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Panicum virgatum; cultivars; hemicellulose; agricultural soils; weed control; plant breeding; plant growth; energy crops; cellulose; crop yield; mycorrhizae; biomass; Midwestern United States
Abstract:
... USDA and University of Nebraska research on switchgrass was expanded in 1990 to include development of switchgrass into a biomass fuel crop. Initial research evaluated all available cultivars and elite strains at three Midwestern locations and identified cultivars and strains that had the most potential for use as biofuel crops. The highest yielding strains produced over 14,000 kg/ha biomass per y ...
cultivars; image analysis; classification; hard white wheat; hard red spring wheat; near-infrared spectroscopy; color; winter wheat
Abstract:
... Color class of wheat is an important attribute for the identification of cultivars and the marketing of wheat, but is not always easy to measure in the visible spectral range because of variation in vitreosity and surface structure of the kernels. This work examines whether short-wavelength near infrared (SW-NIR) imaging in the range 632 - 1098 nm can be used to distinguish different cultivars. Th ...
geographical distribution; cultivars; genetic variation; plant morphology; germplasm conservation; Solanum; wild relatives; plant taxonomy; United States; Central America; South America
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... Solanum sect. Petota, the potato and its wild and cultivated relatives, contains 232 species, according to the latest taxonomic interpretation. Seven of these species are cultivated, and the rest are wild. The group is distributed from the southwestern United States to south central Chile, with a concentration of species in the Andes of Peru and Bolivia. There is much morphological and physiologic ...
... Kernel hardness conditioned by puroindoline genes has a profound effect on milling, baking and end-use quality of bread wheat. In this study, 251 current cultivars and advanced lines, 166 historical cultivars, and 219 landraces from China were investigated for their kernel hardness and puroindoline alleles using molecular and biochemical markers. The frequencies of soft, mixed and hard genotypes w ...
... Barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV - previously PAV) and cereal yellow dwarf virus (CYDV - previously RPV) which cause the yellow dwarf (YD) disease are serious pathogens of the small cereal grain crops like barley, wheat, oat, and rye in many cereal-growing areas of the world. Highly effective resistance to yellow dwarf viruses was introgressed into wheat (Triticum aestivum) from Thinopyrum intermed ...