Apical florets of maize (Zea mays L.) ears differentiate later than basal florets and form kernels which have lower dry matter accumulation rates. The purpose of this study was to determine whether increasing the temperature of apical kernels during the dry matter accumulation period would alter the difference in growth rate between apical and basal kernels. Apical regions of field-grown maize ...

The black walnut (Juglans nigra L.) is an underutilized fruit in the mid-hills of Nepal. However, the physico-chemical properties of Nepalese black walnut are almost unavailable in the literature. Four walnut growing districts namely Baitadi, Dadeldhura, Jumla and East Rukum selected and the black walnut collected at commercial maturity from the local markets. The physical properties w...

The purpose of the current research was to study and identify new promising pea lines with stable indicators trait ‘1000-seed weight’. carried out in fields laboratory for legumes breeding seed production FSBSI Agricultural Research Center “Donskoy”, located southern part Rostov region, Competitive Variety Testing 2018–2020. objects were 12 developed by “ARC “Donskoy”. standard variety ‘Aksaisk...

Pecan [Carya illinoinensis (Wangenh.) K. Koch] trees developed necrotic areas in the leaves late in the growing season. July samples indicated that leaf P (0.114% DW) and K (0.62% DW) were low, but other elements were within accepted sufficiency ranges. Relationships between leaf P and K concentrations with nut quality and return bloom were determined. Trees were rated for leaf necrosis 1 Octob...

an experiment with 240 one-day-old lohman male broilers was conducted to investigate the effects of different levels of palm kernel meal supplemented diet with/without enzyme on performance and lactic acid bacteria population of ceca. birds were distributed in 20 experimental units and data were analyzed in a complete randomized design with 2x2 arrangement plus a control diet.the levels of palm...

Many color-based image retrieval systems define the similarity (with regard to color) between two images as the similarity between the probability distributions of the color vectors in the images. These probability distributions are almost always estimated by histograms. Histograms have however the disadvantage that they are discontinuous and their form depends on the selection of the histogram...

The present study was carried out to estimate genetic variability parameters for some traits such as pods per plant, cell membrane stability, one thousand kernel weight, flowering period, grain filling period, chlorophyll content, relative water content, leaf excised water content, seed per pod and pod length, in 16 winter rapeseed genotypes. Statistical analysis showed significant differences ...

The genetic control of grain weight (GW) remains poorly understood. Quantitative trait loci (QTLs) determining the GW of rice were identified using a natural GW mutant, sgw. Using a segregating population derived from sgw (low GW) and cultivar 9311 ('9311'; indica, high GW), the chromosome segment associated with GW was detected on the short arm of chromosome 7. To validate and further refine t...