Two hybrid poplar (Populus) clones (the fast-growing clone Beaupré (P. trichocarpa Torr. and Gray x P. deltoides Bartr. ex Marsh.) and the slow-growing clone Robusta (P. deltoides Bartr. ex Marsh. x P. nigra L.)) were grown from hardwood cuttings for one or two growing seasons (1993-1994) in either ambient or elevated (= ambient + 350 micro mol mol(-1)) CO(2) in open-top chambers at the Univers...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of statistical correction for intra-individual variation on estimated urinary iodine concentration (UIC) by sampling on 3 consecutive days in four seasons in children. SETTING School-aged children from urban and rural primary schools in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China. PARTICIPANTS 748 and 640 children aged 8-11 years were recruited from urban and rural schools...

We developed a model, termed D-PSA-K, to estimate the accumulated potential damage on kiwifruit canes caused by bacterial canker during the growing and overwintering seasons. The model consisted of three parts including estimation of the amount of necrotic lesion in a non-frozen environment, the rate of necrosis increase in a freezing environment during the overwintering season, and the amount ...

it is suggested that cultivars of wheat (triticum aestivum l.) with regulated growth and development would be able to produce higher yields under water-limited conditions, which is crucial in future food production. water use efficiency (wue) is worthy of exploration in this regard. in this study, the effects of nitrogen fertilizer levels (0, 40 and 80 kg nha-1) and a plant growth retardant (ch...

Different cultivars of rice (Oryza sativa) open at different times the day, and overlap anthesis time in between neighbouring is crucial importance to degree cross pollination rice. Nevertheless, none past experiments with ever reported respective flower opening (FOT) exposure duration (FED) parent cultivars, until recently. The authors present here first record FOT FED 1114 indica landraces So...

the seasonal abundance patterns of the cotton aphid, aphis gossypii glover, in cotton fields at gorgan in northern iran were studied during two growing seasons of 2002 and 2003. the spatial distribution of different developmental stages and morphs of the aphid was described by fitting data to poisson (random) and negative binomial (aggregated) dis-tributions, and calculating the dispersion indi...

Two field experiments were conductedunder surface irrigation system during two successive winter growing seasons 2017/2018 and 2018/2019in private farm atEl Qantra-West, Ismailia Governorate,Egyptto evaluate the effect of combinations three levels phosphorus fertilizer (0, 15.5 31.0 kg P

The leaf surface is the first barrier of grapevine plants towards various environmental stressors causing damage in vineyards. For this reason, identification of leaf surface metabolites in grapevine and their putative role in plant–environment interactions is important for viticulture. In this study, the leaf surface components of 16 grapevine plants (Vitis vinifera) growing in an experimental...