Ali Asghar Ghaderi; Barat Ali Fakheri; Nafiseh Mahdi Nezhad
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In order to investigate the effects of foliar application of ascorbic acid on the growth indexes and physiological traitsof thyme under drought stress, an experiment was conducted in the split plots based on randomized complete block design with three replications at the Research Farm, Faculty of Agriculture ...
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In order to investigate the effects of foliar application of ascorbic acid on the growth indexes and physiological traitsof thyme under drought stress, an experiment was conducted in the split plots based on randomized complete block design with three replications at the Research Farm, Faculty of Agriculture University of Zabol, Iran. The main factor was drought stress and applied based on the irrigation at 75, 55 and 35% FC and the subplot was foliar application with three levels including distilled water (control), 10 mM and 20 mM ascorbic acid. Main effects of drought stress and foliar application of ascorbic acid were significant (P≤0.01) for all studied traits. The interaction of water stress and foliar application of ascorbic acid was significant only for proline. Applying severe stress compared with control was decreased the total chlorophyll, carotenoid, root and shoot dry weight (29.0, 39.9, 50.5 and 43.0%, respectively), while the leaf proline and the root length were increased (44.2 and 26.6%, respectively). The foliar application of ascorbic acid (20 mM) significantly increased the amounts of photosynthetic pigments, shoot length, root and shoot weight. Simple correlation coefficients of the traits showed a significant and positive relationship between shoot dry weight and other traits, in drought stress and 20 mM foliar application of ascorbic acid conditions. Factor analysis was identified four factors for normal and four factors for severe stress conditions that at overall were explained 98 and 95% of total variation, respectively. In general, it was concluded that photosynthetic pigments and root-related traits would be the important yield related criteria (shoot dry weight), that can be beneficial in the development of thyme with higher performance under stress conditions.
Hamideh Azad; Baratali Fakheri; nafiseh mahdinezhad; Qhasem Parmoon
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In order to study the effect of foliar application of nano iron chelated on antioxidant enzymes activity and yield of chamomile genotypes under drought stress condition, a factorial experiment based on randomized complete block design with three replications was conducted at the research greenhouse of ...
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In order to study the effect of foliar application of nano iron chelated on antioxidant enzymes activity and yield of chamomile genotypes under drought stress condition, a factorial experiment based on randomized complete block design with three replications was conducted at the research greenhouse of the University of Zabol in 2014. Experimental treatments included drought stress (at 2 levels of control or 90% of field capacity and 70% of field capacity) and nano iron chelate (at 2 levels of control and 2 mg/l) and genotypes, including (Isfahan, Mashhad, Shiraz, Kerman, Arak and Safashahr). The results showed that the drought stress according to the genotype had different effects on antioxidant enzyme activities so that the enzymes activities increased in some of the genotypes and decreased in some of them. Water stress caused to increasing in catalase activity in genotypes of Arak, Kerman and Safashahr, peroxidase and increasing in ascrobats peroxidase activity in genotypes of Isfahan, Mashhad, Arak and Kerman, and increasing in polyphenol oxidase and guaiacol peroxidase in genotypes of Shiraz and Safashahr.The highest the economic yield were observed in Esfahan genotype. Generally, it could be said that stress causes damaging effects on the plant and using of nano-chelate can increase the plant̕ s tolerance to stress and application of Isfahan and Mashhad genotypes are suitable for stress conditions.