arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (amf) play an important role in promotion of plant growth as well as increasing plant tolerant to abiotic and biotic stresses. because of this, special attention was paid to amf in sustainable agriculture. biotic and abiotic factors can affect the development of the mycorrhizal relationship. to evaluate the effect of some bio-ecological parameters, on activity of am...

We evaluated the population dynamics of Colorado potato beetle in processing tomatoes and potatoes using immigration proÞles, density through time, rates of development and survivorship. We also evaluated the beetleÕs inßuence on yield of processing cultivars. Colorado potato beetle immigrated into both crops. The Þrst available crop had the earliest immigration event and higher immigrating adu...

Pretreatments of low-solids potato process effluent were tested for their potential to increase surfactin yield. Pretreatments included heat, removal of starch particulates, and acid hydrolysis. Elimination of contaminating vegetative cells was necessary for surfactin production. After autoclaving, 0.40 g/L of surfactin was produced from the effluent in 72 h, vs 0.24 g/L in the purified potato ...

The aim of this study was to examine factors affecting adoption of mini-tuber seed potato. Survey research design was used in this study. A sample of 100 potato growers who were informed about mini-tuber was selected and divided into adopter and non-adopter groups. Questionnaire was used as the instrument for data collection and was validated by a panel of experts. A pilot study was conducted f...

Field studies were conducted in 2007 and 2008 near Nyssa, OR, and Pasco and Paterson, WA to evaluate yellow nutsedge and broadleaf weed control and potato tolerance to imazosulfuron. No injury symptoms from imazosulfuron were evident on potato at Nyssa, whereas in Washington, imazosulfuron caused some chlorosis of potato foliage ranging from 6 to 15% and , 4% at 6 and 15 d after POST applicatio...

Crop growth and yield monitoring over agricultural fields is an essential procedure for food security and agricultural economic return prediction. The advances in remote sensing have enhanced the process of monitoring the development of agricultural crops and estimating their yields. Therefore, remote sensing and GIS techniques were employed, in this study, to predict potato tuber crop yield on...

to investigate the appropriate distribution of nitrogen fertilizer application and optimum amount of phosphorus fertilizer to achieve high quality and quantitative yield in edible and seed potato (solanum tuberosum l.) tubers, this experiment was conducted in research farm of the college of agriculture and natural resources, university of tehran in 2012. the experiment was performed a strip spl...