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Cost Estimation Of Wastage Irrigation Water In Arid Public Landscape Areas King Abdullah Park– Dammam, Saudi Arabia, Ali Al-Sulbi Nov 2020

Cost Estimation Of Wastage Irrigation Water In Arid Public Landscape Areas King Abdullah Park– Dammam, Saudi Arabia, Ali Al-Sulbi

Emirates Journal for Engineering Research

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) locates within the territory of tropical deserts where water is one of the most important natural resources. However considerable amount of water has been wasted, on daily bases, in irrigation of public landscaped areas managed by local municipalities. Water wastage related to issues include improper calculation or no calculation of plants water budget; malfunctionality or failure of irrigation system components, tools and equipment; misunderstanding of soil-water and plant relationships; and improper management of irrigation operations. This research aims to estimate the cost of wasted water in association with irrigation of public landscape areas in …


Cloning And Sequencing Of Five Lea2 Genes From Date Palm Cv. Khalas And Functional Characterization To Heat And Salt Stress Tolerance Using Yeast Knockout Mutants, Mughair Abdul Aziz Nov 2020

Cloning And Sequencing Of Five Lea2 Genes From Date Palm Cv. Khalas And Functional Characterization To Heat And Salt Stress Tolerance Using Yeast Knockout Mutants, Mughair Abdul Aziz

Agribusiness Theses

Genomic assets from the plants innate to abiotic stress environments have the prospective to be latent in generating stress tolerant plants. Late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) proteins are decisive phytomolecules, which accumulates mainly in the late stages of seed development and in the vegetative tissues during exogenous stresses as a reaction to stabilize the damaged macromolecules. In spite of substantial research, their mechanism of action to initiate plant tolerance against abiotic stresses remains enigmatic. Here, the study is a preliminary investigation on LEA2 genes from the P. dactylifera cv. khalas, a relatively tolerant plant of arid regions. In this aspect, the …


Hyperspectral Properties Of Date Palm Trees (Phoenix Dactylifera L.), Mohamed Ali Saeed Ahmed Al Abdouli Nov 2020

Hyperspectral Properties Of Date Palm Trees (Phoenix Dactylifera L.), Mohamed Ali Saeed Ahmed Al Abdouli

Theses

The goal of this study is to classify the Date Palm varieties based on hyperspectral signature technology since it is difficult to identify the Date Palm cultivars without fruits. It will also help to obtain the hyperspectral signature for different types of date palm trees. Moreover, it also assists to determine the wavelength fingerprint of each cultivar and to recommend the best classification protocol differentiating among different cultivars based on spectral signature. Utilizing the Hyperspectral imaging technology precisely on the leaves of different Date Palm cultivars, thus facilitating identification of date palm cultivars without the fruits and make the spatial …


Date Palm Wastes As Growth Substrate In Hydroponics To Grow Lettuce (Lactuca Sativa L.), Khawla Mohammed Al Marzooqi Apr 2020

Date Palm Wastes As Growth Substrate In Hydroponics To Grow Lettuce (Lactuca Sativa L.), Khawla Mohammed Al Marzooqi

Aridland Agriculture Theses

Recently, many countries are practicing a variety of modern farming techniques like hydroponics, aquaponics, aeroponics vertical farming etc., to enhance production and quality of the production. Among such techniques, hydroponic system of production is growing plants in an appropriate substrate, which provides both physical and nutrient support with a suitable root environment. Substrate media can be either inorganic or organic. In this study, date palm leaf waste has been used, rock wool slab and cocopeat slab. The main objective of this study is to investigate the feasibility of using palm leaf wastes as a growing substrate extensively in the hydroponics …