it is well known that sugar beet is sensitive to salinity stress at the germination stage. three separate experiments were conducted to study the effects of salinity on seed germination, plant establishment, and yield of sugar beet genotypes for screening purposes. these included: (a) a laboratory study using four water salinity levels (with ec values < 0.1 as the control, 16, 20, and 24 ds m-1...

Development of dark-grown "Clark" soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merr.) seedlings is abnormal at 25 C but normal at 20 and 30 C. At 25 C, hypocotyls swell and fail to elongate normally; lateral root formation and seedling ethylene evolution are enhanced.Co(2+) promoted hypocotyl elongation of etiolated "Clark" soybean seedlings by 28% when grown at 25 C. The same growth-promoting concentration reduc...

Extensins are cell wall basic glycoproteins with a polypeptide backbone that is extremely rich in hydroxyproline. In this paper, the function of extensins in embryo development was studied in Nicotiana tabacum. By using Western blot and immunohistochemistry, the extensin JIM20 epitopes were found to express in different developmental stages of embryos, and specifically in the top of the embryo ...

In Clark and Shelby soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merr.) seedlings, hypocotyl elongation was inhibited and hypocotyl swelling and root dry weight were increased by a temperature of 25 C. At 20 and 30 C, development was normal, as was development of Hawkeye and Mandarin soybean seedlings at all three temperatures. Dry matter distribution at 9 days indicates that inhibition of hypocotyl elongation is...

Grafting is one of the main techniques used in intensive tomato cultivation to address abnormal weather, diseases, insect pests, and continuous cropping problems. In recent years, due agricultural labor constraints, industry has needed make use more machinery. this study, a clamping cutting arrangement device for Solanaceae scion stock seedlings was developed; it included UR5 robotic arm realiz...

to study the effects of sowing dates on seed germination and on seed vigor of 12 spring rapeseed cultivars, an experiment was performed in years 2005-2006. during the first year, 12 cultivars of spring rapeseed were planted in the research field of seed and plant improvement institute, karaj, iran. during the second year, standard germination test was conducted to study the performance of the s...

Background Eucalyptus genetic improvement is time-consuming mainly because its long time to reach reproductive maturity along with its mixed mating system [6]. As a result, the production of pure lines as in maize is impracticable. The heterozygous status hides deleterious recessive genes that, when in homozygosity can reduce seedling survival due to physiological changes, resulting in consider...

The regulation of Rho of plants (ROP) in morphogenesis of leaf epidermal cells has been well studied, but the roles concerning regulators of ROPs such as RhoGDIs are poorly understood. This study reports that AtRhoGDI1 (GDI1) acts as a versatile regulator to modulate development of seedlings and leaf pavement cells. In mutant gdi1, leaf pavement cells showed shorter lobes in comparison with tho...