Cooperation Centre for Scientific Research Relative to Tobacco
Centre de Coopération pour les Recherches Scientifiques Relatives au Tabac

During the 1998/1999 tobacco campaign the following study was carried out at the Research institute for Tobacco in the Partido Zone of San Antonio de los Banos, Havana, Cuba. A random block design was used with five treatments and four replications....

This study was concerned with the recovery for agricultural purposes of land presently used to dump cinders from power plants or waste from mines.The researches were conducted in an experimental field set on cinders dumped from the thermoelectric...

Two biologically active products, environment-friendly of vegetal origin, with no harmful effects for man and animals, called VS. and Ecostim in the concentrations of 0.05 g/l and 0.08 g/l for the first product and 0.02 g/l and 0.08 g/l for the...

Virginia tobacco is a relatively new culture for Bulgaria. Usually only 2 or 3 FCV varieties are cultivated under a variety of soil and climatic conditions, which did not permit to develop their potential possibilities for obtaining a typified raw...

Four tobacco varieties (three oriental and one semioriental) and their diallel hybrids from Fl generation were investigated during 1996 and 1997, in order to study the genotype components for inheritance of the characters: height of the stalk with...

Tobacco in an accumulator of heavy metals and this ability tends to differentiate among tobacco types and varieties. The objective of this study was to evaluate the levels of heavy metal concentrations in six varieties of Greek Oriental Aromatic...

A field experiment was performed to recommend suitable fertilization formula in Virginia tobacco farmers fields in Mazandaran in two years (1998-1999). According to the soil analysis and amount of available K (ppm), 9 farms were selected and divided...

Despite dramatic advancements which have been made in the production of flue-cured tobacco leaves in China, there are still a number of unsolved quality problems limiting their universal use in the manufacturing of high standard cigarettes. The...

Black shank, caused by the soilborne pathogen Phytophthora parasitica var. nicotianae , is an important root and crown rot disease of flue-cured and Burley tobacco in North Carolina. The most common race of the pathogen in both tobacco types is...

Bacterial wilt [caused by Ralstonia solanacearum (E.F. Smith) Smith] is a serious disease in many tobacco producing countries. Although numerous resistant varieties have been developed; current sources of resistance offer only partial resistance...