CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 81, NO. 3, 10 AUGUST 2001 248 by repeating the experiment at least once. A total of 34 decamer primers (series OPA, OPB etc.) from Operon Tech, CA, USA were screened using three representative genomic DNA samples of black pepper. Of these, 24 primers that yielded consistent and clear band patterns were selected for the final analysis of the 22 accessions used in the presen...

Combining photovoltaic panels (PVPs) and crops on the same land unit were recently proposed as an alternative to the conversion of cropland into photovoltaic plants. This could alleviate the increasing competition for land between food and energy production. In such agrivoltaic systems, an upper layer of PVPs partially shades crops at ground level. The aim of this work was to (i) assess the eff...

The North Carolina wine industry is growing at a fast pace. Many new vineyards are being planted with European varieties. Vitis vinifera varieties in general are the most challenging species of grape grown, requiring considerable effort to consistently produce yields of appropriate volume and good quality. The model produced in this research was designed to help guide site selection for V. vini...

As the world population increases and arable land decreases, it becomes vital to improve the productivity of the agricultural land available. Given the weather and soil properties, farmers need to take critical decisions such as which seed variety to plant and in what proportion, in order to maximize productivity. These decisions are irreversible and any unusual behavior of external factors, su...

Many studies have shown that local landraces are found to be better adapted to changing climatic conditions. The screening of local land races is one of important processes to detect drought tolerant behavior of crop species to further verify in similar field situation and genomic/molecular level studies. In 2009 for main season rice, a study was done to identify different land races of rice in...

Sunflower is one of the oil-producing plants that potentially can be developed as a food raw material, industrial, medicine, and cosmetics. cultivation needs to conducted in various lands Indonesia; them coastal regions. However, on side, these were included marginal land because high level salinity constrains it. This research aims determine sunflower growth thrive stress land. applies random ...

To minimize the gap between the demand and supply of cereals, oilseeds and pulses, intensive efforts are being made to increase their production. As ever-increasing population and urbanization cannot allow increase in the land area under the cultivation of cereals, oilseeds and pulses anymore due to the pressure on land, hence, yield per unit area needs to be improved further. To achieve this o...

Traditionally, potential evaluation methods for farmland consolidation have depended mainly on the experts’ experiences, statistical computations or subjective adjustments. Some biases usually exist in the results. Thus, computer-aided technology has become essential. In this study, an intelligent evaluation system based on a fuzzy decision tree was established, and this system can deal with nu...