In vitro shoot tips of Sequoia sempervirens (D. Don.) Endl.—including a juvenile, two adult, and two rejuvenated adult clones—were examined for differences in basic physiological characteristics. Moisture contents were the same, around 85%, for all tissues regardless of origin. Growth rates, determined by fresh weight increase and shoot elongation, were higher for the juvenile and rejuvenated s...

The influence of exogenous application of glycine betaine (GlyBet) was examined on photosynthetic pigments and ions concentration of safflower under salinity stress conditions. The experiment was performed in a randomized complete block design arranged as a factorial with three replications. Salinity treatments (0, 50, 100, and 150 mM) were applied using sodium chloride (NaCl). GlyBet (0, 10, 3...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the antioxidant and antimicrobial properties of extracts of different fractions of two tomato plant cultivars. The stems, roots, leaves, and whole-plant fractions were evaluated. Tomatine and tomatidine were identified by HPLC-DAD. The leaf extracts from the two varieties showed the highest flavonoids, chlorophyll, carotenoids, and total phenolics conte...

The present study was conducted to assess the physiological and biochemical responses of winter vegetable radish (Raphanus sativus L.) to salinity stress. Salt stress markedly reduced biomass production of both radish varieties. Shoot fresh and dry weights were significantly reduced under salt stress, higher reduction was found at 120 mM NaCl as compared. Salt stress significantly reduced chlor...

Leaves of rye seedlings (Secale cereale L.) grown in the presence of four chlorosis-inducing herbicides under a low light intensity of 10 lux formed chlorophyll. When segments of such dim-light-grown leaves were exposed to 30,000 lux at either 0 degrees C or 30 degrees C, treatments with aminotriazole or haloxidine (group 1) showed no or only minor changes of their chlorophyll contents. In trea...

The usefulness of nondestructive methods for measuring chlorophyll content in skin of ‘Golden Delicious’ apples and for evaluating quality parameters and fruit maturity using optical reflectance spectrometry was studied. The fruit weight, firmness, total soluble solids content and titratable acidity during vegetation period and short-term storage at 10°C of ‘Golden Delicious’ apples were measur...

-In this study, impacts of vector quantization compression on prediction of leaf chlorophyll content of crops for the application to precision agriculture were evaluated. The compression algorithm tested in this paper is called successive approximation multi-stage vector quantization (SAMVQ). The hyperspectral data used were acquired by CASI over corn fields at L’ Acadie experimental farm (Agri...