Assessment of sustainability is the first step in transition towards a sustainable agricultural system. The eco-efficiency analysis is gaining attention as a criterion defined to examine the economic and environmental sustainability of food systems. Accordingly, the present study evaluated the...

An investigation on collection, identification, distributions and evaluating their economic importance of plant feeding mites done with regular sampling in different regions of Sistan-Baluchestan (southeastern) and Hormozgan (southern) provinces of Iran in 1994-97. Out of 107 plant species examined ...

In most food classifications, nuts are usually included in the fruit and berry group. In this scientific article, the researchers examined the issue of the production of tree nuts in the world as a whole, and in the countries that are the main producers of this type of plant products. This term was ...

Introduction: Low temperature is one of the major abiotic stresses which can cause a significant reduction in olive growth and productivity mainly at late autumn, winter and early spring. Although olive is moderately freezing tolerant, temperatures below a certain threshold -7°C can damage the...

Mycotoxins are toxic metabolites produced by some species of mould genera such as Aspergillus, Penicillium and Fusarium, which invade crops in the field and may grow on foods during storage under favorable conditions of temperature and humidity. They are regularly implicated in toxic syndromes in...

In this review the epidemiology, management and main risks of several emerging bacterial diseases approaching or already present in Europe, their causal organisms and vectors will be highlighted, especially: (a) Citrus huanglongbing (=Citrus greening), caused by the heat-tolerant "Candidatus...

Introduction: Citrus is the main fruit group grown in tropical as well as sub-tropical climate of more than 150 countries in the world. In Iran, the total area under citrus crops is 0.284 M ha with a production of 4.345 M ton and a productivity of 17 ton per ha. Citrus is also one of the most...

Background and Objectives: Water is a main factor in agriculture activities and almost 70 percent of world water resources are consumed in agriculture. Drought consist the most important environmental restriction to plant growth and production. Drought stress is known to change a range of...

The study was aimed to investigate the sustainability of citrus production using the eco-efficiency (EF) index under conventional and optimal conditions in Mazandaran province, Iran. The Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) neural network and Genetic Algorithm (GA) were employed to model and optimize the ...

This research was conducted to identify endophytic bacteria over five-year old citrus trees in the east of Guilan province. A total of 63 endophytic bacteria were isolated from symptomless leaves of Citrus aurantium, Citrus sinensis, Citrus sinensis var. thomson, Citrus unshiu, Citrus limon, ...