strawberry is a valuable, nutritious, and economically important fruit all over the world including bangladesh. therefore, there is a demand to develop a suitable variety of strawberry. for this purpose, leaf explants from in vitro grown strawberry plantlets were cultured onto ms medium supplemented with different concentrations and combinations of 2,4-d, naa and ba for callus induction. the mo...

In this study, the effects on quality characteristics such as mass, length, width and color (L*, a* b*) in blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum L. cv. 'Bluecrop') fruit of biofilm (ParkaTM) sprayed pre-harvest different regimes were investigated. The highest mass was measured T1, T3, T4 T8 treatments at harvest, whereas all harvest +7 similar. At +7, length obtained T1 treatments, respectively. Frui...

a set of 29 persimmon genotypes were characterized using morphological characters and rapd markers. some fruit traits of: fresh weight, fruit length and diameter, firmness, fruit juice ph, ta, tss, flavor index, fruit skin and flesh color, seededness, leaf length and width were evaluated. analysis of variance for the investigated characters showed that genotypes were significantly different. re...

deficit irrigation is an essential optimization method for water consumption in irrigated lands. in order to investigate the effects of deficit irrigation on growth, yield and quality traits of two tomato (lycopersicon esculentum mill.) cultivars a factorial layout based on randomized complete block design with three replications was conducted in agricultural research station of miandoab during...

cross pollination in some of apples cultivar exists; also iran is near the origin of apple trees so, large genetic diversity can be seen between iranian cultivar. also very famous apple cultivar is known in iran for special flavor and taste. the name of this cultivar is golab. this research was studied in the years 2010 and 2011 in khorasan razavi province on golab apple ecotypes to evaluate ch...

grape vine is one of the important horticultural crops with unique standing as regards use and consumption. the fruit is utilized from immature to ripened state and as raisins. its leaves can be used when they are soft and fresh. therefore it is necessary to improve iranian grapevine quality as well as quantity. the main purpose of this study was the use of phenyl phetalamic acid (ppa) to incre...

In Ayurveda, the ripe fruit of Averrhoa carambola L. (commonly known as “Kamarakh”) is considered as digestible, tonic strengthening, for bleeding piles and causing biliousness. The dried fruit is also used in fever; it is cooling and possesses antiscorbutic properties. It is considered as one of the best Indian cooling medicines. An attempt has been made to highlight this medicinal fruit throu...

growth traits, yield and fruit quality in ‘synda’ tomato were compared with those in tomatoes grafted onto either ‘king kong’ rootstock or onto their own rootstocks, (trained as single or double stem), and at two fruit thinning levels, of: no thinning or thinned to five fruits per truss. the data related to crop growth rate (cgr), relative growth rate (rgr), net assimilation rate (nar), leaf ar...