INFLUENCE OF POTASSIUM, SUGAR ALCOHOL, AND BORON ON GROWTH AND CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF MELONS UNDER PROTECTED CULTIVATION

INFLUENCE OF POTASSIUM, SUGAR ALCOHOL, AND BORON ON GROWTH AND CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF MELONS UNDER PROTECTED CULTIVATION

An experiment was conducted in Polytunnel house at Longitude 43.30, latitude 33.410 the Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture, University of Anbar, during the spring season of 2023.The experiment was designed to investigate the effects of spraying with potassium, a combination of alcohol sugar (sorbitol), and boron on the vegetative tr

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Plant volatile eliciting FACs in lepidopteran caterpillars, fruit flies and crickets: a convergent evolution or phylogenetic inheritance?

Fatty jerome brown jersey acid amino acid conjugates (FACs), first identified in lepidopteran caterpillar spit as elicitors of plant volatile emission, also have been reported as major components in gut tracts of Drosophila melanogaster and cricket Teleogryllus taiwanemma.The profile of FAC analogs in these two insects was similar to that of tobacc

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