Khadijeh Shahsavarpour Lendeh; Hemmatollah Pirdashti; Esmaeil Bakhshandeh
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In order to investigate the effect of a native plant growth promoting bacteria (Enterobacter sp.) on some vegetative characteristics and paddy yield of rice(cv. ‘Tarom Hashemi’), a field experiment was carried out in Babol (Aghamalek village) at 2016. This experiment was arranged in split ...
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In order to investigate the effect of a native plant growth promoting bacteria (Enterobacter sp.) on some vegetative characteristics and paddy yield of rice(cv. ‘Tarom Hashemi’), a field experiment was carried out in Babol (Aghamalek village) at 2016. This experiment was arranged in split plots based on a randomized complete block design with three replications. Six levels of potassium sulfate fertilizer (PSF: 0, 25, 50, 75, 100 and 125 kg ha-1) were used as the main plots and four levels of inoculations (non-inoculation as control, seed inoculation in the seedbed condition, seedling root inoculation before transplanting time and combined both previously methods) served as the sub-plots. The results indicated that various methods of inoculation increased plant height (1.25-2.54%), tillers number per hill (TNH; 11.7-16.5%), total leaves number per hill (TLN; 12.5-14.2%), leaf area index (LAI; 7.16-17.9%) and paddy yield (PY; 14.6-19.8%) of rice and the occurring of anthesis stage were about one day sooner as compared to the control condition. In this experiment, the studied traits significantly influenced by PSF and various methods of inoculation, but the interaction effect between them were not significant. Among inoculation methods, the combined method was better than others. In addition, the values of all studied traits such as PH, TNH, TLN, LAI and PY (18.2% more than the control) increased as PSF increased from zero to 125 kg ha-1. Consequently, the application of Enterobacter sp. and PSF through improved the vegetative characteristics, particularly in LAI, TNH and TLN, resulted to increase in the radiation interception capacity, photosynthetic efficiency and improved PY of rice.
Nahid Fathi; Hemmatollah Pirdashti; Morteza Nasiri; Esmaeil Bakhshandeh
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This study aimed to investigate the effect of different local climates on grain yield (GY) and yield components (YC) of two different rice cultivars (cvs. ‘Tarom Hashemi’ and ‘Shiroudi’) and also to quantify the relationships between GY and YC with the average of weather temperature ...
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This study aimed to investigate the effect of different local climates on grain yield (GY) and yield components (YC) of two different rice cultivars (cvs. ‘Tarom Hashemi’ and ‘Shiroudi’) and also to quantify the relationships between GY and YC with the average of weather temperature (T, °C) and solar radiation (SR, MJ m-2 d-1) during the growing season of rice. Three field experiments were conducted separately based on the randomized complete blocks design with four replications, at the paddy fields of Babolsar, Amol and Polesefid cities in northern Iran in 2014. The results indicated that the effect of different local climates were statistically significant on GY, the number of panicles, length of panicle, weight of panicle, total number of grain in each panicle and the number of filled grain (P < 0.01). In all traits, the values related to Polesefid were lower than both Amol and Babolsar which can be resulted in lower T and SR during the rice growing, especially in the reproductive stage. Decline in T and SR due to increasing in the above mean sea level were cased a decrease in GY and biological yield of both cultivars (about 10-25 percent, depending on the cultivar). In addition, GY was affected by decrease in T more than SR. Consequently, the results shown that we simply can quantify the variation in GY in both cultivars under different local climates and also can calculate a possible reduction in GY due to the delay in transplanting.