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{"title":"Comparative Success of Budding and Grafting Citrus sinensis : Effect of Scion’s Number of Buds on Bud Take, Growth and Sturdiness of Seedlings","authors":"Kamanga Rm, E. Chilembwe, K. Chisanga","doi":"10.4172/2376-0354.1000206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2376-0354.1000206","url":null,"abstract":"A greenhouse study was conducted at the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR) in Malawi to determine the effectiveness of budding and grafting of Citrus sinensis. The study aimed at establishing the effect of number of buds on scion wood on bud take and growth of seedlings. A total of 6 treatments were arranged in randomized complete block design with 3 replicates. Treatments were 1-bud budding and grafting with scion having 1-5 buds. Budding and grafting were conducted in June, 2014 and monitored for a period of 120 days. Data were analyzed using GenStat statistical package, 15th edition and R 3.4.1. Results revealed that grafting treatments had significantly higher bud takes on average while budding had the least bud take. Within grafted seedlings, number of buds had no significant effect on bud take and height. Similarly, number of buds did not affect sturdiness quotients of seedlings, of which all were within the recommended range. However, number of buds significantly affected shoot girth, number of leaves and number of branches. A significant linear relationship and positive correlation was found between number of branches and number of leaves. The study recommended that grafting should be adopted as an alternative propagation technique for sweet orange and must use scion wood with 3-4 buds for ideal bud take, growth and sturdiness quotients.","PeriodicalId":15920,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Horticulture","volume":"216 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84241935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Phenotypic Characterization of Tomato (Lycospersicon esculentum)","authors":"P. Marasini, S. Paudel","doi":"10.4172/2376-0354.1000204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2376-0354.1000204","url":null,"abstract":"Tomato is one of the most important fruit vegetable commonly grown in world. Most of the people grow the tomato however they do not know about phenotypic characters of different landraces. Phenotypic characterization of these landraces will be helpful to the farmers to choice better landrace for particular area and practice scientific methods of its cultivation. This experiment was conducted in the field of Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science, Lamjung Campus, Nepal under Randomized Complete Block Design having eight treatments with three replication. The main objective of this study is to characterize the phenotypic appearance of eight varieties which includes Srijana, Acc#8951, C 2422, Collection 333, ACC 6253, ACC 9861, KHG 55 and C 2433. Effect of treatments was found significantly different in the sepal length, petal length, number of fruits per cluster, number fruit cluster per plant, weight of fruit, pH of fruit, pedicle length, first fruiting internode, thickness of pericarp, fruit weight per cluster, fruit yield per plant, number of leaves and non-significant in vine length, number of flower per plant total soluble solid and pedicel length from abscission layer. Among these varieties ACC#8951 has maximum number of fruit per cluster, fruit weight, fruit weight per cluster, fruit yield per plant. Similarly Srijana has maximum number of fruit cluster per plant and ACC 6253 has higher number of leaves.","PeriodicalId":15920,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Horticulture","volume":"91 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73027034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cypselar Anatomy of Two Species of the Tribe Anthemideae, Family Asteraceae","authors":"S. Paul, S. K. Mukherjee","doi":"10.4172/2376-0354.1000203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2376-0354.1000203","url":null,"abstract":"The family Compositae is the largest and most successful among the angiosperms because of its adaptability in wide variety of ecological habitats and the family owes its biological and commercial success to certain morphological, anatomical and physiological characters in their flowers and fruits. The tribe Anthemideae is one of the most primitive tribe of the Asteraceae. The anatomical features of the species have been investigated to establish their potential usefulness in taxonomy. This study is important for showing how the family owes its biological and commercial success to certain morphological, anatomical and physiological characters in their flowers and fruits. The significant anatomical features of cypselas are cypselar shape in T.S., cypselar cuticle, ribs or elevations no., size of the ribs, thickness of cypselar wall (in μm) at ribs and furrow, pericarp thickness (in μm) at ribs and furrow, tissue differentiation of epicarp, epicarpic cell shape, epicarpic cell wall thickness, orientation of epicarpic cell, tissue differentiation of mesocarp, mesocarpic parenchymatous cell, mesocarpic sclerotic braces, mesocarpic vascular bundle, mesocarpic resin cavity, mesocarpic cavity, presence of endocarp, testa thickness (in μm), testal attachment with pericarp, tissue differentiation of testa and layers, cell content of testa, testal cell shape, thick walled cells of testa, crystals and their distribution, testal palisade cells, orientation of testal cells, endosperm in mature cypsela, non–cellular pellicle, nature of mature embryo, resin ducts/secretory ducts in each cotyledon and relative size of the secretory ducts etc., have been examined. These characters of cypselas serve as reliable taxonomic marker in systematic study. Based on these above features, an artificial key is prepared for easy identification.","PeriodicalId":15920,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Horticulture","volume":"47 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84913023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cuttings as an Alternative for Propagation of Tillandsia recurvata: An Epiphytic Species of Ethnobotanic Value","authors":"Diaz Sv, E. Pc, Arango