nematollah sedaghat; Abbas Biabani; morteza nasiri; Allahyar Fallah; nahid fathi
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Water plays a very important role in the rice plant. In order to investigate the effects of irrigation methods and foliar application of nutrients on growth, yield, yield components, and quality of rice, an experiment has been conducted as split plots layouts based on a randomized complete block design ...
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Water plays a very important role in the rice plant. In order to investigate the effects of irrigation methods and foliar application of nutrients on growth, yield, yield components, and quality of rice, an experiment has been conducted as split plots layouts based on a randomized complete block design with three replications and two factors including three irrigation methods (flooding, alternate wetting, drying, and Saturating) in the main plots as well as foliar spray in six levels (normal water, nitrogen, nitrogen+ potassium, nitrogen+ potassium+ zinc, nitrogen+ potassium+ zinc+ boron and nitrogen+ potassium+ zinc+ boron+ molybdenum) in the sub plots during 2018, in rice research institute, the deputy of Mazandaran (Amol), executed on a national cultivar. Results show that among irrigation method, fertilizer, and their interaction, paddy yield and percentage of amylose have been significantly at (p<0.01) percent with other qualitative traits being significant at (p<0.01) percent. The highest number of floret per panicle (198.73) and full grain (167.15), and percentage of amylose (21.67%) are obtained in saturated irrigation. The highest yield of paddy with an average of 6643.07 kg.ha-1 occurs in saturated irrigation under normal water foliar application and drought and moisture. Irrigation under nitrogen + potassium + zinc foliar irrigation with an average of 6163.13 kg.ha-1 compared to the control is obtained as the superior treatment in similar conditions were selected for this study.
Mahdi Sadeghi Raviz; Nourollah Ahmadi; Naser Safaie; Iman Rahmani
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The effect of methyl jasmonate (MeJA) vapor treatment on antioxidant enzymes activities and vase life of gerbera cut flower was investigated in this experiment. This research was conducted as a split-plot experiment based on completely randomized design with three replications at the laboratory of the ...
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The effect of methyl jasmonate (MeJA) vapor treatment on antioxidant enzymes activities and vase life of gerbera cut flower was investigated in this experiment. This research was conducted as a split-plot experiment based on completely randomized design with three replications at the laboratory of the postharvest physiology, College of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University in 2013. Gerbera flowers were harvested at early morning from a commercial greenhouse and cut flower stems were put in a preservative solution containing 200 mg/L 8- hydroxyquinoline sulfate and sucrose 3%, exposed to 0, 0.1, 0.2 and 0.3 µlL−1 MeJA with 20 µlL−1 ethanol and control for 24 h. The results showed that MeJA significantly increased vase life and improved postharvest characteristics of cut gerbera flowers. MeJA 0.2 µlL−1 treatment extended the vase life to 15.67 days, compared to the control and ethanol treatments. Minimum of petal wilting symptoms were revealed in samples treated with MeJA. The lowest malondialdehyde and lipid peroxidation rates were also observed in MeJA treatments that they had a significant difference with ethanol and control. MeJA treatments resulted in increasing antioxidant enzymes activity and protein content compared with ethanol or control.