still a large lack of information on horticultural products. For this reason many vegetable and pot plant varieties have been tested on symptoms of nutritional deficiencies by selective fertilisation at the ...

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...

summarythe explanation of the elastic, or velocity structure of the earth has long been a goal of the world’s seismologists. for the first few decades of seismological research, the investigation on velocity structure was restricted to the determination of one-dimensional models of the solid earth and of various regions within it. seismologists are currently obtaining three dimensional velocity...

a study was conducted at the research station of department of horticultural science (tehran university, karaj) to evaluate the effects of water stress on yield, growth and some physiological parameters in iranian melon. the experiment was set out in a split plot design with three replicates. treatments consisted of factorial arrangement of three irrigation levels (starting irrigation at -50, -...