in vitro propagated and conventional runner propagated plantlets of strawberry (fragaria×ananassa duch) cv. ‘festival’ were transferred to the field and the size of crown for plants derived from both sources of planting material were compared. four sizes of the crown, i.e., < 0.5, 0.5-0.8, 0.8-1, and > 1 cm were taken from both sources of planting material. the results obtained flashed that veg...

In our country we have enormous low head potation flows in agricultures and aquacultures with almost fix flow rates that can be used as micro hydro power plants for producing energy. But the main problem is the high capital price per kW. Therefore there is needed to design a simple machine with a good runner for covering the various potential flows. In this paper an axial hydro turbine has desi...

In this work a response surface approach was used for predicting the hill chart of a small horizontal shaft Kaplan turbine. To this aim, artificial neural networks (ANN) were chosen as a fast, reliable, and computationally inexpensive tool. The training of the ANN was based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The optimization of the runner-guide vane stagger correlation is a time consuming a...

The development of superior peanut cultivars can be conducted through the steps enhancement genetic variation, inbreeding, selection, and yield trials. Genetic variation enhanced sexual hybridization (crossing). objectives this study were 1) to determine rate success artificial between runner/semi-runner Spanish/upright type peanut; 2) know phenotypic characters growth habit, pod size, number s...

Hydropower, a clean and renewable energy resource, has been developed worldwide for the economic development and improvement of people's living standards. It has also been used to improve the stability of the smart power grid. Depending on the water head of hydropower plants, various types of hydraulic turbines such as Francis, Kaplan and Pelton have been designed to maximize efficiency. Franci...

This paper develops a mathematical model, or formula, of the 100m sprint, which accurately describes the relationship between time elapsed and distance covered in the race. From this are derived formulae for velocity and acceleration. There are four constants in these formulae. They are constant throughout a particular performance of a particular runner, and they vary from performance to perfor...

The objective of this work was to test a closed soilless growing system for producing bare root transplants and runner tips of two strawberry clones, using two categories of substrates. The system used corrugated roofing panels of fiber‐cement, over which a substrate layer was used as a growing bed. The nutrient solution was pumped from a reservoir toward the upper end of the roofing panels and...

Wild strawberry (Fragaria vesca) microplants were inoculated at establishment in the glasshouse with the commercial inoculants Endorize IV, Vaminoc and Glomus mosseae. After 2 weeks, plants were transferred to control peat-based growth substrate and Suppressor®, a commercial peat substrate amended with chitin-containing shellfish waste. Percentage root length colonisation (%RLC) by Vaminoc and ...