Journals By Industry - Crop Disease

- Fourth Quarter Agriculture Revenue Increased 18% Compared to Fourth Quarter Last Year - - Generates Net Income of $1.6 Million and Adjusted EBITDA of $6.4 Million in Fiscal 2011 - - Fiscal...

Collaboration to expand research and molecular breeding tools for enhancing plant, crop, and livestock production outcomes SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFX), announced today that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding...

Enters into Lease Agreements for an Aggregate 1,000 Acres SANTA PAULA, Calif. -- On January 6, 2012, Limoneira Company (NASDAQ: LMNR), a leading agribusiness with prime agricultural land and operations, real estate and...

The whole point of growing sugar beets is to produce sugar. But once the beets are harvested and stored for processing-usually in huge piles that can weigh thousands of J tons-they slowly start...

Scary, glorious, challenging and excellent are all words that growers, winemakers and extension advisors across North America used to describe the 201 1 winegrape harvest. It was a time of extremes--from extremely cool...

A clearer picture of corn's biochemical responses to insect and fungal attacks is emerging, thanks to new findings by Agricultural Research Service scientists in Gainesville, Florida. On one front, a team led by...

Gene mutation is far more common and more natural than some people may think. Although we tend to think of ourselves as genetically stable entities, the truth is that every one of us...

Will Commercialize New Plant Disease Control Technologies COLUMBIA, Md. -- Certis USA has entered into a global license agreement with Montana State University-Bozeman and Montana BioAgriculture Inc. of Missoula, MT to develop and...

A major problem throughout 2011 was insect pests, effectively replacing disease pressures, Dick Neale, technical manager at Hutchinsons said at a Dalton Seeds event. Pea and bean weevil, and aphids, pushed legal limits...

HEADNOTE Abstract A few years of stigmasterol research brought into light several vital functions of this new group of phytohormone in plant growth and development. New discoveries of the physiological properties of stigmasterol...

HEADNOTE Abstract Significant efforts are required to enable rice plant to cope with the menace of high night temperature (HNT) stress. As an immediate solution, use of plant growth hormones can be targeted...

HEADNOTE Keywords: Resource capture efficiency; multiple crops; intensification; water use efficiency; radiation use efficiency. Abbreviations: DC_double-crops, F_flax, F/S_flax/sequential soybean, LSW_long-season wheat, LSW/S_long-season wheat/sequential soybean, P_pea, PAR_photosynthetically active radiation, P/S_pea/sequential soybean, R_rapeseed, RC_solar radiation...

HEADNOTE Abstract The genetic diversity and relatedness of 90 watermelon (Citrullus lanatus var. lanthus and Citrullus. lanatus var. citroides) accessions were molecularly characterized using 30 sequence-related amplified polymorphism (SRAP) marker combinations. The accessions...

HEADNOTE Abstract Ten turfgrass cultivars (three cultivars of bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon) hybrids, Common bermudagrass, Paspalum, Saint-Augustine, El-Toro (Zoysia japonica), Korean Velvetgrass (Zoysia tenuifolia), SI 2000, and Mahar cultivar were investigated using ISSR fingerprinting...

HEADNOTE Abstract Investigation of the genetic diversity, population structure, and linkage disequilibrium of maize will assist in the selection of parental lines for enhanced efficiency of maize breeding. In the present research, we...

HEADNOTE Abstract Cotton Leaf Curl Disease is among the most devastating natural calamity that inflicted huge losses to cotton crop productivity especially in Pakistan during the last 20 years. The dilemma of CLCuD...

HEADNOTE Abs t rac t Morpho-agronomical characterization was done for 16 kenaf accessions from 4 different geographic origins to assess the variation and genetic relationships according to their origin. To evaluate their genetic...

HEADNOTE Abstract Fusarium wilt is a destructive and widespread disease of chickpea caused by Fusarium oxysporum f.sp ciceris. A total of 40 unrelated genotypes of chickpea were classified into two distinct phenotypic groups...

Wine alcohol levels have certainly climbed. Elfin McCoy's survey of California wine labels indicated a rise from 12.5% in 1971 to 14.8% on average in 2001. Australian Wine Research Institute figures show the...