Gladiolus is an important marketable cut flower, especially valued for use in floral arrangements. We assessed the effects of two different methods of application (foliar spray and drench) and various concentrations of gibberellic acid (GA3), salicylic acid (SA), mival (MI) and krizatcin (KR) on vegetative and reproductive features of Gladiolus hybridus. The experiment was planned in a factoria...

An understanding of the breeding systems and pollination of agriculturally important plants is critical to germplasm improvement. Breeding system characteristics greatly influence the amount and spatial distribution of genetic variation within and amongst populations and influence the rarity and extinction vulnerability of plant species. Many woody bamboos have a long vegetative period (20-150 ...

In Mediterranean durum wheat production, nitrogen (N) fertilization may be important to stabilize and increase yields. Wheat yield responses to N fertilization are usually related to grains per m(2), which in turn is the consequence of processes related to floret development (floret initiation followed by floret death/survival) during stem elongation. The literature is rather scarce in terms of...

IN a paper by Hopkins & Morgan [1936] it was shown that in aqueous solutions containing Szent Gyorgyi's oxidase together with ascorbic acid and glutathione, the former is protected by the latter from oxidation by the enzyme, while the glutathione is itself oxidized vicariously at a rate corresponding to that at which the ascorbic acid is oxidized when alone with the enzyme in similar concentrat...

• Exogenous PSKα application delays broccoli florets yellowing during cold storage. Lower MDA accumulation represents preserving membrane integrity. Promoting ROS scavenging systems contributes to lower H 2 O accumulation. Suppressing PLD and LOX expression is accompanying by triggering HSP70 HSP90 expression. Triggering IPT suppressing CKO higher cytokinin The of limits the economic nutritiona...