mehrshad Barary; sajad kordi; Lotf Ali Gerami; Ali Hatami; Ali Ashraf Mehrabi; Fardin Ghanbari
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In order to investigate the impact of foliar Zn application in reducing the negative effects of water stress on bean growth and yield, a field experiment was carried out in the Research Field of Ilam University in 2011. The experiment was arranged in split factorial based on a randomized complete block ...
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In order to investigate the impact of foliar Zn application in reducing the negative effects of water stress on bean growth and yield, a field experiment was carried out in the Research Field of Ilam University in 2011. The experiment was arranged in split factorial based on a randomized complete block design with three replications. The experimental factors were water stress including water withholding at flowering, water withholding at pod formation and control (full irrigation) as main plot, and the factorial of Zn application levels including; 0, 2000 and 4000 ppm and two bean cultivars including; Akhtar and Dorsa as sub-plots. Results showed that water stress significantly reduced grain yield and the lowest grain yield obtained from water stress at flowering stage. The highest (3163.6 kg/ha) grain yield achieved by Zn application with 4000 ppm concentration. There was a significant difference between cultivars in different treatments and in overall Dorsa with 3846.4 kg/ha produced the highest grain yield. According to the results the most sensitive stage of bean plants to water stress is flowering stage and Zn application with a concentration of at least 4000 ppm can improve plant tolerance to water deficit.
mehrshad Barary; Mohammad Ali Baghestani Meibodi; Morteza Amuzadeh; Marzban Faramarzi
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This research was conducted to assess the effects of management and environmental factors on the weed species richness of winter crops in Ilam province. In order to recognize the weed species, three counties were selected based on the type of climate in 2011-2012. According to the cultivated areas of ...
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This research was conducted to assess the effects of management and environmental factors on the weed species richness of winter crops in Ilam province. In order to recognize the weed species, three counties were selected based on the type of climate in 2011-2012. According to the cultivated areas of winter crops in each county, 48 fields were chosen and demographic information was calculated by counting the weeds in each field. The geographic information such as altitude, longitude and elevation above sea level were recorded by GPS at each location. The results showed that 35 weed species were found in wheat (main winter crop) fields. The main broad leaf weeds in wheat fields were Malva neglecta, Vaccaria peramidata, Sinapsis arvensis, and Galium tricornutum. Avena ludoviciana were the most widespread grass weed species in these fields. It was found that S. arvensis and A. ludoviciana with 61.76 and 55.88 percent, respectively, had the greatest constancy on wheat fields. Only crop type and planting date were effective on weed species richness among crop management variables considered in this research.
Sajad Kordi; Mohammad Eskandari; Ali Fadavi; Mehrshad Barary; Masoud Rafiee; Ali Ashraf Mehrabi
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A field experiment was conducted to study the physical properties of maize grain in response to different urea fertilization methods (urea foliar spraying and soil application), three harvest times (grain moisture content of 20, 30 and 40 pecent) in four maize hybrids (three foreign hybrids e.g. NS640, ...
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A field experiment was conducted to study the physical properties of maize grain in response to different urea fertilization methods (urea foliar spraying and soil application), three harvest times (grain moisture content of 20, 30 and 40 pecent) in four maize hybrids (three foreign hybrids e.g. NS640, Jeta600 , Konsur580 and one common hybrid, SC704 as control) at Khorram Abad Agricultural Research Station in 2010. The experimental design was a strip split plot based on a complete block design with four replications. The fertilization method was considered as horizontal factor and the vertical factors were hybrid and grain moisture content (harvest time) in a split plot arrangement. Analysis of variance showed that there were significant differences among grain moiusture at harvest time treatments in terms of length, bulk density, real density and specific grain area. The 20% grain moiusture at harvest time was the best based on the physical properties. Also the effect of fertilization methods was significant for grain width and 1000-grain weight. Results showed that the highest grain width (7.81mm) and thousand kernel weight (257.38g) was achieved at urea soil application.. According to the results, Jeta Hybrid showed better physical properties compared to the other hybrids. Because, this hybrid had the highest real density (1.71 g/cm3), porosity (54.23%) and thousand kernel weight (266.57g), indicating higher grain quality.Key words: corn, fertilizer application, hybrid, porosity, real density.