Víctor A. González-Hernández

TL;DR: It is found that intercropping with marigold induced a significant reduction in tomato early blight caused by A. solani, by means of three different mechanisms, including the allelopathic effect of marigolds on A.solani conidia germination, as it was shown in vitro conditions and the microclimatic conditions around the canopy.

TL;DR: A close and direct relationship was found between seed deterioration and DNA metabolism in all maize materials which responded to ageing according to their genetic constitution; i.e., vigorous genotypes suffered less severe damage or recovery was faster than in the low-vigour genotypes.

TL;DR: Virus accumulation in the inoculated leaves of all plants was higher at the lower temperature and long distance movement in tobacco, leading to virion accumulation in other plant organs, was favoured by high temperature; but there was relatively little effect in P. ixocarpa and D. stramonium.

TL;DR: Two maize genotypes of contrasting seed vigour were used to study the effect of artificial seed deterioration on physiological and metabolic processes, and seed respiration rate cannot be regarded as a limiting factor for the early germinative events of maize seeds.

TL;DR: To determine the stage of development most susceptible to water deficiency, in terms of grain yield components, eight plants of two sorghum lines were subjected to each of 10 single, successive drought stress treatments covering the entire life cycle.