Volume 7 Issue 5 | April 2013 issue
Table of Contents
7(5) 2013
Southern Cross Publishing Group©2013
Australia
Effects of common lambsquarters (Chenopodium album L.) emergence time and density on growth and competition of maize (Zea mays L.)
Vahid Sarabi*, Mehdi Nassiri Mahallati, Ahmad Nezami, Mohammad Hasan Rashed Mohassel
Pages 532-537 | Full Text PDF
High-affinity potassium uptake in seedlings of two citrus rootstocks Carrizo citrange (Citrus sinensis [L.] Osb. × Poncirus trifoliata [L.] Raf.) and Cleopatra mandarin (Citrus reshni Hort. ex Tanaka)
F. Caballero, F. García-Sánchez*, V. Gimeno, J. P. Syvertsen, V. Martínez and F. Rubio
Pages 538-542 | Full Text PDF
Efficacy of sowing date adjustment as a management strategy to cope with rice (Oryza sativa L.) seed quality deterioration due to elevated temperature
Liyang Zhu, Farooq Shah, Lixiao Nie, Kehui Cui, Tariq Shah, Wei Wu, Yutio Chen, Chang Chen, Kai Wang, Qiang Wang, Yun Lian and Jianliang Huang*
Pages 543-549 | Full Text PDF
Genetic analysis of durable adult plant stripe rust resistance in durum wheat cultivars
B. Singh, U. K. Bansal, R. A. Hare and H. S. Bariana*
Pages 550-554 | Full Text PDF
Exogenous benzoic acid (BZA) treatment can induce drought tolerance in soybean plants by improving gas-exchange and chlorophyll contents
Shakeel Ahmad Anjum, Ehsanullah, Lanlan Xue, Longchang Wang*, Muhammad Farrukh Saleem, Cheng-jian Huang
Pages 555-560 | Full Text PDF
Genotypic characterization of elite Indian wheat genotypes using molecular markers and their pedigree analysis
Rekha Malik, Ratan Tiwari*, Apoorva Arora, Pardeep Kumar, Sonia Sheoran, Pradeep Sharma, Rajender Singh, Vinod Tiwari and Indu Sharma
Pages 561-567 | Full Text PDF | Supplementary data
Effects of calcium treatment applied around the root zone on nutrient concentrations and morphological traits of papaya seedlings (Carica papaya L. cv. Eksotika II)
Babak Madani, Mahmud Tengku Muda Mohamed*, Yahya Awang, Jugah Kadir, Villas D. Patil
Pages 568-572 | Full Text PDF
Induction of fine roots in Leucaena leucocephala using Agrobacterium rhizogenes
Mohammed Saifuddin, Divya Mariam Chandy, Normaniza Osman, Norzulaani Binti Khalid
Pages 573-579 | Full Text PDF
Grain quality traits in triticale influenced by field salinity stress
Maryam Salehi, Ahmad Arzani*
Pages 580-587 | Full Text PDF
Comparative proteomic analysis of rice stripe virus (RSV)-resistant and -susceptible rice cultivars
Yanhua Yang, Li Dai, Hengchuan Xia, Keming Zhu, Xiaoyong Liu, Keping Chen*
Pages 588-593 | Full Text PDF | Supplementary data
Alteration in chlorophyll fluorescence, lipid peroxidation and antioxidant enzymes activities in hybrid ramie (Boehmeria nivea L.) under drought stress
Chengjian Huang, Siyi Zhao, Longchang Wang*, Shakeel Ahmad Anjum, Man Chen, Hangfei Zhou, Congming Zou
Pages 594-599 | Full Text PDF
Yield gap analysis of super hybrid rice between two subtropical environments
Min Huang, Ligeng Jiang, Bing Xia, Yingbin Zou*, Peng Jiang and Hejun Ao
Pages 600-608 | Full Text PDF
Evaluation of grain yield and some agronomic characters in durum wheat (Triticum turgidum L.) under rainfed conditions
Leila Zarei*, Kianoosh Cheghamirza, Ezatollah Farshadfar
