The brown planthopper (BPH)(Nilaparvata lugens) is one of the insect pests significantly damage the rice production in China. Transgenic crops, carrying Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) genes, is widely utilized in the control of agricultural insect pests, including lepidopteran and coleopteran....
Author(s)
Lin Li; Shao EnSi; Chen XueLin; Zhang Jiao; Huang TianPei; Guan Xiong
Publisher
Journal of Agricultural Biotechnology, Beijing, China
Citation
Journal of Agricultural Biotechnology, 2018, 26, 5, pp 839-848
Small-scale farmers in the banana-coffee agro-zone of Central Uganda plant and maintain trees to provide a range of benefits. However, the impact of trees on soil fertility and crop yields is small. On many farms, trees exist in infinite numbers, compositions, with no proper spacing, sequencing and ...
Author(s)
Ssebulime, G.; Nyombi, K.; Kagezi, G. H.; Mpiira, S.; Byabagambi, S.; Tushemereirwe, W. K.; Kubiriba, J.; Karamura, E. B.; Staver, C.
Publisher
Rural Outreach Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
Citation
African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development, 2018, 18, 1, pp 13154-13170
The paper deals with issues related to the regulation of the growing space of trees by thinning in poplar plantations of clone I-214, established on the best habitat with a planting distance of 5×5 m, i.e. 400 trees per hectare, aged 11 years. On nine permanent experimental plots, which were formed ...
Author(s)
Siniša, A.; Martin, B.
Publisher
Šumarski Fakultet u Beogradu (Faculty of Forestry, University of Belgrade), Belgrade, Serbia
Citation
Glasnik Šumarskog Fakulteta, Univerzitet u Beogradu, 2018, No.117, pp 9-25 (Sr), 26-44 (En)
Productivity of a mechanized P. patula cut-to-length harvesting operation was estimated and modelled using two methods of data collection: manual time study and follow-up study using StanForD stem files. The objective of the study was to compare the productivity models derived using these two...
Author(s)
Brewer, J.; Talbot, B.; Belbo, H.; Ackerman, P.; Ackerman, S.
Publisher
Forest Research and Management Institute (ICAS), Ilfov, Romania
Citation
Annals of Forest Research, 2018, 61, 1, pp 109-124
The effects of soil drought on transpiration are often neglected when predicting transpiration for forests in humid regions under the influence of the Asian monsoon. These effects have indeed been neglected for Japanese cypress, Chamaecyparis obtusa, a major plantation species in Japan and the...
Author(s)
Tsuruta, K.; Kume, T.; Komatsu, H.; Otsuki, K.
Publisher
Forest Research and Management Institute (ICAS), Ilfov, Romania
Citation
Annals of Forest Research, 2018, 61, 1, pp 5-18
Phenological study of Acacia mangium has done at Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur (CG). Two different sites Viz; (i) Experimental field of department of Forestry at Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur (C.G.) and (ii) Energy Park VIP road Raipur having different soil management...
Author(s)
Gunjan Patil; Naugraiy, M. N.
Publisher
Dr R.S. Yadav, Etawah, India
Citation
Plant Archives, 2018, 18, 1, pp 1151-1154
Studies on forest vegetation pertaining to diversity, natural regeneration status of plant communities. The present investigation was conducted in Dandachali forest of Tehri Forest Division, North-Western part of Himalaya. Surveys and sampling of the vegetation were done using standard ecological...
Author(s)
Pankaj Lal; Butola, J. S.; Khanduri, V. P.
Publisher
Dr R.S. Yadav, Etawah, India
Citation
Plant Archives, 2018, 18, 1, pp 885-892
An experiment was conducted to study the effect of soaking time and chemicals on germination and growth of tamarind (Tamarindus indica L.) at Regional Horticultural Research Station, ASPEE College of Horticulture & Forestry, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari during the year 2016. The...
Author(s)
Manoli Patel; Tank, R. V.; Bhanderi, D. R.; Patil, H. M.; Vrutti Patel; Maitri Desai
Publisher
Dr R.S. Yadav, Etawah, India
Citation
Plant Archives, 2018, 18, 1, pp 51-56
The aim of this study was to assess the influence of some operational variables on the forwarder productivity and production cost in thinned Pinus taeda L. stands by means of mathematical modeling. This study was carried out in a forest company located at Quedas do Iguaçu, state of Paraná, Brazil....
Author(s)
Rodrigues, C. K.; Lopes, E. da S.; Figueiredo Filho, A.; Silva, M. K. C. da
Publisher
Fundação de Pesquisas Florestais do Paraná (FUPEF), Curitiba, Brazil
Citation
Floresta, 2018, 48, 2, pp 285-292
Author(s)
Nikhil Chakma; Sarker, N. J.; Belmain, S. R.
Publisher
Julius Kühn Institut, Bundesforschungsinstitut für Kulturpflanzen, Quedlinburg, Germany
Citation
Julius-Kühn-Archiv, 2018, No.459, pp 228