The effect of water deficit on stem reserve mobilization and sink activity in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivars, viz., C306 (drought tolerant) and PBW343 (drought sensitive) was studied. Drought was maintained in pot raised plants by withholding irrigation at 95 days after sowing (DAS), i.e. just five days before the initiation of anthesis. Drought induced a significant reduction in mean b...

Cultivating new alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) varieties with high yield and quality is of great significance for improving promoting the development grass livestock industry. Plant height an important indicator closely related to photosynthetic capacity, harvest index yield. However, underlying cause variation in among plants not clear. In this paper, we measured phenotypic traits, physiology en...

Morphology, habitat, shoot density and standing crop (above below ground biomass) of salt marsh Porteresia coarctata at Bakkhali estuary, Cox’s Bazar were investigated from January 2006 to June 2006. Permanent plots 50 m x exposed (station I) protected II) areas selected. P. was found growing as monospecific stand four-species association with seagrass Halophila beccarii, patches mangroves (Avi...

The sugarcane borer, Diatraea saccharalis (F.) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), is the key insect pest of sugarcane, Saccharum spp., grown in Louisiana. For more than 40 years, Louisiana sugarcane farmers have used a value of 10% internodes bored at harvest as the economic injury level (EIL). Three plant-cane studies were conducted to re-evaluate the long-standing sugarcane borer EIL level using the m...

background: asthma is a common condition in general medical practice, and it accounts for about 1% of all ambulatory hospital visits. nowadays, hospitalization rates for asthma have actually been increased in some demographic subgroups despite recent advances in treatment. understanding the underlying factors that contribute to hospitalization and especially duration of the hospitalization of a...

fennel (foeniculum vulgare mill.) benefits from a lot of useful medicinal properties. iran is known as one of the main producers of fennel. in spite of high medicinal values, fennel’s cultivation is not economically feasible, mainly due to its low yield. it grows wild in different areas in iran from where diverse ecotypes have evolved. genetic variance and heritability estimates of traits in a ...

Gibberellic acid (GA3) is the most widely used plant growth regulator to thin out bunches and increase berry size in seedless table grapes, but there evidence of its negative effects, including loss fertility malformations rachis. This study analyses effects applying auxin indole-3-butyric (IBA), as a novel alternative, on fruit yield, bunch structure, anatomy postharvest quality cv. Superior S...

Transgenic technology is an excellent alternative for improvement of crop production and disease free crops such as potato, which is one of the most important crops worldwide. One of the first steps to apply the transgenic technique is the establishment of an efficient plant regeneration protocol. This is a limiting step in this kind of study, since most protocols are species-specific and some ...

Disturbance can fragment plant clones into different sizes and unstabilize soils to different degrees, so that clonal fragments of different sizes can be buried in soils at different depths. As a short-term storage organ, solon internode may help fragmented clones of stoloniferous plants to withstand deeper burial in soils. We address (1) whether burial in soils decreases survival and growth of...