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Agricultural Sciences is an international journal dedicated to the advancements in agriculture throughout the world. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists, students, academics and engineers all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different are…
Xiaoyu Yang, Xiufeng Wang, Lijuan Wang, Min Wei
Vegetable crops such as cucumber and tomato are grown widely through the world using not only field but also protected farmland. Sensitive responses of many vegetables have been widely reported to environmental conditions such as light, air temperature, relat…
Lujiang Li, Yaoyu Xiong, Wensheng Chen, Yongjian Liu, Hai Lan, Haijian Lin, Kecheng Yang, Shibin Gao, Guangtang Pan
In this study, two donaors CN962 and 8065 were used to improve the resistance to northern leaf blight of the recurrent parent inbred line 08-641 (R08). A total of 79 lines (BC2F4) were developed by a bidirectional selection based on the similarity and dissimi…
Sujit Adhikary
Earthworm has caught imagination of philosophers like Pascal and Thoreau. Yet its role in the nutrition of agricultural fields has attracted attention of researchers worldwide only in recent decades. Waste management is considered as an integral part of a sus…
Cheng-Kui Qiang, Bao-Ya Zhou, Xiao-Zheng Yang, Feng Wei, Zheng-Li Lu, Song-Song Wang, Yue-Hua Qin, Sheng-yong Wang
Metallothionein (MT) gene has an important role in the detoxification of toxic metals especially some heavy metals. Based on the published sequences of MT genes from Agaricus bisporus, Garnoderma lucidum, Taiwanofungus camphoratus and Paxillus involutus as a…
Thomas P. Kuhar, Erin M. Hitchner, Roger R. Youngman, Kenji Mori, Joseph C. Dickens
Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata , is attracted to ( S )-3,7-dimethyl-2-oxo-oct-6-ene-1,3-diol [( S )-CPB I], a male-produced aggregation pheromone. Pitfall trap studies were conducted to assess the relative attraction of L. decemlineata adul…
T. S. Sahota, Sukhdev S. Malhi
Intercropping, a mix of non-legume and legume crops, can improve crop yield and/or economic returns and reduce input costs. Field experiments (barley-pea intercrop) were conducted in 2008, 2010 and 2011 on an Oskondoga silt loam soil at Thunder Bay, Ontario,…
Hiromi Ikeura, Takahiko Tokuda, Yasuyoshi Hayata
In Japan, zucchini culture has yet to get underway, and the current costs of zucchini can be attributed to damage from soil-borne disease and the unstable yields due to seasonal change of female flowers. Eradication of these problems will lead to stable suppl…
Mohammad Ali Al-Deeb
This electronic document is a “live” template. The various The saw-toothed grain beetle, Oryzaephilus surinamensis (L.) (Coleoptera: Silvanidae), is the most important insect pest attacking stored dates in the United Arab Emirates. We sought to determine the…
Ali S. Moubarak, Hehai Wang, Zelpha B. Johnson, Charles F. Rosenkrans
This study was conducted to investigate the effect of the ergot alkaloid, ergotamine (ET), on the induction of CYP3A and the interaction in vivo and in vitro with ET. Sprague-Dawley rats were treated intraperitoneally for 4 days as follows: control (injecting…
Gutu Tesso, Bezabih Emana, Mengistu Ketema
This article analyzes the vulnerability and resilience levels of farm households in North Shewa, Ethiopia, using a survey of 452 households. Agro ecological based classification was done to analyze vulnerability to climate change induced shocks. Integrated vu…
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