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The plant pathogen Botrytis cinerea can infect undamaged plant tissue directly by penetration of the cuticle. This penetration has been suggested to be enzyme-mediated, and an important role for cutinase in the infection process has been proposed. In this study the expression of the cutinase encoding gene cutA of B. cinerea was analyzed using a cutA promoter-GUS reporter gene fusion. Transforma...

The color of horticultural shade nets is known to influence crop growth and quality because variations in the amount light. Four ornamental plant species (celosia, begonia, gerbera, fountain grass) were grown under aluminet, pearl, red plus black as control at 50% intensity for 8 weeks. Black had least transmittance (∼10% 30% ambient) within spectrum (620–750 nm), whereas greatest ∼70% 80%. Alu...

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The main postharvest disorder of cut gerbera flowers is the stem bending and break. The cause of stem bending is not completely clear. Although the genetic background seems to play the major role, some plant hormones such as ethylene and cytokinins may enhance or reduce the incidence of stem break during postharvest life. The choice of withstand genotypes seems to be a good strategy. In fact, s...

gerbera cut flowers is one of the important and popular cut flowers in the world that regardless of increasing production of this plant in iran, the duration of its life is short due to rapid wilting petals and bending neck of flower. to increase vase life of gerbera cut flowers cv. ‘alain ducasse’, the essences of eucalyptus and rosa damascena, the combination of these two essences at a concen...