Soil salinity limits agricultural land use and crop productivity, thereby a major threat to global food safety. Plants treated with several phytohormones including cytokinins were recently proved as powerful tool enhance plant’s adaptation against various abiotic stresses. The current study was designed investigate the potential role of 6-benzyladenine (BA) improve broad bean (Vicia faba L.) to...

Cover cropping has been strongly promoted, but few growers have realized the benefits of this practice due to challenges linked economic returns and whole-system management. In western United States, winter legumes including faba bean potential add value while offering soil health compared with fallow fields. This experiment assessed five vegetable varieties for fresh pod yield, quality, biomas...

Broad bean (Vicia faba) is a herbaceous climbing plant that can self-pollinate and grow in any type of soil. It is now cultivated throughout the world and commonly used in cooking. Vicia faba belongs to the Fabaceae family and comprises 3 distinct varieties: Vicia faba var minor, Vicia faba var equina, and Vicia faba var major, which is the most widely eaten. Broad beans are eaten raw, cooked, ...

Chromosomes and nuclei isolated from neutral formalin-fixed Vicia faba lateral roots were treated with trypsin, pepsin, RNase, or DNase. Only trypsin affected the morphology of the chromosomes and nuclei. The appearance of the chromosomes after trypsin digestion indicated that each chromatid contained four strands that could be seen with an ordinary light microscope. The experiments are interpr...

Faba bean (Vicia faba L.) is a highland legume having potential for soil conservation. Upscaling cultivation requires initial inquiry on its growth and yield. In this research, we have investigated bean’s yield in different location (high tunnel open field) under population density (1, 2, 3 plants per pot). We found that interaction between has significant effect number of leaves, shoot fresh w...

Parasitoid host selection behaviour has been extensively studied in experimentally simplified tritrophic systems formed by one single food chain (one plant, one herbivore and one parasitoid species). The "Mother knows best" hypothesis predicts that the preference for a plant-host complex should be positively correlated with plant quality for offspring performance. We studied the host selection ...