Research Articles

 

          AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION

 

Ahmad Rezvanfar, Fereshteh Fadakar, Seyyed Mahmoud Hashemi and Zahra Khoshnudifar

     Investigating link between job characteristics and job satisfaction of extension

     workers
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 669- 675

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR09.362

 

 

Oladele Idowu, Olufunke Cofie and Adetola Adeoti

     Gender analysis of land use for urban agriculture and sustainability of livelihoods in

     Freetown, Sierra Leone
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 676- 683

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.1234

 

 

Nina Rejaei, Alireza Jamshidi, Mostafa Teimouri and Kourosh Roosta

     Farmer participation in land consolidation projects in Iran: The case of Shirvan and

     Chardavol City
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 684- 689

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.1143

 

 

 

          PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY

 

Hongchun Qu, David Norman and Zhonghua Lu

     Digital orange tree: An intelligent agent based simulation model
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 690- 710

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.167

 

Liefeng Zhang, Ying Zhang, Qi Rui, Yong Ren and Langlai Xu

     Effects of ATP and Zn²⁺ on degradation of the large subunit of ribulose-1, 5- 

     bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase in wheat leaves
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 711- 720

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.1789

 

 

           AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

 

Fereshteh Ghiasvand Ghiasy and Seyed Jamal F. Hosseini

     Studying the variables that separate entrepreneurial and non-entrepreneurial

     agricultural producer cooperatives (APCs) for predicting group membership
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 721- 725

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.723

 

Chin-Nung Liao, Yan-Kai Fu, Yung-Cheng Chen and I-Liang Chih

     Applying fuzzy-MSGP approach for supplier evaluation and selection in food industry
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 726- 740

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJARX11.088

 

 

 

            FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE

 

H. Raeisi, S. Y. Paighambari, R. Davoodi, M. Bibak, S. A. Hoseini and M. J. Shabni

     Length-weights relationships and relative weights of some demersal fish species

     from the Persian Gulf, Iran
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 741- 746

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.1315

 

 

 

             PLANT BREEDING

 

 L. O. Omoigui, A. Y. Kamara, M. F. Ishiyaku and O. Boukar

     Comparative responses of cowpea breeding lines to Striga and Alectra in the dry

      savanna of northeast Nigeria
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 747- 754

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.1341

 

 

 Nima Dolatabadi, Mahmoud Toorchi, Mohammad-Reza Shakiba, Habib Kazemnia and Setsuko

 Komatsu

     The response and protein pattern of spring rapeseed genotypes to sodium chloride

     stress
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 755- 763

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.1631

 

 Mehrab Yadegari, Ahmad Reza Golparvar and Rahim Barzegar

     Multivariate analysis of quantitative traits in Iranian pumpkin lines (Cucurbita spp.)
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 764- 774

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.1780

 

 

 Sebnem Kusvuran

     Effects of drought and salt stresses on growth, stomatal conductance, leaf water and

     osmotic potentials of melon genotypes (Cucumis melo L.)
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 775- 781

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.1783

 

 Seema Mahmood, Rafia Abid, Ghulam Yasin, Humaira Arif and Ahsan Irshad

     Growth and yield parameters as potential indicators of selection for moisture deficit

     tolerance in some Pakistani wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivars
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 782- 789

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.2047

 

 

 

 

             PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

 

 Fatemeh Shafiee, Ahmad Rezvanfar and Faezeh Hashemi

     Vegetable growers in southern Tehran, Iran: Pesticides types, poisoning symptoms,

     attitudes towards pesticide-specific issues and environmental safety
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 790- 796

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.1458

 

 

 

             AGRONOMY

 

 Azam Partokazemi, Babak Delkhosh, Masood Mohseni and Reza Faghani

     The effects of tillage system and plant density on yield and yield components of corn

     (Zea mays L.) varieties in North of Iran
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 797- 801

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.1539

 

 

 

             SOIL SCIENCE

 

 Salih Aydemir and Halime Sünger (Akıl)

     Growth response and ameliorative effect of a forage plant (Festuca arundinacea) in

     calcareous saline-sodic soils
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 802- 809

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.1582

 

 

             CROP SCIENCE

 

 Siew-Teng Ong, Shiau-Ping Yip, Pei-Sin Keng, Siew-Ling Lee and Yung-Tse Hung

     Papaya (Carica papaya) seed as a low-cost sorbent for zinc removal
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 810- 819

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.1877

 

 Metin DEVECI

     An investigation on plant species diversity in Colchic Province (Turkey)
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 820- 843

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.2189

 

 

 

 

            AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING

 

 Hassankhani R, Navid H and Seyedarabi H

     Potato surface defect detection in machine vision system
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 844- 850

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJAR11.2049

 

 

Xiaoqing Yu, Pute Wu, Wenting Han and Zenglin Zhang

     The research of an advanced wireless sensor networks for agriculture
     [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 851- 858

                 DOI: 10.5897/AJARX11.067