Icp, Zapata Ev, Aparicio Ar, Palacios Af","doi":"10.4172/2376-0354.1000202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2376-0354.1000202","url":null,"abstract":"Tillandsia recurvata has anticancer properties as well as horticultural value. Production through seed germination is non-viable since the species produces low numbers of seeds with low viability, longevity and germination rates. We explored propagation using cuttings and tested different inert substrates and plant growth regulators. In 2008, cuttings were taken from T. recurvata plants and sown in/on three different substrates (red lava rock, gravel and electricity cable) to which growth regulating cytokinins [6-Benzilaminopurine (BAP) and Kinetin (KIN)] were added. The effects of substrate and cytokinin addition were determined in terms of cutting survival and four different relative growth indices (length, weight, number of live leaves and number of new leaves). Cutting weight, number of new leaves and survival did not differ among the different substrate types and plant growth regulators. The cuttings sown on cable presented a higher quantity of live leaves. Cutting length was greater in the control or with addition of KIN; length was also greater when the cuttings were sown in red lava rock. The red lava rock and cable are both substrates with potential for propagation of T. recurvata; however, given the lack of differences found between the control and KIN treatments, addition of these plant growth regulators appears to be unnecessary. We conclude that sowing cuttings in/on inert substrates constitutes an inexpensive and easily implemented technique for propagation of this species.","PeriodicalId":15920,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Horticulture","volume":"AES-5 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84479160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cultivar Evaluation and Yield Performance of Tomato in an Organic Management System","authors":"V. Sidhu, N. Dilip, Wani","doi":"10.4172/2376-0354.1000201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2376-0354.1000201","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents evaluation of organic tomato cultivars on yield performance in local climatic conditions. Field research trials were conducted from April to October in 2015 and 2016 growing seasons at the Tennessee State University organic farm. Differences occurred in number of marketable fruit, fruit weight and total soluble solids. ‘Arbason F1’ (28.67 Mt·ha-1), ‘Gold Nugget’ (26.08 Mt·ha-1), ‘Roma’ (25.65 Mt·ha-1) were the high yielding and ‘Pink Bumblebee’ (2.61 Mt·ha-1), ‘Hillbilly’ (3.10 Mt·ha-1), ‘Cherokee Green’ (5.99 Mt·ha-1) had the lowest marketable yield. ‘Mountain Prince’ (57.68%), ‘Pink Brandywine’ (52.32%) and ‘Black Prince’ (44.74%) had the most culls and ‘Pink Bumblebee’ (1.80%), ‘Rutgers VF’ (4.98%), and ‘Hillbilly’ (5.02%) had the fewest cull fruit. ‘Bing Cheery’ and ‘Cheery Sweetie’ ranked highest in taste among cherry types. All twenty six cultivars did set fruits during the growing seasons in local climatic conditions. Results suggest that ‘German Johnson’ and ‘Pink Brandywine’ (beefsteak type), ‘Gold Nugget’, (cherry type), and ‘Roma’, (plum type) were top performers in higher yields and brix.","PeriodicalId":15920,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Horticulture","volume":"11 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85871504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Vegetative Growth and Flowering Behavior of Cockscomb (Celosia cristata L.) in Response to Sowing Dates","authors":"T. F. Miano, A. R. Baloch, M. Buriro, Asma Miano, T. Miano, M. Farooq","doi":"10.4172/2376-0354.1000200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2376-0354.1000200","url":null,"abstract":"The study was carried out during the year 2015 to investigate vegetative growth and flowering behavior of Cockscomb (Celosia cristata L.) in response to sowing dates. Treatments included three sowing dates (S1=5th March, S2=20th March and S3=4th April) and two varieties (Cockscomb Amigo Red and Cockscomb Amigo Orange). The results revealed significant difference for vegetative and flowering traits of Cockscomb varieties in response to sowing dates. However, non–significant difference was observed among all observed indices within Cockscomb varieties. On the basis of present findings the crop sown on 4th April took minimum days for seed germination (3.41 days) for both varieties of Cockscomb. Cockscomb Amigo Red took 23.22 cm plant height, 25.30 number of leaves per plant, 20.38 days to 1st flower, 3.73 cm flower diameter, 21.59 g of single flower weight and 5.89 days to flower persistence. Likewise the variety Cockscomb Amigo Orange attained 25.42 cm plant height, 21.16 leaves per plant, 35.95 days to 1st flower, 4.28 cm flower diameter, 32.45 g flower weight, 8.05 days to flower persistence. Planting date 4th April with variety Amigo Orange proved better for most of the characteristics then Amigo Red.","PeriodicalId":15920,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Horticulture","volume":"30 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77973306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Review of Taro (Colocasia esculenta) Genetics and Breeding","authors":"Dejene Tadesse Banjaw","doi":"10.4172/2376-0354.1000196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2376-0354.1000196","url":null,"abstract":"Germplasm screening, characterization and genetic improvement activities play great role in production and productivity of crops. Crop genetic evaluation can be conducted by morphological or molecular techniques and the available result has wide application in agriculture. Beside, appropriate breeding methods help to develop desirable plant character for further utilization depending on the identified gaps. Better understanding of crop genetic characteristics and breeding methods are useful in germplasm collection, conservation and utilization particularly in case of root and tuber crops. Different scientific findings on taro genetic characterization and breeding achievements were reviewed in this paper for further understanding and information dissemination. It was characterized largely based on morphological characters and