Among soilless cultivation systems, those based on the use of artificial substrates are the most commonly adopted. The environmental and economical consequences related to their …
Due to high root density and the relative confinement of the growing medium in soilless culture, rhizosphere oxygen levels drop at an accelerated rate. Conditions may arise that disturb …
Field-grown strawberry (Fragaria× annanasa Duch. cv. Chandler) plants were subjected to two irrigation regimes from Nov. 1989 to July 1990 to evaluate the physiological and …
Graded perlites are being increasingly used in Spain for vegetable production. Perlite is almost inert, has a low bulk density, and it is easily mixed to obtain specific physical properties …
The composition of root-zone solution of container grown Viburnum tinus L. ‘Eve Price’, Nerium oleander L. ‘Émile Shaut’ and Euonymus japonicus Thunb. were studied in two different …
The objective of this study was to assess the frequency of pollen-mediated gene flow from a transgenic rice line, harbouring the gusA and the bar genes encoding respectively, β-…
Materials and methods One-year-old seedlings of Pinus pinea were subjected to drought stress in a greenhouse (Savé et al., 1985). Seedlings were planted in plastic bags (8 cm in …
Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ba endotoxin, which was shown to exhibit a tenfold lower lethal concentration 50 (LC50) than Cry1Ac in a Striped Stem Borer (SSB) diet incorporation assay. …
Transplanting causes stress to plants, especially at low ambient temperatures. The application of enzymatic hydrolysates obtained from animal haemoglobin (PHH), specifically porcine …
The effect of several β-lactam antibiotics on shoot regeneration, growth and rooting of carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus L.), and their use in combination with kanamycin in …