Drought tolerance was evaluated in twelve cultivars of three ornamental Tagetes species (T. patula, T. tenuifolia and T. erecta). A stress treatment was performed by completely stopping watering of plants maintained in controlled greenhouse conditions. After three weeks, several plant growth parameters (stem length (SL), fresh weight (FW) and water content (WC)), photosynthetic pigments (chloro...

Part of the first author’s Ph.D. thesis. PROBIOL, UNCuyo, Argentina. ABSTRACT Fusarium basal rot (FBR), which is caused predominantly by Fusarium oxysporum and F. proliferatum, is the main limiting factor of onion crops. Resistant cultivars obtained in other countries do not behave as such in Argentina crop fields. The cultivars AntárticaINTA, Grano de Oro-Seminis, Valcatorce-INTA and TW-2007 (...

reactions of 20 cucumber cultivars, tested to fusarium stem and root rot disease, have ranged from susceptible to tolerant. the most susceptible cultivars were 8-ayat, 32-pv, cb- 61688222, janette, nasco, negeen, nicoo 100, psr36-47112, rubah-l, rubah-s and sultan and tolerant cultivars were 120118, ayat, jakie, fd-c101, festival, khassib, psr 36-45007, sr36-45664 and storm. between these culti...

Aluminum (Al) toxicity is the key factor limiting wheat production in acid soils. Soil liming has been used widely to increase the soil pH, but due to its high cost, breeding tolerant cultivars is more cost-effective mean to mitigate the problem. Tolerant cultivars could be developed by traditional breeding, genetic transformation or introgression of genes from wild relatives. We used 30 wheat ...

Drought and salinity are the major environmental factors that affect rice productivity. Comparative transcriptome analysis between tolerant and sensitive rice cultivars can provide insights into the regulatory mechanisms involved in these stress responses. In this study, the comparison of transcriptomes of a drought-tolerant [Nagina 22 (N22)] and a salinity-tolerant (Pokkali) rice cultivar with...

Twenty locally grown tomato cultivars were evaluated for their in vitro heat tolerance. Leaf discs were collected during vegetative, flowering and fruiting stages and incubated in water bath at 40°C for 1, 2 and 3 hours. Electrical conductivity (EC) was measured as an indication of cell injury due to electrolytes leakage. The results indicated that cultivars can be classified into three groups ...

Salinity is an environmental stress that limits growth and development in plants. Due to high salinity in Khuzestan soils it is necessary to identify cultivars with appropriate yield that are compatible with Khuzestan conditions. This experiment was done to evaluate three rice cultivars for salinity tolerance at seedling stage by measuring the absorption of sodium and potassium ions and the rat...

Rapeseed is a valuable oil crop due to its high nutritious value and ample content. The current study provides comparative analysis of 24 cultivars better understand the performance predict adaptative mechanisms drought-tolerant drought-sensitive based on germination morphophysiological traits during early seedling stage using PEG-6000 simulated drought conditions. JYZ 158 FY 520 (tolerant cult...