There is little information about the effects of ethephon ripening hormone on the yield of sweet sorghum in Thailand. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the impact of ethephon hormone applied at different growth stages of three cultivars of sweet sorghum on its growth and yield. The experiment was conducted from December 2016 to May 2017 at a research plot of the Faculty of Agricultural Te...

Selective amplification of microsatellite polymorphic loci (SAMPL) markers was used to analyze the genetic relationships between 22 elite cultivars of sweet potato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.] used in polycross breeding in Taiwan. These elite cultivars included varieties introduced from China and Japan and landraces from Taiwan as well as cultivars derived either from hybrid or polycross breedin...

The breakdown of self-incompatibility, which could result from the accumulation of non-functional S-haplotypes or competitive interaction between two different functional S-haplotypes, has been studied extensively at the molecular level in tetraploid Rosaceae species. In this study, two tetraploid Chinese cherry (Prunus pseudocerasus) cultivars and one diploid sweet cherry (Prunus avium) cultiv...

to determine the specificity and host range of wilsonomyces carpophilus isolates, some stone fruit seedlings (prunus armeniaca, prunus dulcis, prunus reuteri, p. vulgaris, p. domestica, p. persica, p. avium and p. cerasus), pome fruits (malus communis, pyrus communis, crataegus azarollus and crataegus monogyna) as well as ornamental plants (rosa persica, rosa sp. and r. damascena) were selected...

The objective of the paper was to illustrate using and usefulness of a joint AMMI and cluster analyses to assess the grain yield adaptive response of Polish and foreign 31 winter wheat cultivars in a range of 20 environments (locations) and across 3 years (2005-2007) under integrated crop management, using data obtained in the post-registration variety testing trials (called PDO trials), to ide...

The first commercially successful F1 hybrid sweet corn, Golden Cross Bantam, was released by Smith in the early 1930s (17). Today, over 600 sweet corn hybrids are available commercially in the United States and thousands of new hybrids are developed and evaluated each year. These hybrids display a wide range of phenotypic reactions to prevalent diseases (9), indicating a considerable amount of ...

Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L.) is the seventh most important food crop due to its distinct advantages, such as adaptability to different environmental conditions and high nutritional value. Assessing the genetic diversity of this important crop is necessary due to the constant increase of demand for food and the need for conservation of agricultural and genetic resources. In Puerto Rico (PR)...