Jolinda Mércia de Sá, Marilia Hortência Batista Silva Rodrigues, Camile Dutra Lourenço Gomes, Valéria Fernandes de Oliveira Sousa, Barbara Genilze Figueiredo Lima Santos, Marinês Pereira Bomfim, Francisco Edu de Andrade, Danielle Maria do Nascimento & Ednaldo Barbosa Pereira Junior·Journal of Experimental Agriculture International·2018
Aim: Was aimed at to evaluate the initial growth of the melon plant under saline conditions in different types of substrates. Place of Study: The work was accomplished in the Federal University of Campina Grande in Pombal, Paraíba in Brazil. Methodology: Four proportions of subst...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/43788
Previous reports showed that the abiotic stress related to the pre-transplant plug cell volume during nursery decreases both root and shoot growth at the transplant stage and limit final yield to leafy green vegetables. The cytokinin function has been linked to different abiotic...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/43753
Fernando Antônio Lima Gomes, Railene Hérica Carlos Rocha Araújo, Jackson Silva Nóbrega, Reynaldo Teodoro de Fátima, Márcio Santos da Silva, Adriana Silva Santos, Albert Einstein Mathias de Medeiros Teodósio & Carlos Jardel Andrade Oliveira·Journal of Experimental Agriculture International·2018
Aims: The present study aimed to assess the alleviating effect of silicon in salinity on melon growth. Study Design: The experimental design was in randomised blocks, corresponding to the with four salt levels and three doses of silicon. Place and Duration of Study: The experimen...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/43767
Isaias Vitorino Batista de Almeida, Maílson Monteiro do Rêgo, Fabiane Rabelo da Costa Batista, Elizanilda Ramalho do Rêgo & Riselane de Lucena Alcântara Bruno·Journal of Experimental Agriculture International·2018
This study evaluated the genetic diversity among 70 accessions of Calotropis procera based on agronomic characters. Seeds of C. procera were collected in the Northeast region of Brazil. The experiment was conducted in a greenhouse in Campina Grande, Paraíba State, between January...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/43425
Aim: Beans play a significant role in human diet especially in developing nations like Nigeria which happens to be the largest producer and consumer of beans in the world. To ensure food safety, heavy metal levels need to be monitored on regular basis to control human exposure th...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/35900
Seed selection as a function of their position in the fruit and its biometric characteristics has been widely used in multiplying several plant species, since these factors may be related to their physiological quality. Thus, the objective of this work was to evaluate the effect...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/43375
The study evaluated eight culturing methods for Scutellonema bradys. The media evaluated for culturing the S. bradys were: in vitro yam plantlets (tissue culture), kenaf callus, yam disc inoculated the same day, yam disc inoculated five days after disc preparation, yam disc place...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/43086
Rapid and accurate evaluation of seed lot physiological potential is strongly desirable for the success of quality control programs conducted by seed industry. This study aims to evaluate the efficiency of computer vision through a free software of processing seedling digital ima...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/43464
José Nailson Barros Santos, Robson Luis Silva de Medeiros, Tales Emanuel Duarte Santos, Adamastor Pereira Barros, Ezequias Junior Borges Lopes de Oliveira, Fernando Antônio da Silva Fernande, Maria José Araújo Wanderley & Alex da Silva Barbosa·Journal of Experimental Agriculture International·2018
The objective of this research was to study the diversity and similarity profiles of vegetal species from adult and regenerating arboreal component in ‘submontana’ forest area, evaluating the modulation of the effective numbers of vegetal species on the different stra...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/42854
Biotechnological techniques have been extensively studied to provide practical results for coffee improvement. Among these techniques, the present study deals with the somatic embryogenesis for crop improvement. Aims: To describe and correlate the morphology of Coffea arabica cel...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/43350