March 2012

Application of principal component analysis for rice germplasm characterization and evaluation

  This study gave empirical evidence on sixteen agro-morphological data that were collected from one hundred and twenty three rice germplasm comprising of Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima lines including checks. The data was collected from thirteen villages in two States in Nigeria and were characterized using ANOVA model. Among the studied traits, high coefficients of variation were...

Author(s): Maji A. T. and Shaibu A. A.

March 2012

Screening of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) genotypes at different salinity levels

The experiment was conducted at 10 and 15 dS/m along with control condition. The accessions namely; PB-BL-1076, BL-1079, LO-2576, 017902, LO-3686, 017859, 017860 and 017867 were used. Different morphological and physiological characters such as number of flowers, number of flowers shed, number of fruits, number of leaves/plant, number of days for fruit setting, Na+ concentration, K+ concentration and...

Author(s): Shameem Raja, Sajid Shokat, Faqir Muhhammad Azhar, Muhammad Tehseen Azhar and Asif Ali Khan