The disease attacks the plant in an early stage of growth, infecting the young tillers at ground level (Plate 1, B). Infected plants remain small in size and are characterized by the presence of abundant dry leaves and leaf sheaths. The infected stool displays symptoms of starvation and later it may collapse completely. During the initial stage of infection, leaf sheaths on the lower part of th...

High throughput assays have been developed to measure the ice nucleation activity of transgenic tobacco, Nicotiana tabacum L. cv. Petit Havana SR1 plants expressing the ice nucleation gene, inaZ, from Pseudomonas syringae at a young seedling stage, as well as in leaf tissue. Both assays are carried out in 96-well microtitre plates. The first assay involves direct seeding in vitro, one seed per ...

Nitrogen is a vital element in crops, and its management is a key measure to improve their yield and quality. Real-time monitoring of crop nitrogen content is needed to optimize products and crop production. In this paper we use chlorophyll fluorescence source to obtain pepper leaf image for machine vision and digital image processing and establish a greenhouse pepper leaf nitrogen content rapi...

activity of fresh neem leaf juice to immobilize, anaesthetize and fatal effect were studied against two live fish species, anabas testudineus and channa punctatus. the concentrations, 5, 10, 15 and 20% of neem leaf juice affected both the species, but a.  testudineus was found to be comparatively more susceptible to the treatment  than c.  punctatus . the time required to immobilize were 4 to >...

in order to study the effects of foliar application of naa and plant thinning on growth, yield and fruit quality of melon genotype khatooni, the experiment was conducted in a randomized complete block design with three replications at research field of faculty of agriculture, university of zanjan. treatments consisted of foliar application of naa at three levels (25, 50 and 100 mg.l-1 at 4-6 tr...

a field study was conducted to evaluate the effect of haloxyfop-r-methyl ester doses in different grass weeds in various growing stages in safflower during 2011-2012 growing season in research farm of college of agriculture, shiraz university. the study was carried our as split split plot based on randomized complete block design with three replicates. the main factor, sub factor and sub sub fa...

to evaluate the effects of pgpr foliar spraying on forage and grain yield of forage sorghum (var. speedfeed), a farm experiment was conducted in research farm of college of agriculture, university of tehran in 2009. the experimental design consisted of a randomized complete blocks consisting of 17 treatments in every block. in this research, the effect of foliar application of 16 different stra...

the experiment was aimed at investigating the effects of defoliation (i. e. amanipulation of source size) at different times and with different intensities on yield, grain protein content and remobilization of dry matter from shoot to grain under various levels of soil moisture and nitrogen in winter wheat. two separate field experiments were conducted simultaneously under water stress vs irrig...

in order to evaluate the effect of freezing stress on safflower (carthamus tinctorius l.) genotypes, an experiment was conducted in faculty of agriculture, ferdowsi university of mashhad, iran. treatments included 6 genotypes (k.w.3, k.w.6, k.w.16, zarghan 279, line 295 and il-111) and freezing temperatures (0, -4, -8, -12, -16 and -20 ˚c). the trial was arranged as factorial based on completel...