Crop improvement powered through plant breeding is critical for sustainable production of horticultural crops that contribute to healthful diets and enhance quality of life for people around the world. Currently there are too few breeders to satisfy global demands and opportunities in the public and private sectors of developing and developed countries. In order to meet future needs, it is impo...

With the nursery and garden center industry expanding, it is important to keep the consumer returning year after year for the newest, most exciting and most unusual species. Perennial nursery crops are one sector of the nursery market that has grown rapidly due to the addition of new species. Though orchids are not new to the horticultural trade, these fascinating plants have long been in the d...

Drought stress is one of the main factors limiting horticultural crops, especially in environments such as Mediterranean basin, which often characterized by sub-optimal water availability [...]

Leaf senescence is a very important trait that limits yield and biomass accumulation of agronomic crops and reduces post-harvest performance and the nutritional value of horticultural crops. Significant advance in physiological and molecular understanding of leaf senescence has made it possible to devise ways of manipulating leaf senescence for agricultural improvement. There are three major st...

East Java also has a shallot production center, namely in the Probolinggo area. Generally, residents of area make living as farmers. The land cultivated agricultural is generally one's own. owned by farmers range 0.25 meters to above 1 hectare. used cultivate horticultural crops, especially shallots. This farmer chose cultivation crops because it high economic value and growing potential. Onion...

tomato is one of the most important crops with a yeild of 98. 8 million tons in more than 128,000 hectare of area under cultivation and 3.7 million tons production in iran. with regard to technological advancement ( improvement, development ) and increasing demand of tomato and their products in iran and all over the world, it is necessary to know about affecting factors on production, process ...

seed inoculation by means of mycorrhizal fungi can alleviate the side-effects of fungicides on production of crops and their yields. an experiment was conducted in 2009 at the research field of islamic azad university, faculty of agriculture, mahdasht, karaj. in order to investigate the influence of different kinds of fungicides on colonization of mycorrhizal species and on grain yield in soybe...

J. L. Smilanick, Horticultural Crops Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, 2021 South Peach Avenue, Fresno, CA 93727; I. F. Michael and M. F. Mansour, Advanced Packinghouse Systems, LLC, 1927 Cherry Avenue, Fresno, CA 93791; B. E. Mackey, Biometrics Unit, USDA-ARS, 800 Buchanan Street, Albany, CA 94710; D. A. Margosan, Horticultural Crops Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, 2021 South Peach Avenue, Fresno,...