The process of selecting certain desirable traits for plant breeding may compromise other potentially important traits, such as defences against pests; however, specific phenotypic changes occurring over the course of domestication are unknown for most domesticated plants. Cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon) offers a unique opportunity to study such changes: its domestication occurred recently, a...

the effect of drought on the seed yield and some associated characteristics of common been under normal and drought stress conditions and determination of durable genotypes to drought were studied by planting 32 genotypes in two separate augmented designs in normal and stress conditions. these genotypes were evaluated in randomized complete block design with 3 replications in the field of facul...

MANY ENDEMIC DISEASES are controlled through the cropping of resistant sugarcane varieties. Routine resistance screening trials for a range of diseases are a core activity of BSES. Central to this is the appropriate statistical analysis of data from these trials. This is important since potentially high-yielding varieties could be discarded from the breeding program if they are incorrectly rate...

This study investigates nasal murmur in preconsonantal environments across Portuguese varieties from Africa, Asia, Europe and South America. We analyzed cross-syllable tokens of the type nasal vowel (Vn) + stop (Cs) or fricative (Cf) to: compare the presence or absence of nasal murmur (N) across pan Lusophone varieties, and examine the acoustic length of N, alone and as a proportion of the tota...

The importance of growing sugarcane varieties that minimise losses from nematodes is linked to the effect that the nematodes have on the cane. Revised estimates of crop loss from nematodes in South Africa indicate a reduction in yield equivalent to more than 1.6 million tons cane per annum. The most pathogenic species on sugarcane, Meloidogyne javanica, is restricted to very sandy soils. The ot...

in mulberry (morus sp.), grown for its foliage, which is the sole food for the silkworm (bombyx mori l.), evolving high yielding varieties is a long drawn and laborious process. one of the important selection parameter that has significant positive correlation with leaf yield is total shoot length [tsl] of the mulberry plant. measuring the length of all the shoots of the test genotypes to get t...

selecting and introducing of cold tolerant chickpea varieties with high yielding potential as well as suitable to autumn sowing has highly importance. sel93th24460 is hybrid of a cross, ilc 3470 × ilc 8617 which has done at international center for agricultural research in the dry areas (icarda). this genotype has been sent to iran in an international cold tolerance nursery in 1999 and evaluate...