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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…
Krista Shellie, Brad Brown
Deficit irrigation is widely used in wine grape production ( Vitis vinifera L.) to meet wine quality goals yet its influence on tissue nutrient indices has not been well studied. The objective of this research was to determine whether response to water defici…
Xinhua Yin, Xiao-Lan Huang, Jac le Roux
Water and nitrogen (N) management are key factors for sustainable pear production in many areas. Effects of integrated N fertilization and irrigation systems, rootstocks, and cultivars on pear ( Pyrus communis ) mineral nutrition, irrigation water and N consu…
Xin-Yu Fu, Song-Xing Peng, Shuai Yang, Yong-Hui Chen, Jing-Yi Zhang, Wei-Ping Mo, Jian-Yun Zhu, Yao-Xiong Ye, Xu-Ming Huang
Annona atemoya Hort cv. African Pride (AP) is highly valued due to its high quality and unique flavor, but highly susceptible to water-logging. Prevalence of root diseases in saturated soils is one of the main problems in production, which restricts the devel…
M. M. Hussein, S. Y. El-Faham, A. K. Alva
Irrigation with high salinity water influences plant growth, production of photosynthetic pigments and total phenols, leading to reduction in crop yield and quality. The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of potassium (K) foliar applicatio…
Leônidas P. Passos, Maurício Marini Köpp, Francisco J. Silva Lédo
A study was carried out to evaluate the development of 12 tetraploid alfalfa cultivars exposed to Al toxicity in nutrient solution. Newly germinated seedlings of cultivars Alfa 200, Alto, Araucana, Costera, Crioula, Esmeralda, Falcon, F-708, Rio, Romagnola, V…
Edwin Mwiti Mutegi, James Biu Kung’u, Mucheru Muna, Pypers Pieter, Daniel Njiru Mugendi
Low soil fertility is a major constraint to maize production in the small holder farms of Meru South District. This is mainly attributed to the mining of nutrients due to cropping without external addition of adequate nutrients. Mineral fertilizers are expens…
Wilton Pereira da Silva, Cleide Maria Diniz Pereira da Silva e Silva, Fernando José de Almeida Gama, Josivanda Palmeira Gomes
In order to determine the energy needed to artificially dry a product, the latent heat of vaporization of moisture in the product, h fg , must be known. Generally, the expressions for h fg reported in the literature are of the form h fg = h ( T ) f ( M ), whe…
Subramaniam Gandhi Doss, Shyama Prasad Chakraborti, Sukhen Roychowdhuri, Nirvan Kumar Das, Kunjupillai Vijayan, Partha Dev Ghosh, Mala V. Rajan, Syed Mashayak Hussaini Qadri
Genetic improvement of crop plants is brought about by manipulating the genetic makeup through systematic breeding techniques or by employing modern biotechnological tools. Application of systematic breeding technique to a large extent is decided by the knowl…
Michael J. McConnell, Kenneth H. Mathews Jr., Rachel J. Johnson, Keithly Jones
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) propelled the integration of livestock markets among the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Along with vertical integration within the respective industries, different sectors of the cattle and hog industries ha…
Gabriele Di Marco, Lorena Canuti, Stefania Impei, Donatella Leonardi, Antonella Canini
Honey bees and bee products are optimal monitors of the environmental quality; experimental beehives were placed in strategic places of Gran Sasso-Monti della Laga Park. Pollen and honey, produced in this protected area, were analyzed in order to demonstrate…
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