identification of quantitative trait loci is one of the important issues in breeding program especially under stress condition. plant material in the present study was a natural population including 72 tobacco genotypes. in order to apply osmotic stress, mannitol with 0.33 molar concentrations was used. the genotyping of individual were performed using 21 out of 35 primer combinations of aflp m...

The present study was conducted to find out correlation and path analysis for 10 yield attributing traits using 159 diverse pea genotypes. Correlation studies revealed that the days 50% flowering, node at which 1st pod appears, number of pods/plant, seeds/pod, length, weight picking had significant positive with total yield/plant while, plant height shelling percentage were negatively correlate...

In modern agriculture, the substrate industry prefers porous materials for plants to provide water and nutrients in soilless cultivation. Composted sawdust is such a substrate. The interested avoiding composting because it time labor-consuming. study objective was evaluate whether non-composted (fresh) Bombax ceiba (red cotton tree) with added could be an alternative composted okra production. ...

Peppermint (Mentha piperita L.), a herbaceous and perennial species whichis produced mainly for the medicine and food. The peppermint plants were initiated from 10 cm-long rhizome cuttings followed by transferring into pots. The 48 h-treated plants with methyl jasmonate (MJ) concentrations (0, 0.1, 0.5 mM) were assessed for their total soluble proteins, malondialdehyde (MDA), chlorophylls a, b ...

The inherent problems associated with inorganic fertilizer such as scarcity and high cost informed the invention of cocoa pod husk based organic fertilizer. The impact of the fertilizer on cocoa output is hereby investigated in this study. The study was conducted in Cross-River State, Nigeria and purposive random sampling technique was used to select fifty cocoa farmers including the user and n...

Common bean (Phaseolus vulgar is L.) demand is increasing with an alarming rate around the world, especially in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Therefore, increased bean yield per hectare i.s the best way to meet the world demand rather than expansion of area under cultivation. The objectives of this experiment were to determine the genotypic variations for green bean and dry seed yield and ma...

Seed shattering in crops is a key domestication trait due to its relevance for seed dispersal, yield, and fundamental questions in evolution (e.g., convergent evolution). Here, we focused on pod shattering in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), the most important legume crop for human consuption in the world. With this main aim, we developed a methodological pipeline that comprises a thorough ...

Based on several simplifying assumptions, a stochastic approach is developed that allows an estimation of the effects of non-regular spatial patterns of the distribution of individual plants on the mean value (K ) of trait per area. In this approach, two random variables are attached to each plant: single plant trait measurement (E) and individual space per plant (A). The latter is estimated by...