Soil microorganisms might be assessed for their capabilities of plant growth promotion in order to identify heat tolerant strategies crop production. The planned study was conducted determine the potential promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) mitigating stress effects tomato. Bacillus cereus evaluated activities and 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC-deaminase) (0.76–C0.9 μM/mg protein/h), exopolysaccharide (0.66–C0.91 mg/mL) under normal stressed conditions. Plant regulators were through High...

The yield and quality of field crops are affected by abiotic stresses such as water deficit, which can negatively impact crop growth, productivity, quality. However, nanotechnology holds great promise for increasing yield, maintaining quality, thus mitigating stresses. Therefore, the current study was conducted to examine influences 0, 50, 100 mg L−1 zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles 25, 50 silicon dioxide (SiO2) on traits potato plants grown under deficit conditions (100%, 75%, 50% ETc). Water...

Background Fruit ripening and softening are key traits that have an effect on food supply, fruit nutritional value consequently, human health. Since ethylene induces of climacteric fruit, it is one the main targets to control over leads deterioration. The characterization pathway in Arabidopsis tomato identified genes ripening. Methodology/Principal Findings To engineer melon with improved shelf-life, we conducted a translational research experiment. We set up TILLING platform monoecious...

Water deficit is a major challenge for sustainable global food security, especially, in arid and semi-arid regions. Nanotechnology regarded as an effective tool managing wide range of environmental stresses by providing novel practical solutions. A field experiment was conducted to assess the effects zinc oxide nanoparticles ‘ZnO NPs’ (0, 50, 100 ppm) silicon dioxide ‘SiO2 25, 50 exogenous application on physiological indices, total yield water use efficiency (WUE) potato under conditions...

Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) is a method of increasing crop productivity per unit area cultivated land by extending production into the vertical dimension and enabling year-round production. Light emitting diodes (LED) are frequently used as source light energy in CEA systems commonly limiting factor for under conditions. In current study, impact different spectra was compared with use white LED light. The various were white; supplemented ultraviolet b week before harvest; three...

The use of synthetic antioxidants has been associated with serious concerns for human and environmental health. During ripening stages, tomato fruit is exposed to different abiotic stresses which not only influence its nutritional, mechanical, functional properties at harvest, but also affect the quality shelf life during storage. This study investigated pattern changes in dietary various stages (cv. Red Rose) their impact on storage behavior cold Tomato fruits were harvested mature green,...

A field study was conducted to understand the effectiveness of foliar applications ZnO-NPs (0, 50, 100 mg L−1) and SiO2-NPs 25, 50 on potato plant growth, morphology, nutrient uptake, oxidative stress, antioxidative response under drought conditions (i.e., 100% crop evapotranspiration ETc, 75% 50% ETc). Results revealed that water deficiency significantly hampered growth biomass production stimulated stress in potatoes. However, exogenous application improved attributes such as number...

Solar desalination is a promising sustainable solution to overcome the scarcity of fresh water in deserts arid regions. The productivity solar still depends mainly on its design parameters and meteorological conditions location (longitude latitude angles). Therefore, this study aimed optimize main single-slope for freshwater production climate central region Saudi Arabia (24°4′ N, 32.89° E). Experiments were conducted four identical stills, with same basin surface area air gap distances (d)...

Two field experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of three drip irrigation regimes (G1: 120% crop evapotranspiration (ETc), G2: 100% ETc, and G3: 80% ETc) four nitrogen (N) source treatments (S0: non-fertilized; S1: urea, S2: ammonium nitrate, S3: sulfate on water consumption use, utilization efficiency, chlorophyll, yield tubers quality potato (Solanum tuberosum L.; cv Diamond) under a system during two successive winter seasons (2015/16 2016/17)). Nitrogen fertilization was...

Due to unfavorable environmental conditions, heat stress is one of the significant production restrictions for tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) crop. The crop considered an important vegetable globally and represents a model plant fruit development research. shock factor (HSF) gene family contains plant-specific transcription factors (TFs) that are highly conserved play key role in high-temperature responses. current study was designed determine relative response under three different...

Soil salinity and the scarcity of freshwater resources are two most common environmental constraints that negatively affect plant growth productivity worldwide. The tomato (Solanum lycopersicum Mill.) is moderately sensitive to salinity. identification salinity-responsive genes in control long-term salt tolerance could provide important guidelines for its breeding programs genetic engineering. In this study, a holistic approach RNA sequencing combined with measurements physiological...

Background Cucumber (Cucumis sativus) belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family that includes more than 800 species. The cucumber genome has been recently sequenced and annotated. Transcriptomics sequencing of many plant genomes are providing information on candidate genes potentially related agronomically important traits. To accelerate functional characterization these in we have generated an EMS mutant population can be used as a TILLinG platform for reverse genetics. Principal Findings A 3,331...

Shading the greenhouses is necessary in summer to reduce solar radiation load. This however generates a considerable amount of thermal heat load that needs be removed via cooling systems. study aimed evaluate effect different shading configurations on and greenhouse. Nets at four locations were employed shade roof side-walls polycarbonate, mechanically ventilated The spectral radiative properties all these plastic materials measured short long wave spectrum bands. net radiations air...

The present study reports on the effect of humic and salicylic acids growth, yield, fruit quality three red sweet pepper ( Capsicum annuum ) cultivars: Barbero, Ferrari, Imperio. plants were grown in a greenhouse leaves treated with or at 0, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5 g·L −1 20, 40, 60 days after transplanting. Foliar application significantly increased vegetative cultivars as compared control plants. However, acid treatment proved more effective than treatment. Red all sprayed showed greatest growth;...

Non-destructive methods have been widely recognized for evaluating fruit quality traits of many horticultural crops and food processing industry. Destructive (analytical) test, non-destructive evaluation the were investigated compared 'Red Rose' tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) grown under protected environment. Fresh at five distinctive maturity stages namely; breaker (BK), turning (TG), pink (PK), light-red (LR), red (RD) labeled scanned using handheld near infra-red (NIR) enhanced...

The development of salt-tolerant tomato genotypes is a basic requirement to overcome the challenges production under salinity in field or soil-free farming. Two groups eight introgression lines (ILs) each, were evaluated for tolerance. Group-I and group-II resulted from following crosses respectively: Solanum lycopersicum cv-6203 × habrochaites M82 pennellii. Salt tolerance level was assessed based on germination percentage NaCl (0, 75, 100 mM) vegetative stage using hydroponic growing...

The application of diffusive and reflective polyethylene (PE) films as greenhouse coverings in arid climates presents an opportunity to improve the microclimate achieve consistent light distribution within crop canopy. Nevertheless, there is still a lack understanding regarding properties these covers their impact on growth parameters crops. This study aimed assess different diffusion beam radiation during transmission, microclimatic parameters, cucumbers each greenhouses they covered. In...

Renewable energy (RE) resources such as wind and PV solar power are crucial for transitioning to carbon-free sustainable systems, especially agricultural domestic applications in the desert rural areas. However, implementing RE may lead frequency penetrations, isolated microgrids (µGs). This study proposes an adaptive load control (LFC) technique systems. An integral controller can be tuned online using artificial gorilla troops optimization algorithm (GTO), which is supported a balloon...