Essays on Agriculture and Environment

Edited by Eva Maleviti and Costas Stathopoulos

ISBN: 978-960-6672-99-6, 260 pages

First published in 2011 by ATINER

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Table of Contents

Preface

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1.

Essays on Agriculture and Environment: An Introduction

Eva Maleviti and Costas Stathopoulos

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Part A: Crops and Soil

2.

Application of Remote Sensing Data for Vegetation Cover Assessment in Summer Rangeland of Mazandaran Province of Iran

Hosein Arzani,  Soheila Noori,  Seyed Hasa Kaboli,Mehdi Farahpour and Hasan Ghelichnia

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3.

Effects of Different Manure Levels on some Morphological Characters of Sweet Corn (CV Chase) in Miyaneh Region

Ali Faramarzi, Shermin Aram, Mohammad Bagher Khorshidi,Manoochehr Farboodi and Mehrdad Yarnia

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4.

Phosphoglucose Isomerase (PGI) as a Marker of Interspecific Differences in Grasses (Poaceae)

Maria Krzakowa

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5.

Molecular Farming: The Production of Vaccines in Plants

Andreas Lössl, Syed W. Hassan, Tahir M. Waheed, Mona NajafianRazavi and Elke Lössl

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6.

Development of In Vitro Protocols for Plant Atlantic, a Plant Development Program for the Atlantic Nursery Trade in Canada 

Kris Pruski

45

7.

Characterization of Fungal Species Contamination in Silages in Portugal

Inês Martins de Almeida, Hermínia Marina Martins,Maria Manuela M. Guerra and Fernando Manuel d’Almeida Bernando

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8.

The Most Suitable Irrigation Scheduling by Pan Evaporation for Tomatoes Grown in Van Region

Cenk Küçükyumuk and Ahmet Ertek

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9.

Genetic Analysis on the Main Agronomic Traits of Overwintering Rice

Zheng-Wu Zhao, Shi-Gui Li, Long-Zhi Han, An-Cai Luo and Xiaoying Jiang

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10.

Effect of Soil Moisture on Crack Characteristics of Swelling Soils

Behrouz Mostafazadeh-Fard, Fatemeh Jafari, Sayed-Farhad Mousavi and Mohammad-Reza Yazdani

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11.

Phosphorus Inflow to Mycorrhizal and Non-mycorrhizal Plants of Trifolium Alexandrinum as affected by Soil Compaction

Habibollah Nadian Ghomsheh and Siroos Jafari

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Part B: Food

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Quantification and Comparison of Sugars, Carboxylic Acids and Vitamin C Components of Various Citrus Speces by HPLC Techniques

Ebru Kafkas, Sefa Polatöz and N.Kemal Koç

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13.

Occurrence and Analysis of Selected Non-metals in Food and Agricultural Products (B, Si, Ge, P, S, I; As, Se)

Manfred Sager

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14.

Study Quantitative Traits in Potatoes Using Comprehensive Approaches

Gefu Wang-Pruski

129

15.

New Phenolic Compounds with Antioxidant Activity and Potential Health Benefits isolated from Wheat Germ

Sergey Zhokhov, Jelena Jastrebova, Lennart Kenne and Anders Broberg

137

16.

Yield Performance of Some Alfalfa Genotypes under Erzurum Ecological Condition in Turkey

M. Kerim Güllap, H. İbrahim Erkovan, Mahmut Daşci and Ali Koç

147

17.

Development and Mechanisation of a New Growing System for Apple

Zoltán Láng

153

18.

Social and Cultural Organization of the People Riverside in Amazonia Brasilian Protect Areas

Maria do Perpétuo Socorro Rodrigues Chaves, Talita de Melo Lira, Adriana Pereira Castilho and Caroline Nascimento Araújo

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Part C: Environment, Climate Change and Policy Issues

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Analysis of Competition Power of Iranian Almond Export

Jafar Azizi 

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20.

Usage Possibilities of AMS Davis Vantage Pro2 and MIS2007 Software Program against the Most Important Fruit Orchards Pests in the Western Part of the Slovak Republic

Jan Mezey

185

21.

Spatial Analysis (GIS) of Codling Moth (Cydia Pomonella) Potential Infection Pressure as Influence by Changing Climate in Conditions of Slovak Republic

Ivana Mezeyová, Bernard Šiška and Jan Mezey

203

22.

Bioclimatic Study of Korça - Ecozone, Albania

Hysen Mankolli, Mirela Lika (Cekani), Memedije Hoxhalli (Mankolli), Uran Abazi and Agim Asllan

211

23.

Ecologically Sound Production of Sweet Corn and Cucumber in Rotation with Ryegrass and Crimson Clover

Muchha Reddy, Ramesh Ravella and Carl Crozier

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24.

Agro Tourism Knowledge Level of Tourism Students

Fügen Durlu-Özkaya, Menekse Cömert and Suha Sark

235

25.

An Overview of Status of Rural Women in Turkey

Sevgi Rad, Sefa Polatöz and Garip Yarşi

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