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Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53564#.VMiSOizQrzE Author(s)    A. B. Bakry 1* , Hattem M. El-Shabrawi 2 , M. A. Ahmed 1 , Mohamed Abou-El-Lail 3   Affiliation(s) 1 Field Crops Research Department, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt . 2 Plant Biotechnology Department, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt . 3 Genetics Department, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Aswan University, Aswan, Egypt . ABSTRACT Humic and oxalic acids have plant growth promoting effects. We test whether they are able to positively impact wheat yield under newly reclaimed sandy soil, where water deficiency negatively influences yield. Foliar application of humic acid and oxalic acid on two wheat cultivars, Gemiza-9 and Sakha-93, leads to overall better performance of the plants and increases the yield significantly, irrespective of the cultivar genetic background. However, Gemiza-9 surpass...

Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53433#.VMWoOizQrzE Author(s)   Francesco Longobardi , Daniela Sacco , Grazia Casiello , Andrea Ventrella , Antonio Sacco *   Affiliation(s) Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari “A. Moro”,Bari, Italy . ABSTRACT In recent years, food authentication, in terms of geographical and varietal/animal origins, is considered of primary importance at all levels of the production process. Therefore, it is clear that there is an economic basis to develop analytical methods able to certify the declared origin of food products, in order to protect consumers and honest producers from fraud and unfair competition, respectively; consequently, during recent years, several food authentication techniques have been proposed. This review attempted to present in a critical way the contribution of High Resolution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (HR-NMR) and Isoto...

Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53140#.VLXZIMnQrzE Author(s)    Muhammad Sajjad 1* , Sultan Habibullah Khan 2 , Rizwana Maqbool 3   Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Vehari, Pakistan . 2 Center for Agricultural Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan . 3 Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, USA . ABSTRACT The international recognition of the importance of genetic diversity demands continuous estimation of genetic diversity of in hand population as test of its buffering capacity against all putative threats. Randomly selected Pakistani wheat varieties developed during 1965-1999 and 2000-2011 were evaluated on the basis of pedigree and SSR data. At 2nd and 3rd levels of pedigree, average occurrence of a parent per variety was 2.1 times. The...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52756#.VKIPecCAM4 Author(s)    Naoki Yamamoto 1,2 , Toshio Sugimoto 1 , Takehiro Masumura 2,3* Affiliation(s) 1 Plant Nutrition Laboratory, Department of Biological and Environmental Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan . 2 Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University, Kyoto, Japan . 3 Kyoto Prefectural Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, Kyoto, Japan . ABSTRACT Wheat seed storage protein is of great importance for human food. To increase the contents of storage proteins effectivel...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=47504#.VFgzi2fHRK0 Author(s)   Muhammad Adnan , Zahir Shah , Asif Khan , Muzamil shah , Gohar Ali Khan , Azaz Ali , Nisar Ali Khan , Nouman Saleem , Shah Nawaz , Saba Akbar , Sonia Samreen , Kanwal Zaib Affiliation(s) Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan . Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan . Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan . Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan . Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakist...