BACKGROUND Pollination has a great effect on the yield of fruit trees. Blow flies are considered as an effective pollinator compared to hand pollination in fruit orchards. Therefore, this study was designed to evaluate the effect of different pollination methods in mango orchards. METHODOLOGY The impact of pollination on quantity and quality of mango yield by blow flies was estimated by using...

The objective of this study was to determine the appropriate growth stage of inflorescence (spathe) explants among different cultivars of the date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) and to define the optimum period of incubation on high-auxin medium. Inflorescence explants were excised from seven Pakistani cvs. at different growth stages and cultured on a basal MS medium containing 100 mg l 2,4-D fo...

Reproductive success (RS) in orchids in general, and in non-rewarding species specifically, is extremely low. RS is pollinator and pollination limited in food deceptive orchids, but this has rarely been studied in sexually deceptive orchid species. Here, we tested the effects of several individual (plant height, inflorescence size, nearest neighbour distance and flower position) and population ...

The Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) compact inflorescence (cif) genotype causes altered adult vegetative development and a reduction in elongation of inflorescence internodes resulting in formation of floral clusters. The cif trait requires both a recessive mutation, cif1, and the activity of a naturally occurring dominant allele of an unlinked gene, CIF2(D). We show here that the pseudovert...

Development in higher plants depends on the activity of meristems, formative regions that continuously initiate new organs at their flanks. Meristems must maintain a balance between stem cell renewal and organ initiation. In fasciated mutants, organ initiation fails to keep pace with meristem proliferation. The thick tassel dwarf1 (td1) mutation of maize affects both male and female inflorescen...

We present the initial phenotypic characterization of an Arabidopsis mutation, terminal flower 1-1 (tfl1-1), that identifies a new genetic locus, TFL1. The tfl1-1 mutation causes early flowering and limits the development of the normally indeterminate inflorescence by promoting the formation of a terminal floral meristem. Inflorescence development in mutant plants often terminates with a compou...

The aim of the study was to demonstrate feasibility using hydrogen peroxide stabilized with silver (H2O2-Ag+) and selected fungicides for treatment hyacinth bulbs determine their effects on development fungi colonizing substrate impact plant growth development. Hydrogen captan, pyraclostrobin + boscalid methyl thiophanate tetraconazole were used treat before planting, in form a 20 min soak. eff...

background and objectives: quinoa (chenopodium quinoa willd.) is a member of amaranthaceae family that originated in the andean region in bolivia, chile and peru five thousands of years and so it has a tiny and round seeds. quinoa in different combinations of food used as food, as well as how to cook like rice grains and known as the inca rice in the south american countries. the high nutrition...

The investigation aimed to study the effect of foliar application chemicals on plant canopy, vegetative growth and flowering, as well overall appearance Ixora chinensis plants grown in pot. Application salicylic acid, benzyl adenine silicon at different concentrations significantly influenced growth, pigments compared untreated (control). Plants treated with 10 mg/l 20 acid showed significant i...

Abstract This experiment was carried out in the laboratory of College Agric. and Forestry at University Mosul, with aim studying some indicators cut inflorescences quality two cultivars Chrysanthemum plant ( Dendranthema grandiflorum Ramat.) white red delaying their senescence, as bases were immersed holding solution containing gibberellic acid 0 25 mgl −1 calcium carbonate 0, 100 200 interacti...