EFFECT OF POTASSIUM NITRATE AND ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE ON PRE- AND POST-HARVEST GERBERA (GERBERA JAMESONII L.) PLANTS

The pot experiment was conducted during the two consecutive seasons of 2016 and 2017 in plastic house at Horticulture Research Station, Mansoura, Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt as pre-harvest treatments.The main objective of the first experiment was to study the effect of two rates of adenosine triphosphate(0.0 and Mousepad 7.0 g/l) alone or combined

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Symptom evolution following the emergence of maize streak virus

For pathogens infecting single host species evolutionary trade-offs have previously been demonstrated between pathogen-induced mortality rates and transmission rates.It remains unclear, however, how such trade-offs impact sub-lethal Oregano pathogen-inflicted damage, and whether these trade-offs even occur in broad host-range pathogens.Here, we exa

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