ten gerbera cultivars (‘labinel’, ‘lilla’, ‘alp’, ‘alberino’, ‘bonnie’, ‘avemaria’, ‘mammut’, ‘lexus’, ‘‘terramixa ’ & ‘sarolta’) were evaluated for their growth, yield and quality characteristics under protected conditions during 2011. among the cultivars studied, there were highly significant variations observed for growth, yield and quality parameters. longest stalk length (60.3 cm) was ...

J APER*, B DE CAUWER†, S DE ROO†, M LOURENC O‡, V FIEVEZ‡, R BULCKE† & D REHEUL§ *Plant Sciences Unit, Applied Genetics and Breeding, Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research, Melle, Belgium, †Weed Science Unit, Department of Plant Production, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium, ‡Laboratory for Animal Nutrition and Animal Product Quality, Department of Animal Production, Ghent University,...

Plant health can be augmented by plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) that confer biofertilizer, phytostimulation, and biocontrol activities. Herein, we provide the high-quality draft genome sequence of Serratia fonticola strain AU-AP2C, a Gram-negative motile PGPR of the pea plant, conferring phosphate solubilization, ammonia production, and antifungal activity against Fusarium sp. The ...

Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus L. is a herbaceous perennial plant that could be drought tolerant once established after the first year. To evaluate the effects of water stress on growth parametersand forage quality of this plant, a field experiment was conducted using a randomized complete block design with three replications in Isfahan, Iran during 2013-2015. Treatments wer...

This study was to estimate the GCA of the parents and SCA considered for the development of high yielding and better quality cultivars. Eleven genotypes and 28 F1 hybrids obtained by crossing 4 lines and 7 testers in line X tester mating system were sown in randomized complete block design. L X T analysis revealed significant GCA and SCA effects for all the traits except earliness. Among the pa...

rik Simmons has 15 years experience in multiple aspects of software and quality engineering. rik currently works as Platform Quality Engineer in the Platform Quality Methods group, part of the orporate Quality Network at Intel Corporation. He is responsible for Requirements Engineering ractices at Intel, and lends support to several other corporate software and product quality initiatives. rik ...

The control of a drinking-water treatment plant aims to produce the correct quantity of water, with a constant quality. Achieving constant water quality is not an obvious task, since the online water-quality measurements and possible control actions are limited. Applying model-based control improves disturbance rejection and online process optimisation. For the softening process step, the integ...

The article studies whether training prior to laboratory work (with a multimedia interactive programme), as a complement to the traditional practicaltheoretical teaching of tablet manufacturing, has brought advantages to pharmaceutical technology learning and, in consequence, increased the quality of the tablets produced by the students in the educational pilot plant. Evaluation is a key aspect...