Australian Journal of Crop Science - 6 (5), 2012

Contents:

Adjustments in leaf water relations of wild wheat relative Aegilops geniculata Roth. and wheat (Triticum durum Desf.) plants grown in a salinity gradient

Khaled Mguis, Ali Albouchi, Ayda khadhri, Mejda Abassi, Mbarka Yakoubi-Tej, Asma Mahjoub, Zeineb Ouerghi and Nadia Ben Brahim


Yield and fruit quality of Queen Orange [Citrus sinensis (L) Osb.] grafted on different rootstocks

Alireza Shafieizargar, Yahya Awang, Abdul Shukor Juraimi, Radziah Othman


Analysis of photothermic resource use efficiency and potential increases in crop yields in high-yielding regions of eastern Asia

Yuhong Hou, Guofeng Hou, Hua Qi, Chuanyong Chen, Xiangling Li, Ming Zhao, Shuting Dong


Exquisite protocol of callus induction and protocorm-like bodies (PLBs) regeneration of Dendrobium sonia-28

Tan Ai Mei, Monica Danial, Xavier Rathinam and Sreeramanan Subramaniam


Investigation on the effect of subculture frequency and inoculum size on the artemisinin content in a cell suspension culture of Artemisia annua L.

Lo Kiah Yann, Nadali Babaeian Jelodar and Chan Lai-Keng


Mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) associated with cooking quality in rice (Oryza sativa L.)

Atefeh Sabouri, Babak Rabiei, Mahmoud Toorchi, Saeed Aharizad and Ali Moumeni


Genetic diversity and relationships in wild species of Brassica and allied genera as revealed by cross-transferable genomic STMS marker assays

Binay K. Singh, Ajay K. Thakur, Pramod K. Rai


Research Note


Effects of sucrose and ammonium nitrate on phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase and ribulose-1, 5-bisphosphate carboxylase activities in wheat ears

Y.H. Zhang, S.L. Zhou, Q. Huang, G.H. Leng, Q.W. Xue, B.A. Stewart, Z.M. Wang


Differential response of pea (Pisum sativum L.) genotypes to salt stress in relation to the growth, physiological attributes antioxidant activity and organic solutes

M. A. Shahid, R. M. Balal, M. A. Pervez, T. Abbas, M. Ashfaq, U. Ghazanfar, M. Afzal, A. Rashid, F. Garcia-Sanchez and N. S Mattson


Comparative investigation of single salts stresses and their mixtures on Eragrostioid (Chloris virgata) to demonstrate the relaxation effect of mixed anions

Changyou Li, Xiaoping Wang, Huan Wang, Futai Ni, Decheng Shi


Cd2+ stress induces two waves of H2O2 accumulation associated with ROS-generating system and ROS-scavenging system in cultured tobacco cells

Jin-Fen Wen, Ming-hua Deng, Ming Gong


In vitro antioxidant properties of Rosa roxburghii aqueous extracts

Qi-Sen Xiang, Hai-Fang Xiao, Shi-Bo Gao, Meng-Tang Wen, Guo-Liang Jia, Xiao-Meng Ren, and Xue-Bo Liu


Response of Coker (flue-cured) tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) to inoculation with Azotobacter chroococcum at various levels of nitrogen fertilization

Mohammadali Sabeti Amirhandeh, Alireza Fallah Nosratabad, Slavik Harutyunyan, and Mehdi Norouzi


Effects of sand burial stress on maize (Zea mays L.) growth and physiological responses

Hao Qu, Halin Zhao, Ruilian Zhou, Jin Wang, Jin Li1, Barron J. Orr


Salt and alkaline stress induced transgenerational alteration in DNA methylation of rice (Oryza sativa)

Qizhi Feng, Chunwu Yang, Xiuyun Lin, Jinming Wang, Xiufang Ou, Chunyu Zhang, Yu Chen and Bao Liu


Solute distribution uniformity and fertilizer losses under meandering and standard furrow irrigation methods

Fatemeh Soroush, Behrouz Mostafazadeh-Fard, Sayed-Farhad Mousavi and Fariborz Abbasi


Heavy metal uptake and translocation by Jatropha curcas L. in sawdust sludge contaminated soils

Nik M. Majid, M.M. Islam and Yumarnis Riasmi


Inheritance of morphological traits of the second basal internode in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

J.B. Yao, H.X. Ma, L.J. Ren, X.M.Yang and M.P. Zhou


Transform of an ectopically expressed bulb lectin gene from Pinellia pedatisecta into tobacco plants conferring resistance to aphids (Myzus nicotianae)

Zhi-Ming Wu, Hong-Bo Yan, Wen-Liang Pan, Biao Jiang, Jian-Guang Liu, Bao-jin Geng, Ying-Tao Sun, Yu-Hai Wang, Wen-Qi Dong


Variations in high-molecular-weight glutenin subunits in the main wheat growing zones in China

Jun Ji, Xiaoli Guo, Fa Cui, Dongcheng Liu, Jiazhu Sun, Wei Zhang, Aimin Zhang, Junming Li


Effect of foliar application of chitosan on growth and yield in okra

M.M.A. Mondal, M.A. Malek, A.B. Puteh, M.R. Ismail and M. Ashrafuzzaman


Development of two high yielding mutant varieties of mustard [Brassica juncea (L.) Czern.] through gamma rays irradiation

M.A. Malek, H.A. Begum, M. Begum, M.A. Sattar, M.R. Ismail and M.Y. Rafii


Callus induction and organogenesis capacity from lamina and petiole explants of Anthurium andreanum Linden (Casino and Antadra)

Mojtaba Khorrami Raad, Sahar Bohluli Zanjani, Mahmoud Shoor, Yousef Hamidoghli, Ali Ramezani Sayyad, Ardashir Kharabian-Masouleh and Behzad Kaviani


Investigation of banana slices shrinkage using image processing technique

M.A. Ebrahimi, S.S. Mohtasebi, Sh. Rafiee, S. Hoseinpoor


Above- and below-ground growth of cotton in response to drip irrigation under mulch film

Wenxuan Mai, Changyan Tian and Chunjian Li


ZmPto, a maize Pto-like gene, significantly affects salt resistance in transgenic Arabidopsis

Huawen Zou, Xiaohai Tian, Guohui Ma, Mingmin Zhao, Caili Wang, Zhixin Li


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