Babak Sepehri; Hami dreza tohidi Moghadam; Farshad Ghooshchi; Meysam Oveysi; Pourang Kasraie
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Periwinkle herb with the scientific name (Catharanthus roseus) is one of the most important medicinal plants in the world which in addition to haring leaves beautiful flowers and decorative application, it also has different applications in pharmaceutical industries cosmetics and hygienic. This plant, ...
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Periwinkle herb with the scientific name (Catharanthus roseus) is one of the most important medicinal plants in the world which in addition to haring leaves beautiful flowers and decorative application, it also has different applications in pharmaceutical industries cosmetics and hygienic. This plant, in its young leaves has very important alkaloids which called vinblastine and vincristine which has in chemotherapy of different type of cancers (leukemia, breast and lymph nodes) and its roots contain ajmalicine alkaloids that is used in treatment of hypotension. This research was for investigation of the effect of growth regulator and spraying of zinc and magnesium nanoparticles under the conditions of drought stresses on total alkaloids, anthocyanin, total chlorophyll, the weight of wet and dry branches contain alkaloids, and the number of lateral branches periwinkle herb (Catharanthus roseus (L.) G.DON) arranged as a factorial pot experiment based on a completely randomized design which took place in greenhouse condition during years 2020 and 2021 in Tehran, Iran. In the study of the effects of drought stress and spraying of zinc and magnesium nanoparticles on all investigated traits (total alkaloid, anthocyanin, total chlorophyll, fresh and dry weight of alkaloid-containing branches, and the number of lateral branches), there was a statistically significant difference in A level of 1% was observed (P≤0.01). But in the interactions effects of drought stresses and growth regulator showed the highest effect on wet branches contain alkaloids (P≤0.01).
Saeid Naservafaei; Yousef Sohrabi; Parviz Moradi
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The present study has been conducted to investigate the effect of Brassinosteroid on some physiological traits, yield components, seed yield, and oil of Dragon’s head under deficit irrigation conditions. The experiment has been conducted as split-plot based on a randomized complete block design ...
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The present study has been conducted to investigate the effect of Brassinosteroid on some physiological traits, yield components, seed yield, and oil of Dragon’s head under deficit irrigation conditions. The experiment has been conducted as split-plot based on a randomized complete block design with three replications during 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 in the research farm of Agricultural Research and Training Center and Natural Resources of Zanjan Province. Experimental treatments include deficit irrigation (normal or control irrigation, irrigation cut-off from the beginning of flowering to the end of maturity, irrigation cut-off from the beginning of branching (emergence of the sixth pair of main stem leaves to physiological maturity) in main and foliar spraying with Brassinosteroid with concentrations of 0.5, 1.5, 1.5 μM, and control, all applied in the sub plots. Results show that irrigation cut-off from the beginning of branching has decreased in total the chlorophyll content (42.8%), number of capsules per plant (62.7%), number of seed per plant (66.1%), 1000-seed weight (22.3%), biological and seed yield (62.1%), harvest index (30.8%), and oil yield (75.1%). Foliar application with Brassinosteroids has only significantly increased the leaf total chlorophyll concentration and seed oil percentage under different levels of irrigation cut-off stress. There is a statistically significant difference between foliar application levels with Brassinosteroids for leaf total chlorophyll concentration and seed oil percentage traits. There is a need for complementary researches to prove the effectiveness of foliar application with this growth regulator to improve growth and yield of Dragon’s head under deficit irrigation conditions.
Bahare Kashefi; Mohadese Ghods; Mohamad Mogadam
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To study the interaction effect of the salinity and salicylic acid on some morphological and physiological traits in clary sage (Salvia sclarea), a pot experiment was conducted as factorial based on a completely randomized design with three levels of NaCl and control (zero, 50, 100 and 150 mM), as the ...
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To study the interaction effect of the salinity and salicylic acid on some morphological and physiological traits in clary sage (Salvia sclarea), a pot experiment was conducted as factorial based on a completely randomized design with three levels of NaCl and control (zero, 50, 100 and 150 mM), as the first factor and three levels of spraying the solution of salicylic acid and control (zero, 100, 200 and 300 mg/L), as the second factor with three replications in the greenhouse of Semnan Jihad-e-Agriculture Education center in 2013.The results of data variance analysis showed that the interaction of the salinity stress and salicylic acid levels were significant in other traits except the leaf length fresh weight and the rate of carotenoids. The maximum effect was seen at the salinity level of 50 and 100 mM and salicylic acid application at 200 mg/l. The results of this study indicated that leaf area and number, petiole length, leaf length and width, leaf fresh and dry weight, root length, chlorophylls concentration were influenced by the salinity levels in this plant. Somehow, their rates were decreased by increasing the salinity level, whereas the rates of soluble sugar, proline and carotenoid were increased. The application of salicylic acid showed a reducing effect in all traits.
Fariborz Zaare-Nahandi; Nilufar Mohamadi Silabi
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Flowering and fruit production of ‘Nagami’ kumquat is somewhat different from other citrus species because usually have three flowering peak in a year which can lead to producing fruits with different quality on a tree. Considering the proper effect of paclobutrazol on raising citrus flowering, ...
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Flowering and fruit production of ‘Nagami’ kumquat is somewhat different from other citrus species because usually have three flowering peak in a year which can lead to producing fruits with different quality on a tree. Considering the proper effect of paclobutrazol on raising citrus flowering, a pot experiment with three levels of paclobutrazol (zero, 0.1 and 0.5 g ai per tree) and six replications was conducted as a complete randomized block design. The results showed that paclobutrazol had effective effect on kumquat flowering and fruit set. Effect of paclobutrazol on shoot growth before and after the flowering period and the number of shoots after flowering period was significant and led to reducing them. All paclobutrazol treatments led to early flowering, increasing the number of first and second flower flush and fruit production. In terms of fruit quality, significant decrease in the length, diameter/length ratio and acidity of fruits was observed. In general, paclobutrazol caused a marked increase in fruit production of ‘Nagami’ kumquat, while retained most of the desirable traits of fruit.