during 2001-2005, 79 isolates of rhizoctonia from seed rot, seedling damping –off, root rot and dry rot canker of sugar beet were collected. based on morphological characteristics, number of nuclei per cell and hyphal diameter, isolates were classified in two groups, binucleate (4 isolates) and multinucleate (75 isolates). among 75 multinucleate isolates ,27 isolates were identified as  ag4, 28...

cover type of on–farm storages has an important role in reducing the freezing damage and respiration of beet roots in the pile. this experiment was conducted in 2006 in karaj region in order to evaluate the effects of cover types of storage on the mass and sugar losses of both topped and untopped beets. the experimental design was a split plot factorial in rcbd with three replications. the main...

Emphasis over the past year has been on editorial effort to bring Chapter 44, Sugar and Sugar Products of the Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL (OMA) to the high standards set for the 17th Edition of the compendium. In addition, 2 method studies were reported and subjected to peer review, respectively, dealing with detection of adulteration of maple syrup by beet or cane sugar ...

to determine the role of fusarium species associated with sugar beet root  and crown rot, diseased samples were collected  from different fields of sugar beet in iran including khorasan, khuzestan west azarbayejan, qazvin, tehran, kermanshah ,kerman,lorestan ,hamedan,charmahal va bachtiary provinces during growing seasons 1999-2002. in total, 94 isolates of fusarium were obtained. based on morp...

sugar beet is one of the major products in qazvin plain that allocated most of planting areas to itself after wheat, barley and corn. in recent years, restriction on water resources decreased sugar beet planting area in this plain. therefore, in this study, the effects of increase in sugar beet planting area on planting pattern, grower's gross profit, and inputs utilization under water sho...

due to the high antagonistic activity of bacterium, bacillus subtilis (ehrenberg) cohn, three isolates (b.s.ham, 204 and 202) were selected and their efficacy were studied in control of sugar beetdamping–off caused by rhizoctonia solani , in  in vitro and in vivo conditions.  in dual culture on pda, all isolates of b.subtilis inhibited mycelial growth of r.solani.  significantly, volatile metab...

this study aimed to modify the current purchase formula of sugar beet into a formula with different coefficients with respect to sugar percentage of autumn sugar beet. ahvaz sugar factory was selected as an autumn sowing factory in iran and 163 samples were randomly taken at different delivery times in 2007 (28th april to 27th june).  from each truck, one sample was taken and sugar content, wat...

Sugar beet pulp is a by-product from the processing of sugar beets into sugar. Beet pulp is extracted grounded sugar beet. It is used as livestock feed and it can be fed fresh, dried and ensiled (fermented beet pulp). Sugar beet pulp is a by-product from the processing of sugar beet which is used as fodder for cattle and other livestock. It is supplied either as dried flakes or as compressed pe...

in 2006 the sugar beet crop production iniranwas largest ever.  in this year, 6,603,383 t with average sugar content of 16.84% delivered to the 32 sugar factories during five months of the campaign. from begining of the campaign until early–november there was balance between the amount of sugar beet delivered and that of processed by the sugar factories.  however, delivered beet to the factorie...