Australian Journal of Crop Science - 6 (4), 2012

Contents:


Protective role of glycinebetaine in maize against drought-induced lipid peroxidation by enhancing capacity of antioxidative system

Shakeel Ahmad Anjum, Muhammad Farrukh Saleem, Long-chang Wang, Muhammad Faisal Bilal, Asif Saeed


Influence of drying methods on activation energy, effective moisture diffusion and drying rate of pomegranate arils (Punica Granatum)

Saeid Minaei, Ali Motevali, Gholamhassan Najafi, Seyed Reza Mousavi Seyedi


Investigating energy consumption and quality of rough rice drying process using a grain heat pump dryer

Mehdi Torki Harchegani, Morteza Sadeghi, Mohsen Davazdah Emami and Ahmad Moheb


Effect of water regimes on germination of weed seeds in a Malaysian rice field

Abdul Shukor Juraimi, M.S. Ahmad-Hamdani, A.R. Anuar, M. Azmi, M.P. Anwar, and M. Kamal Uddin


Marker validation in recombinant inbred lines and random varieties of rice for drought tolerance

Sanjay Singh, S.K.Pradhan, A.K.Singh and O.N.Singh


Absorption and accumulation characteristics of nitrogen in different wheat cultivars under irrigated and dryland conditions

SUN Min, GAO Zhi-Qiang, YANG Zhen-Ping, HE Li-Heng


Early assessment of genetic fidelity in sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum) plantlets regenerated through direct organogenesis with RAPD and SSR markers

R.N. Pandey, S.P. Singh, J. Rastogi, M.L. Sharma and R.K. Singh


Classification of genetic variation in garlic (Allium sativum L.) using SSR markers

Man Hyun Jo, In Ki Ham, Kyaw Thu Moe, Soon-Wook Kwon, Fu-Hao Lu, Yong-Jin Park, Woon Seob Kim, Mi Kyoung Won, Tae Il Kim, Eun Mo Lee


Differential response to elevated NaCl by antioxidant enzymes and gene transcripts in two contrasting lettuce genotypes

Hela Mahmoudi, Mouhiba Ben Nasri, Olfa Baâtour, Jun Huang, Imen Tarchoun, Nawel Nasri, Kaddour Rym, Margaret Gruber, Mokhtar Lachaâl, Abdelali Hannoufa and Zeineb Ouerghi


Tolerance for cadmium pollution in a core-collection of the model legume, Medicago truncatula L. at seedling stage

Ghodratollah Saeidi, Martina Rickauer, Laurent Gentzbittel


Molecular cloning and expression of 12-oxophytodienoic acid reductase gene from barley

Saeid Abu-Romman


Molecular and farmer-based comparison of a wild-weed and landrace complex of watermelon in Zimbabwe

Claid Mujaju, Gun Werlemark, Larisa Garkava-Gustavsson, Marinus J. M. Smulders, Hilde Nybom


The effects of irrigation and nitrogen application rates on yield of spring wheat (longfu-920), and water use efficiency and nitrate nitrogen accumulation in soil

Qi Wang, Fengrui Li, Enhe Zhang, Guan Li, Maureen Vance


Development of Sea Island cotton (Gossypium barbadense L.) core collection using genotypic values

Yongjun Mei, Jiaping Zhou, Haiming Xu and Shuijin Zhu


Phenolic content and antioxidant capacity of fruits of plum cv ‘Stanley’ (Prunus domestica L.) as influenced by maturity stage and on-tree ripening

Nemanja Miletic, Branko Popovic, Olga Mitrovic, Miodrag Kandic


Biphasic effect of copper on growth, proline, lipid peroxidation and antioxidant enzyme activities of wheat (Triticum aestivum cv. Hasaawi) at early growing stage

Mohamed M. Azooz, Mona F. Abou-Elhamd, Mohamed A. Al-Fredan


Evaluation of biocontrol potential of Pseudomonas and Bacillus spp. against Fusarium wilt of chickpea

K. Karimi, J. Amini, B. Harighi, B. Bahramnejad


Effects of ear shading on the anthocyanin contents and quality of kernels in various genotypes of maize

Lina Cui, Rongqi Gao, Shuting Dong, Jiwang Zhang, Peng Liu, Haiyan Zhang, Jiajia Meng, Deyang Shi


Effects of calcium on eliminating the negative effects of salinity in pistachio (Pistacia vera L.) seedlings

F. Hojjat Nooghi and V. Mozafari


Genetic diversity and population structure of wild rice, Oryza rufipogon from Northeastern Thailand and Laos

Preecha Prathepha


Regulation of ion homeostasis in rice subjected to salt and alkali stresses

Chunwu Yang, Na Zhao, Chunming Xu, Bao liu and Decheng Shi


Phenotypic and molecular marker distance as a tool for prediction of heterosis and F1 performance in sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) under well-watered and water-stressed conditions

R. Darvishzadeh


Influence of light and salt on the growth of alien invasive tropical weed Ageratum conyzoides

Peng Sun, Nitin Mantri, Michael Möller, Jinbo Shen, Zonggen Shen, Bo Jiang, Cuiqin Chen, Qin Miao, Hongfei Lu


Physiological response of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) to high temperature and moisture stresses

M. Ahmed, F.U. Hassan and M. Asif


Respiratory enzyme activity and regulation of respiration pathway in seashore mallow (Kosteletzkya virginica) seedlings under waterlogging conditions

Jian Zhou, Xueliang Tian, Lifang Qiao, Pei Qin


Development of sequence characterized amplified region (SCAR) marker for identifying drought tolerant sugarcane genotypes

Manoj Kumar Srivastava, Chang-Ning Li and Yang-Rui Li


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