Salvia miltiorrhiza, which is commonly known as Danshen, is a traditional Chinese herbal medicine. To illustrate its physiological and biochemical responses to salt stress and to evaluate the feasibility of cultivating this plant in saline coastal soils, a factorial experiment under hydroponic conditions was arranged on the basis of a completely randomised design with three replications. Five s...

As a spice and medicinal plant, Aloysia citriodora Palau (Family, Verbenaceae) is applied in nutritional and pharmacological purposes. According to the findings, many parameters relating to growth location and cultivation conditions, may affect on the secondary metabolites of the herb and result in different percentage of concerned constituents. Accordingly, present study was performed to compa...

In 2050, Mexico’s population will reach 150 million people, about 80% of whom will likely live in urban centers. This increase in population will necessitate increased food production in the country. The lands classified as drylands in Mexico occupy approximately 101.5 million hectares, or just over half the territory, limiting the potential for agricultural expansion. In addition to the proble...

‘Big Beef’ tomatoes produced 2.68 kg/plant from a 72 day harvest period when they were grown in 0.35 liter aluminum beverage cans by a sub-irrigation hydroponic method. Tomatoes growing in net pots (70 ml) suspended by expanded polystyrene bead boards with a sub-irrigation method gave similar yields in one trial but lower yields in another trial than tomatoes growing in beverage cans. Tomatoes ...

1. This document is HS405, one of a series of the Horticultural Sciences Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date, January 2010. Visit the EDIS Web site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu. 2. Richard Tyson, director, Orange County Extension Office, Orlando, FL; Robert Hochmuth, multicounty extension...

Aquaculture industries have grown recently, but there is still a lack of information on culture techniques for the early life stages Pyropia sp. (Rhodophyta). This research aimed to determine optimum concentration Bayfolan® brand commercial sources essential nutrients and La Molina® A B hydroponic solution, growth development "conchocelis" stage Pyropia. The phase was investigated under conditi...

to investigate the impact of overexpression of atnrt2.1 transgene from arabidopsis on nitrate uptake rate and to understand the regulation of endogenous hats by nitrate and glutamine amino acid (gln) in tobacco plants, wild-type and transgenic (f line) plants grown on soil for 4 weeks were transferred to hydroponic culture in a controlled-environment with a 16/8h l:d photoperiod at 24? c/20...

Cucumber fruits (Cucumis sativus L., cv. Trópico F1) grown on perlite substrate and NFT (Nutrient Film Technique) were harvested during two seasons (winter and spring) to monitor the effects of climatic conditions and hydroponic growth systems on fruit quality at harvest. The best fruit quality at harvest, as measured by lightness and hue angle parameters, was obtained during the 3 weeks follow...

dehydrogenase, which catalyzes the biosynthesis of mannitol from fructose, was cloned from Escherichia coli and transferred to poplar (Populus tomentosa Carr.) through Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. The transgenic plants were screened and selected on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium containing 30 – 50 mg l – 1 kanamycin and verified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and Southern blottin...