to improve commercial grapevine cultivars, it is necessary to apply such methods that by cultivation of a certain number of vines in a certain area, higher yield could be harvested. to achieve such a goal, healthy stocks with resistant to pests and diseases, high fructification and high quality of vines are needed. all these properties can be obtained successfully through clonal selection. viti...

Cultivation of Ganoderma lucidum (Curtis) P. Karst, a medicinal mushroom known for antioxidant, antitumor, anti-inflammatory, and immunomodulatory activities is not practiced in Nigeria. Tree species used cultivation Asia, America Europe are available The present study investigated indigenous hardwoods their supplementation with rice wheat bran as substrates its cultivation. Six (Mansonia altis...

The “poplar” mushroom C. aegerita has fruiting bodies that are attractive for their appearance and tasty properties. It is also known mushrooms contain unique substances, especially proteins, polysaccharides, aromatic terpenes with enhanced nutritional medicinal value. However, the lack of a well-founded technology cultivation using available agriculture wastes interferes domestic market satura...

R OLAND THAXTER published a bombshell in December, 1892. He reported that Chondromyces crocatus, before then considered an imperfect fungus because of its complex fruiting bodv, was actually a bacterium (Figure 1). THAXTER had discovered the unicellular vegetative stage of C. crocatus; the cells he found were relatively short and they divided by binary fission. C. crocatus was, he concluded...