High berry yield and quality of conventionally organically grown cranberry stands require proper nutrient sources dosage. Our objective was to model the response cultivar “Stevens” N, P, K, Mg, Cu, B fertilization under conventional organic farming systems. A 3-year trial conducted on permanent plots at four production sites in Quebec, Canada. We analyzed predictors, marketable yield, fruit soi...

Today, natural colorants are emerging globally due to their safety and environmental friendly characteristics. Natural dyes have been employed in dyeing Persian carpet piles for many years. Food and fruit industry wastes are one of the main sources of colorants which can be employed for textile coloration. Eggplant (Solanum melongena), a member of the family Solanaceae, is used in food recipes....

The study was conducted as open field trial, with irrigation, the Clery strawberry variety. aim of to investigate effect foliar application on berry and seaweed extract yield quality fruit (sugar, acid anthocyanin content). experiment set up by random block system in 4 repetitions. following treatments were applied crop: 1. control, 2. conventional NPK fertilization (10-52-10), 3. 30% reduced f...

Poinsettia is an economically important ornamental potted plant in which certain bract colour variants are often obtained by mutation breeding. Previously, poinsettia, we identified Bract1, a GST gene involved the sequestration and transport of anthocyanins to vacuole. This carries short, highly mutable 4-bp repeat its coding region. Loss one unit leads loss function for homozygous mutants, ant...

Breeding at both interspecific and intergeneric levels is an effective method for expanding genetic variation of cruciferous crops; however, few commercially accepted varieties have been released because difficulties in generating fertile progenies. We employed backcross strategy to introduce Eruca vesicaria-specific characteristics into Brassica rapa successfully obtained four BC1F1 lines that...