Nitric oxide (NO) plays a pivotal role in growth and disease resistance in plants. It also acts as a secondary messenger in signaling pathways for several plant hormones. Despite its clear role in regulating plant development, its role in fruit development is not known. In an earlier study, we described a short root (shr) mutant of tomato, whose phenotype results from hyperaccumulation of NO. T...

General phytochemical screening of the aqueous extract of fruits of Solanum xanthocarpum (Solanaceae) revealed the presence of steroids, terpenes, phenolic compounds, saponins, fatty acids, alkaloids. Fractionation of aqueous extract and activity guided isolation resulted in isolation of two white crystalline powder which were subjected to physical, chemical and spectral identification using IR...

The use of saline water is a challenge modern agriculture since the this type reduces crop quality and yield. From perspective, study aimed to analyze performance cherry tomato under different levels irrigation salinity partial root-zone irrigation. experiment was conducted in plant nursery at Engineering Agricultural Sciences Campus Federal University Alagoas, Rio Largo, Brazil. experimental d...

Wild berries of the genus Vaccinium have become increasingly popular in human health promotion due to their nutritional and medicinal properties. Some striking divergence of opinion about the content of triterpenoids in these plants still exists, meanwhile, this very large class of natural isoprenoids exhibits a wide range of biological activities and hence is of growing research interest. An i...

Abstract This study aimed to evaluate the effect of combination between irrigation, semiprotected cultivation, and artificial pollination on yield, number fruits, mass yellow passion fruit grown under organic production. The experimental design was in randomized blocks set up split plots (2x2x2) with eight treatments four replications. plot consisted irrigation or rainfed conditions, second fac...

Studies were conducted to assess the response of hot pepper cultivars for yield and quality in the local soil and climatic conditions of the US Virgin Islands. Seven cultivars namely `Ring of Fire’, `Compadre’, `Camino Real’, `Jalapeno M’, `Caribbean Red’, `Hungarian Yellow Hot Wax’, and `Aguila Real’ were tested in the field.Significant differences were observed in cultivars for marketable fru...

Prunus cerasus Linn. Rosaceae is a medicinal plant that has been widely used Ayurvedic and Unani system of medicine (USM). This plant especially the fruits are used in urinary system to cure number of diseases such as urinary tract infection, nephrolithiasis, cystolithiasis, and dysuria in the USM. Since this was an important medicinal plant since long, and therefore, scientists were also curio...

Bell pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) grown in Florida has traditionally been field-grown and harvested at a mature-green stage. However, the demand for highquality colored pepper has led producers to look at pepper grown under protected structures. Thirty-six colored pepper cultivars (red, orange, yellow, chocolate, and purple) from both Israeli and Dutch seed companies were compared during the Fal...

This study evaluated the effect of artificial pollination on pistachio trees in an orchard at a low ratio of male to female trees in Qazvin province, Iran, over the years 2012-2013. Experimental factors included three female cultivars (Akbari, Owhadi, Kalebozi) and three types of pollinizer (Control, GA, and GB) with three replications. In each female tree, two branches were selected in the nor...

To investigate the effects of organic fertilizers and irrigation frequencies on yield and quality of cherry tomato an experiment was conducted using six fertilizer doses including control (no fertilizer), NPK fertilizer (urea at 300 kg, TSP 200 kg and MoP 250 kg), cow-dung at 5 t ha-1, cow-dung at 10 t ha-1, poultry manure at 5 t ha-1 and poultry manure at 10 t ha-1 with two levels of irrigatio...