Upland rice plays a major role in the sustainable food security of the country. Early vigour trait is important in the drill-sown rice for weed suppression as well as initial establishment. The IR64/Azucena was used as a reference population to identify Quantitative Trait Loci (QTLs) for early vigour related traits. The Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) markers flanking QTLs in IR64/Azucena and othe...

Background and Aims The use of rootstocks to enhance the performance low-yielding wine cultivars grown under hot irrigated conditions was studied. Methods Results Field grape composition low-vigour (Chasselas, Egiodola, Ehrenfelser, Gamay, Perdea, Reichensteiner Roussanne) as own roots or grafted on (1103 Paulsen, Dog Ridge, Ramsey, Schwarzmann SO4) were assessed over three seasons. Across all ...

Abstract Seed vigour is an important aspect of seed quality. It a quantitative trait which responsible for overall performance in terms rate and uniformity germination, seedling growth, emergence ability under unfavourable environments post storage performance. controlled by genetic factors, initial quality, production environments, harvesting conditions. tests provide more sensitive index per ...

Early vigour of rice, defined as seedling capacity to accumulate shoot dry weight (SDW) rapidly, is a complex trait. It depends on a genotype propensity to assimilate, store, and/or use non-structural carbohydrates (NSC) for producing large and/or numerous leaves, involving physiological trade-offs in the expression of component traits and, possibly, physiological and genetic linkages. This stu...

Seed imbibition under cold temperature is dangerous when dry seeds have relatively low water content. The aim of this study was to investigate germination of 20 lines/cultivars of narrow-leaf lupine at 7 °C (cold) and 13 °C (control) under the influence of smoke water and following seed hydropriming for 3 h at 20 °C. The efficacy of individual treatments was examined with regard to seed protect...

Pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Mills.) is one of the major grain legume crops grown in the tropics and sub-tropics and accounts for about 5% of world legume production. It is the fifth prominent pulse crop in the world and second most important pulse crop after chickpea in India. India is ranking first having about 90% of the world area and 85% of production. Organic farming in recent years gai...