This article describes the importance of sugar cane in the agricultural policy of the Dominican Republic. The text describes the history of sugar cane growing and its importance for the Dominican economy, especially with regard to the developments after 2000. In the past, the Dominican Republic was ...

CBCVd was until recently mainly reported in citrus growing areas and its known natural hosts were restricted to the various species and interspecies of the Citrus genus. The pathogen has been confirmed in the last decade in the hop growing areas of the Savinja Valley in Slovenia and in Bavaria,...

Olive (Olea europaea L.) is a natural host of Olive latent virus 1 (OLV-1) that was also found in citrus trees, tulips and tomatoes. OLV-1 was detected by next-generation sequencing (NGS) also in strawberry plants, and therefore a new real-time PCR system has been developed for its routine...

Growing urban populations started to pay more attention to non-production services of forests in developed countries. Thus foresters are faced a task to balance different views of urban forests use. These can be for instance (1) gaining profit from wood production, and (2) provision of place for...

The chemical constituents (essential oils) that give different hop cultivars their particular sensory characteristics (fruity, floral, citrus, herby and spicy) are defined and used to describe the aromas of cultivars Žatecký Poloraný Červeňák, Saaz Late, Harmonie, Rubin, Premiant, Vital and Kazbek. ...

The aim of this work was to develop suitable methods for sterilization of initial explants and in vitro cultivation of apple rose. Mercuric chloride (0.15%) and sodium hypochlorite (0.5%) were tested as sterilization solutions. Six proliferation MS media containing 1, 2 and 4 mg.l^-1 BAP...

Suitable conditions for modern (air-conditioned) storage of cv. Osvalds Clone 72 were investigated. The critical temperature (freezing point) of the rooted cuttings [bedded sets] ranged from -0.8 to -2.6°C. Respiration rate and the associated heat release increased appreciably at 6° and were marked ...

Centaurea phrygia subsp. phrygia, Citrullus lanatus, Duchesnea indica, Polystichum × luerssenii, Lobelia erinus, Melilotus altissimus, Populus × canescens have been found or reported as a new for South Bohemia. New localities of rare native or alien species of the South Bohemian flora - Carthamus...

The cantaloupe cultivars Oranž, Solar, Solatur and Sohy (control), field-grown under polethylene, were cropped through Aug.-Sep. in 1988-90 and were analysed at intervals for contents of volatiles, sugars and ascorbic acid. The results were compared with sensory evaluations. Sohy had the best fruit ...

For isolation and content determination of essential oils in 6 spice plants a continuous distillation and extraction method was used with subsequent analysis by gas chromatography. Tests with basil (Ocimum gratissimum), fennel (Foeniculum vulgare_), clove (Syzygium aromaticum), nutmeg (Myristica...