Morphological Responses of Accessions to Nutrient Solution Application and Electrical Conductivity.

Growing of ornamental flowering plants represents an important sector of horticulture. × (garden pansy) is used in garden beds and borders due to their colorful blooming, which occurs in early spring and late autumn. Nowadays, breeders focus on applying different nutrient solutions to improve the quality, flowering, and ornamental properties of plants, yet electrical conductivity (EC) level is an important fact to know.

Endosymbiotic Bacterial Diversity of Corn Leaf Aphid, Fitch (Hemiptera: Aphididae) Associated with Maize Management Systems.

In this study, different maize fields cultivated under different management systems were sampled to test corn leaf aphid, , populations in terms of total and endosymbiotic bacterial diversity. Corn leaf aphid natural populations were collected from traditionally managed maize fields grown under high agricultural and natural landscape diversity as well as conventionally treated high-input agricultural fields grown in monoculture and with fertilizers use, hence with low natural landscape diversity. Total bacterial community assessment by DNA sequencing was performed using the Illumina MiSeq platform.

Impact of Foliar Fertilization on Growth, Flowering, and Corms Production of Five Varieties.

Degraded and salt affected soils are appearing more often in cultivated areas. These specific problems could reduce nutrient uptake, which can result in quality and yield loss of the cultivated plants. In order to cope with this pedo-climatic condition growers are applying fertilizers; however, due to inadequate application, soil degradation will continue.