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Combined Impact of Irrigation, Potassium Fertilizer, and Thinning Treatments on Yield, Skin Separation, and Physicochemical Properties of Date Palm Fruits

Plants, 2023
Orchard cultural practices, i.e., irrigation, fertilizer, and fruit thinning, are crucially encompassed to enhance fruit yield and quality. Appropriate irrigation and fertilizer inputs improve plant growth and fruit quality, but their overuse leads to ...
Hesham S. Ghazzawy, Nashi Alqahtani, Muhammad Munir, Naser S. Alghanim, Maged Mohammed   +4 more
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Common and novel metabolic pathways related ESTs were upregulated in three date palm cultivars to ameliorate drought stress

Scientific Reports, 2022
Date palm is an important staple crop in Saudi Arabia, and about 400 different date palm cultivars grown here, only 50–60 of them are used commercially.
Mohammed Refdan Alhajhoj, Muhammad Munir, Balakrishnan Sudhakar, Hassan Muzzamil Ali-Dinar, Zafar Iqbal   +4 more
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Development and Evaluation of an Ultrasonic Humidifier to Control Humidity in a Cold Storage Room for Postharvest Quality Management of Dates

Foods, 2021
Dates are subjected to postharvest losses in quality and quantity caused by water loss, fermentation, insect infestation, and microbial spoilage during storage.
Maged Mohammed, Nashi Alqahtani, Hamadttu El-Shafie   +2 more
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Design and Validation of Computerized Flight-Testing Systems with Controlled Atmosphere for Studying Flight Behavior of Red Palm Weevil, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier)

Sensors, 2021
Understanding the flight characteristics of insect pests is essential for designing effective strategies and programs for their management. In this study, we designed, constructed, and validated the performance of modern flight-testing systems (flight ...
Maged Mohammed, Hamadttu El-Shafie, Nashi Alqahtani   +2 more
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Design and Evaluation of a Smart Ex Vitro Acclimatization System for Tissue Culture Plantlets

Agronomy, 2022
One of the technological advancements in agricultural production is the tissue culture propagation technique, commonly used for mass multiplication and disease-free plants.
Maged Mohammed, Muhammad Munir, Hesham S. Ghazzawy   +2 more
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Development and Validation of Innovative Machine Learning Models for Predicting Date Palm Mite Infestation on Fruits

Agronomy, 2023
The date palm mite (DPM), Oligonychus afrasiaticus (McGregor), is a key pest of unripe date fruits. The detection of this mite depends largely on the visual observations of the webs it produces on the green fruits.
Maged Mohammed, Hamadttu El-Shafie, Muhammad Munir   +2 more
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Drought-Tolerance Screening of Date Palm Cultivars under Water Stress Conditions in Arid Regions

Agronomy, 2023
Drought stress poses a considerable challenge to agriculture sustainability in arid regions. Water scarcity severely affects date palm growth and productivity in these regions.
Hassan Ali-Dinar, Muhammad Munir, Maged Mohammed   +2 more
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Effects of Pollination Interventions, Plant Age and Source on Hormonal Patterns and Fruit Set of Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.)

Horticulturae, 2021
Date palm is widely propagated through conventional offshoots. It is also produced through a tissue culture technique due to the limited number of offshoots produced throughout the course of a palm’s life.
Hassan Ali-Dinar, Maged Mohammed, Muhammad Munir   +2 more
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Design and Validation of Automated Sensor-Based Artificial Ripening System Combined with Ultrasound Pretreatment for Date Fruits

Agronomy, 2022
Climate change affects fruit crops’ growth and development by delaying fruit ripening, reducing color development, and lowering fruit quality and yield.
Maged Mohammed, Nashi K. Alqahtani
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Impact of a Novel Water-Saving Subsurface Irrigation System on Water Productivity, Photosynthetic Characteristics, Yield, and Fruit Quality of Date Palm under Arid Conditions

Agronomy, 2020
Water scarcity is a major constraint in arid and semi-arid regions. Crops that require less irrigation water and those, which are considered drought-tolerant such as date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.), are dominant in these regions. Despite the tolerance
Maged Elsayed Ahmed Mohammed, Mohammed Refdan Alhajhoj, Hassan Muzzamil Ali-Dinar, Muhammad Munir   +3 more
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