Crop water requirements of Roma tomato that planted on different spacing for four treatment and its replications in Nyagatare district Kinihira village have been computed with CROPWAT 8.0 using the meteorological parameters. The requirement was evapotranspiration (ET0), effective rainfall, Net Irrigation demand, Gross demand irrigation interval crops grown computed. Based rainfall data, soil ch...

We examined the genetics of hybrid incompatibility between two closely related diploid hermaphroditic plant species. Using a set of near-isogenic lines (NILs) representing 85% of the genome of the wild species Lycopersicon hirsutum (Solanum habrochaites) in the genetic background of the cultivated tomato L. esculentum (S. lycopersicum), we found that hybrid pollen and seed infertility are each ...

In vitro flowering and fruiting were induced in plants regenerated from calli of leaf explants of Lycopersicon esculentum var. Pant 11. MS medium supplemented with 2 mg/l BAP displayed the best response followed by MS with 2 mg/l BAP, 1 mg/ l ABA and 0.5 mg/l IAA. Flower buds were developed both directly from callus and regenerated plantlets from leaf explants under 16 h (39.3 μmol m-2s-1) phot...

Apomixis in cassava is formed by aposporic embryo sacs which arise from cells in nucellus or from cells in the sexual embryo sac. There is an association between sterility and apomixis. It seems that sterility caused by defected meioses triggers a specific gene for exhibiting apomixis. This apomictic mechanism is favoured by natural selection since it offers an escape from lethality and provide...

Tomato bushy stunt virus (TBSV) was detected in tomato crop (Lycopersicon esculentum) in Egypt with characteristic mosaic leaf deformation, stunting, and bushy growth symptoms. TBSV infection was confirmed serologically by ELISA and calculated incidence was 25.5%. Basic physicochemical properties of a purified TBSV Egh isolate were identical to known properties of tombusviruses of isometric 30-...

Details are given of the elimination of mitochondria which occurs during the first 1 to 2 hours of the life of the egg of the fern Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn. During this phase the only mitochondria present are swollen and appear degenerate, but subsequently the cytoplasm of the egg becomes filled with large mitochondria containing numerous villi. Accompanying the appearance of these mitocho...

Meloidogyne incognita (Kofoid and White) Chitwood has been separated into four races (R l -R4) based on the ability of different populations to parasitize 'NC95' tobacco and 'Deltapine 16' cotton (7). Since the designation of races within this species, several workers have at tempted to characterize them on the basis of reproduction on a common host. Araujo et al. (1) compared the reproduction ...