Pages 609-617 | Full Text PDF
Effect of NH4+/NO3- ratios on the growth and bolting stem glucosinolate content of Chinese kale (Brassica alboglabra L.H. Bailey)
Gui-xiao La*, Tie-gang Yang, Ping Fang, Hong-xia Guo, Xi Hao, Shu-mei Huang
Pages 618-624 | Full Text PDF
Potential antioxidant activities of methanolic extracts of Spider lily (Hymenocallis littoralis)
Jeevandran Sundarasekar, Geethaa Sahgal, Safiah Ahmad Mubbarakh, Sreeramanan Subramaniam*
Pages 625-631 | Full Text PDF
Yield and yield components in autotetraploid and diploid rice genotypes (indica and japonica) sown in early and late seasons
Muhammad Qasim Shahid, Ya-Juan Li, Muhammad Farrukh Saleem, Muhammad Naeem, Chang-Min Wei, Xiang-Dong Liu*
Pages 632-641 | Full Text PDF
A study on the use of low cost substrata against agar for non-symbiotic seed culture of Cymbidium iridioides D. Don
Chitta Ranjan Deb* and Aolemla Pongener
Pages 642-649 | Full Text PDF
Characterization of rice (Oryza sativa) evapotranspiration using micro paddy lysimeter and class “A” pan in tropical environments
Abubakar Sadiq Abdullahi*, Mohammad Amin Mohammad Soom, Desa Ahmad and Abdul Rashid Mohamed Shariff
Pages 650-658 | Full Text PDF
cDNA-SCoT: A novel rapid method for analysis of gene differential expression in sugarcane and other plants
Jian-Ming Wu, Yang-Rui Li*, Li-Tao Yang*, Feng-Xue Fang, Huan-zhong Song, Hong-Qin Tang, Miao Wang, Meng-Ling Weng
Pages 659-664 | Full Text PDF
Critical period of weed control in aerobic rice system
Jaya Suria Arul Sebastain Micheal, Abdul Shukor Juraimi, Ahmad Selamat, Azmi Man, Md. Parvez Anwar and Md Kamal Uddin
Pages 665-673 | Full Text PDF
Response of soil microbial biomass and enzymes activity to cadmium (Cd) toxicity under different soil textures and incubation times
Waseem Hassan*, Muhammad Akmal, Ibrahim Muhammad, Muhammad Younas, Kashif Rafiq Zahaid, Farhan Ali*
Pages 674-680 | Full Text PDF
Accumulation patterns of phenylpropanoids and enzymes in East Indian sandalwood tree undergoing developmental progression in vitro
Biswapriya B. Misra*, Satyahari Dey
Pages 681-690 | Full Text PDF
Effect of adenine, sucrose and plant growth regulators on the indirect organogenesis and on in vitro flowering in Begonia x hiemalis Fotsch.
Asmah Awal, Abdul Bakrudeen Ali Ahmed*, Rosna Mat Taha, Jamilah Syafawati Yaacob and Sadegh Mohajer
Pages 691-698 | Full Text PDF
Development of an expert system based on wavelet transform and artificial neural networks for the ripe tomato harvesting robot
Arman Arefi* and Asad Modarres Motlagh
Pages 699-705 | Full Text PDF
Nitrogen changes in the leaves and accumulation of some minerals in the seeds of red, white and Chitti beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) under water deficit conditions
Ali Akbar Ghanbari, Mohammad Reza Shakiba*, Mahmood Toorchi, Rajab Choukan
Pages 706-712 | Full Text PDF
Effect of phosphite supply in nutrient solution on yield, phosphorus nutrition and enzymatic behavior in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) plants
Fabricio William Ávila, Valdemar Faquin, Allan Klynger da Silva Lobato, Patrícia Andressa Ávila, Douglas José Marques, Elaine Maria Silva Guedes, Daniel Kean Yuen Tan
Pages 713-722 | Full Text PDF