few on molecular techniques and in both presence of variability that can be used in improvement programs was reported. Classical and modern taro breeding approaches utilized resulted in high yielding variety, disease resistant variety and drought resistant cultivar.","PeriodicalId":15920,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Horticulture","volume":"64 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89363085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Strategies for Improvement of Horticultural Crops against Abiotic Stresses","authors":"A. Helaly","doi":"10.4172/2376-0354.1000E107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2376-0354.1000E107","url":null,"abstract":"Environmental stresses such as salinity, water deficiency, high water level, cold weather and low temperature affect plant growth and decrease horticultural crops productivity worldwide. It is important to improve stress tolerance of the crop plant to increase crop yield under stress conditions and reduce the yield gaps by increasing plant crops tolerance to stresses [1]. In some geographical area such as developmental countries facing several problems, because of decrease in food supply resulted from the dissertation and climatic changes of global warming. The global warming was affect plant productivity and their quality worldwide [2]. To ensure the food security for increasing world population, total crop production will need to be significantly increased with less arable land under much severe environmental conditions [3]. Different approaches, including agronomical, physiological and molecular methods have been used to produce plants grow well under environmental condition adverse. The most important strategies of plant crops improvements against stresses include several tools such as classical breeding programs, tissue culture, biofertilizers using mycorrhizae and bacteria, genetic engineering and grafting. The strategy of plant improvement against stresses is summarized as the following.","PeriodicalId":15920,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Horticulture","volume":"12 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86961553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Micro Propagation of cv. Basrai (Banana) Using Growth Hormones","authors":"Summaira Ali, S. Mehmood","doi":"10.4172/2376-0354.1000195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2376-0354.1000195","url":null,"abstract":"The micro propagation response of cv. Basrai (Banana) was studied. The suckers were taken as explants and were cultured on MS with 4, 5, 6 ml of BAP. At the interval of four weeks, removal of black tissues was done. After the cleaning sub culturing was done. At each subculture, data were recorded by counting the number of new shoots produced. Shoot tips of different rhizomes under in vitro condition behaved different. Some cultures give more response while others less and produced less number of shoots. After five sub-culturing from each shoot tip 112 plants were produced, on an average.","PeriodicalId":15920,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Horticulture","volume":"29 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85171693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Scientific Study of Horticulture: A Lucrative Earth in Future","authors":"Srivastava Ak","doi":"10.4172/2376-0354.1000E108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2376-0354.1000E108","url":null,"abstract":"Nature has offered the flowers with the most varied combinations of colour and structure, which is evolutionary conserved feature for pollination via other animals. Not only insects or lower vertebrates, flower also attracts human being too. Such realization is the founding stone for the study stream ‘Horticulture’. In horticulture, people can relate the study with the mesmerized options like art, science, technology, and commercial aspects. Horticulture basically follows the principle of botanical science and in a wide spectrum it covers the care and commercial promotion of fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, herbs, sprouts, mushrooms, algae, flowers, seaweeds, grass and ornamental trees etc. The said all the parts are essentially the subject matter of horticulture. Several protective measures are associated with the scientific study of horticulture, which includes plant conservation, landscape restoration, landscape and garden design, construction, and maintenance, and arboriculture. Growing with urbanization, horticulture practice through space managed approaches are the only options for future production of flowers and other plant based products. Several studies have shown that alteration in climate is going to change the vegetation distribution throughout the globe. Hence research and studies on horticulture and allied subjects are the only hope for a lucrative earth in future. The Journal of Horticulture publishes the latest findings in horticulture and associated fields. The current issue of the Journal of Horticulture presents a few findings which can be incorporated in culture strategies to yield better crops. Conant et al. [1] observed that, the microbial bio stimulant, Mammoth PTM could be seamlessly incorporated into the Cannabis sativa culture, resulting in a 16.5% increase in bud yields. Akram et al. [2] found that, application of 100 kg ha-1 Phosphorus and 120 kg ha-1 Potassium to the chili plants resulted in optimal plant height; increased number of branches, leaves, flowers, and fruits per plant; enhanced fruit length, girth, and weight; enhanced seed weight and Phosphorus percentage. Lungo [3] conducted a study on the origin of grapevines, where grapevine varieties are annotated in history with their names and not by a generic reference notation. Ali and Mehmood [4], performed micro-propagation of Banana in Pakistan. Thanaa et al. [5] investigated the outcomes of foliar application of Moringa oleifera leaf extract in Hollywood plum, and identified it to have positive effects on the plant parameters such as yield and fruit weight.","PeriodicalId":15920,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Horticulture","volume":"215 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85317079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}