IMPROVING TOMATO SEEDLINGS SURVIVAL DURING HOT SUMMER TRANSPLANTING BY NATURAL AND BIO- ROOT STIMULANT TREATMENTS.

A. A. Glala, S.A. Saleh and A. M. Abd-Alla
Horticultural Crops Technology Dept., National Research Center, Dokky, Giza, Egypt.

USING SEED PRIMING TO IMPROVING DROUGHT TOLERANCE DURING SEED GERMINATION OF AMARANTH CULTIVARS

Amir Moosavi1, Reza Tavakkol Afshari¹*, Farzad Sharif-Zadeh1, Amir Aynehband2
1Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture and Natural Recourses, University of Tehran, Iran.
2Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Chamran, Iran

VEGETABLE GERMPLASM CONSERVATION AND UTILIZATION AT AVRDC – THE WORLD VEGETABLE CENTER

Andreas Wilhelm Ebert*
AVRDC – The World Vegetable Center, P.O. Box 42, Shanhua, Tainan, 74199 Taiwan.

PLANT GROWTH PARAMETERS IN WATERMELON GRAFTED ONTO DIFFERENT BOTTLE GOURDS (Lagenaria siceraria) COLLECTED FROM MEDITERRANEAN REGION OF TURKEY

Halit Yetişir1*, Fatih Karaca1, Mehmet E. Çalışkan2
1 Department of  Horticulture, Faculty of  Agriculture, University of Muatafa Kemal 31120 Hatay-Turkey.
2Department of  Agronomy, Faculty of  Agriculture, University of Muatafa Kemal 31120 Hatay-Turkey

IMPROVING THE AFFINITY OF TOMATO GRAFTED ON Solanum torvum USING AN INTERMEDIATE ROOTSTOCK

Alfredo Miguel1, José-Ignacio Marsal1, Rumy Gotto2, Alberto San Bautista3, Salvador López-Galarza3, José Vicente Maroto3 and Bernardo Pascual3
1Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (IVIA), Moncada, Valencia, Spain
2 Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, Brasil
3Departamento de Producción Vegetal, ETSIA, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain

LOCAL ORGANIC WASTES FOR ORGANIC TRANSPLANT PRODUCTION

Jamal Javanmardi * and Ali Alizade
Department of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.

EFFECT OF PLANTING DATE AND PATTERN ON FRUIT YIELD AND YIELD COMPONENTS OF JARJO MELON

Faramarz Sayyedi*
Seed and Plant Improvement Institute, Golestan Research Centre for Agiculture and Natural Resources, Agriculture Research Station of Gonbad-e qabus, Iran P.O.Box 181.

USE OF BEEKEEPING RESIDUES FOR TOMATO SEEDLING PRODUCTION

Remedios Morales-Corts R., María Ángeles Gómez-Sánchez, M.A., Pérez-Sánchez R.
Área de Producción Vegetal, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias y Ambientales, Universidad de Salamanca, Avda. Filiberto Villalobos Nº 119, 37007 Salamanca, Spain.

ORGANIC LEEK SEED PRODUCTION – SECURING SEED QUALITY

Lise C. Deleuran* and Birte Boelt
Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Aarhus University, 4200 Slagelse, Denmark.

PCR PRIMERS USED IN THE DETECTION OF Acidovorax avenae subsp. citrulli CAUSING BACTERIAL FRUIT BLOTCH (BFB) IN CUCURBITS.

Beung-Gu Son, Yong-Jae Lee, Jum-Soon Kang, Young-Whan Choi, Young-Hoon Park*
1Department of Horticultural Bioscience, Pusan National University, Miryang 627-706, Republic of Korea
2Department of Biotechnology, Sakata Seed America, Inc., Salinas, CA 93907, USA