Growth of temperate lettuce (Lactuca sativa) plants aeroponically in tropical greenhouses under ambient root-zone temperatures (A-RZTs) exposes roots to temperatures of up to 40 degrees C during the middle of the day, and severely limits root and shoot growth. The role of ethylene in inhibiting growth was investigated with just-germinated (24-h-old) seedlings in vitro, and 10-d-old plants grown...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The objective of this study was to test whether the mean values of several root morphological variables were related to the ability to develop root-borne shoots and/or shoot-borne roots in a wide range of vascular plants. METHODS A comparative study was carried out on the 123 most common plant species from eroded lands in north-east Spain. After careful excavations in the ...

● Background and aims. The objective of this study was to test whether the mean values of several root morphological variables were related to the ability to develop root-borne shoots and/or shoot-borne roots in a wide range of vascular plants. ● Methods. A comparative study was carried out on the 123 most common plant species from eroded lands in NE Spain. After careful excavations in the fiel...

Extracellular ice nucleation usually occurs at mild subzero temperatures in most plants. For persistent supercooling of certain plant parts ice barriers are necessary to prevent the entry of ice from already frozen tissues. The reproductive shoot of Calluna vulgaris is able to supercool down to below -22°C throughout all developmental stages (shoot elongation, flowering, fruiting) despite an es...

ABSTRACT Vegetables intercropping of results in a better use natural resources, water, light, and nutrients, when properly managed. The objective this work was to evaluate the performance lettuce radish single crop systems under different irrigation water depths. experiment conducted protected environment at State University Maringá, Paraná, Brazil. A randomized block experimental design used 4...

in order to study impacts of organic manure levels and inoculation with mycorrhiza fungi on growth, quantitative and qualitative yield of hyssop (hyssopus officinalis l.), a field experiment was conducted as factorial based on a randomized complete block design with three replications at the agricultural research station, ferdowsi university of mashhad, during two growing seasons of 2009-2010 a...

Background: The projection of prana to soil, seeds and seedlings enhance plant growth is referred as Pranic Agriculture (PA). Methods: A field study was carried out the influence PA on Banana var. (Musa sps. Nanjangud rasabale) for a duration one year. suckers agricultural land were divided into two groups namely pranic control in half acre. treated with group, while non-pranic group. Growth pa...

Water scarcity and the increasing severity of water deficit stress are major challenges to sustaining irrigated rice (Oryza sativa) production. Despite the technologies developed to reduce the water requirement, rice growth is seriously constrained under water deficit stress compared with other dryland cereals such as wheat (Triticum aestivum). We exposed rice cultivars with contrasting respons...