Aphelenchoides besseyi is a seed-borne plant parasitic nematode and is widely distributed in most rice growing areas. Application of resistant cultivars requires the identification of resistance source, which can then be included in breeding programs to improve the local rice cultivars. Fourteen Iranian rice genotypes including improved and local varieties were evaluated for resistance to A. be...

in order to compare morphophysiological traits between new and old cultivars of barley (hordeum vulgare l.) a greenhouse experiment was conducted in greenhouse condition in faculty of agriculture, ferdowsi university of mashhad in spring and summer 2011.the type of experiment was a completely randomized design with eight treatments (nosrat , youssof , fagr30 , nick) and four old cultivars inclu...

BACKGROUND Drought is a common stress limiting crops growth and productivities worldwide. Water deficit may increase cellular membrane permeability, resulting in K outflow. Internal K starvation may disorder plant metabolism and limit plant growth. However, it is seldom reported about the effects of external K on drought tolerance of contrasting wheat cultivars. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS...

In the commercial production of roses, introducing a method to reduce the time of propagation with maximum success is crucial. This study was conducted to investigate the effect of different concentrations (0, 1500, 3000, 4500 mg/L) of Indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) on propagation of three cultivars of Rosa hybrid L. ('Dolce Vita', 'Samurai' and 'Utopia') by stenting (simultaneous cutting and graf...

Development of ozone (O3)-resistant cultivars is a potentially important approach for maintaining crop productivity under future climate scenarios inwhich tropospheric O3 pollution is projected to rise. A first step in the breeding of resistant cultivars for a crop such as soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) is identification of sources of O3 resistance genes. Thirty ancestral lines of soybean wer...

the water deficiency is one of the serious problems in the arid zones. in order to investigate the effect of cycocel on different growth aspects of two olive cultivars (mary and mission), a greenhouse experiment was conducted using three factors of: cycocel at three levels (0, 500 and 1000 mg l-1), irrigation of three levels (irrigated at 5, 10 and 15 days intervals) and tow olive cultivars (ma...

the present investigation was carried out to examine virulence diversity among the 291isolates (seven populations) of rhizoctonia solani ag-1 ia causing sheath blight of rice by sclerotia production and pathogencity studies on four rice cultivars representing different observed disease reactions, using detached leaf inoculation method in conjunction with mycelia growth measuring. based on patho...