Hydrogen gas (H2) and carbon monoxide (CO) are involved in plant growth and developmental processes and may induce plant tolerance to several stresses. However, the independent roles and interaction effect of H2 and CO in adventitious root development under drought conditions have still not received the needed research attention. We hypothesize that there exists crosstalk between H2 and CO duri...

With increasing frequency and intensity of dry spells in the cocoa production zones West Africa, strategies for mitigating impact water stress on seedling survival are urgently required. We investigated effects applied potassium biomass accumulation, physiological processes varieties subjected to pot experiments a gauzehouse facility. Four levels (0, 1, 2, or 3 g/plant as muriate potash) were u...

A pot experiment was conducted to determine the response of two recent forage sorghum cultivars (JS-2002 and Chakwal Sorghum) and an old one (JS-263) to three levels of soil moisture (30%, 50% and 70% field capacity). Several traits were assessed addressing plant morphology, functional growth, leaf water status, biomass yield and water use efficiency (WUE). Soil moisture variation greatly affec...

Research Project of Optical Information Technology at ETL under RWC program is given in detail. In this program, firstly, so called CAD (computer-aided design) system for optical devices will be established for the purpose of acceleration on the development of semiconductor optical devices. Devices developed under the CAD system will be implemented into new types of optical information systems ...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Since salinity and drought stress can occur together, an assessment was made of their interacting effects on leaf water relations, osmotic adjustment and net gas exchange in seedlings of the relatively chloride-sensitive Carrizo citrange, Citrus sinensis x Poncirus trifoliata. METHODS Plants were fertilized with nutrient solution with or without additional 100 mm NaCl (sal...

BACKGROUND In emergency research, obtaining informed consent can be problematic. Research to develop and improve treatments for patients admitted to hospital with life-threatening and debilitating conditions is much needed yet the issue of research without consent (RWC) raises concerns about unethical practices and the loss of individual autonomy. Consistent with the policy and practice turn to...

Drought is one of the major threats to cowpea productivity in tropical countries, and understanding its impacts germane ensuring food security a global context. The present study was established screen some accessions for drought tolerance at flowering stage pots under controlled conditions house. High significant differences were observed among wilting recovery traits, stomatal conductance, re...

Use of physiological parameters as fast tools to screen for drought tolerance in sugarcane: Drought is one of the major limitations to plant productivity worldwide. Identifying suitable screening tools and quantifiable traits would facilitate the crop improvement process for drought tolerance. In the present study, we evaluated the ability of four relatively physiological parameters (variable-t...

Salinity is one of the major environmental constraints affecting agriculture in regions world. This study was conducted to evaluate effect exogenous nitric oxide (NO) treatments on two chickpea cultivars (Cagatay and Inci) under salt stress conditions. Different NO doses (0. 75 100 μM sodium nitroprusside (SNP)) as an source were applied plants grown saline (presence 50 mM NaCl) nonsaline In th...

The committee on text processing technology of JEIDA (Japan Electronics Industry Development Association) has been developing its bilingual corpus for research on machine translation systems since the 1996 Japanese fiscal year. An overview of this bilingual corpus is presented in this paper. And other linguistic data recently developed in Japan, which includes the RWC text database and the simp...