Two soybean breeding lines (D82-2397A and J82-190) resistant to Heterodera glycines race 5 produced higher yields (P = 0.05) than the race 4-resistant cultivar Bedford for 2 years when planted in a field infested with H. glycines race 5 at Tiptonville, Tennessee. Yields were not different between D82-2397A and Bedford when planted in fields infested with race 3, race 9, or with no cyst nematode...

field trials. The use of row-column analysis or neighbor analysis has been shown to increase the precision of a Spatial analyses of yield trials are a powerful method of adjusting large number of grain yield trials (Cullis and Gleeson, treatment means for spatial variation and improving statistical precision of mean estimation. Because yield trials are typically repeated 1989; Cullis and Gleeso...

Total proteins, esterases and acid phosphatases from pollen, seeds and leaves of three sunflower cultivars were separated by 2-D electrophoresis. The characteristic peptides for each cultivar were identified. The seeds and pollen of the cultivar Wielkopolski contained 45 and 37 characteristic peptides, respectively, while the seeds and pollen of Coril contained 73 and 35 characteristic peptides...

The availability of soybean mutants with altered symbiotic properties allowed an investigation of the shoot or root control of the relevant phenotype. By means of grafts between these mutants and wild-type plants (cultivar Bragg and Williams), we demonstrated that supernodulation as well as hypernodulation (nitrate tolerance in nodulation and lack of autoregulation) is shoot controlled in two m...

Elettaria cardamomum (L.) Maton, or small cardamom referred as 'queen of spices', is a perennial herbaceous rhizomatous monocot of the family Zingiberaceae. Cardamom seeds and fruits are the economically significant parts and effectively used as a traditional medicine, food additive and flavoring agent. In the present study, using Ion Proton next generation sequencing technology we performed th...

Using two lowland rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivars we found that in both cases submerged-induced elongation early after germination depends on gibberellins (GAs). Submergence increases the content of the active GA 1 by enhancing the expression of GA biosynthesis genes, thus facilitating the seedlings to escape from the water and preventing asphyxiation. However, the two cultivars differ in thei...

The present study examined free-radical scavenging enzyme activity and the levels of lipid peroxide, ascorbic acid, nitric oxide and glutathione in 1616C rootstock and the Razaki cultivar of Vitis vinifera L. under treatment with different concentrations of salt. At day 7, in leaves of both 1616C rootstock and cv. Razaki treated with 12 mM NaCl there were significant increases in glutathione pe...

Salt stress inhibits soybean growth and reduces gain yield. Genetic improvement of salt tolerance is essential for sustainable soybean production in saline areas. In this study, we isolated a gene (Ncl) that could synchronously regulate the transport and accumulation of Na(+), K(+), and Cl(-) from a Brazilian soybean cultivar FT-Abyara using map-based cloning strategy. Higher expression of the ...

Effect of five NaCl salinity treatments (0, 50, 100, 200 and 300 mM) given at different growth and developmental stages on total N level and in vitro nitrate reductase activity (NRA) in leaves and roots of two wheat cultivars viz., Ghods and Boolani was studied in greenhouse conditions. In response to salinity treatments, total N concentrations and NO3 assimilation rates in Ghods, a saltsensiti...

abstract in order to evaluate crop water stress index (cwsi) and canopy temperature of wheat cultivars under terminal drought stress, a field experiment was conducted at the agricultural research station of shiraz university, shiraz, during 2009 growing season. five wheat cultivars including shiraz, bahar, pishtaz, sistan and yavaros and four levels of water regime including well watering [irr...