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.
Farnaz Ahmadi; Abdolrahman Mohammadkhani
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Optimal nutrition of grapevine is one of the most important factors that affect the quantity, quality and time of fruit ripening. To increase the quantity and quality of ‘Askari’ cultivar, a factorial experiment in a randomized complete block design with three replications was conducted at ...
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Optimal nutrition of grapevine is one of the most important factors that affect the quantity, quality and time of fruit ripening. To increase the quantity and quality of ‘Askari’ cultivar, a factorial experiment in a randomized complete block design with three replications was conducted at Shahrekord in 2010. Treatments consisted of four levels of potassium sulfate fertilizer (zero, 300, 600 and 900 g per vine) and four levels of boric acid fertilizer (zero, 1000, 2000, and 3000 ppm). The results showed that potassium had a significant effect on yield and yield components. Different levels of potassium sulfate and boric acid increased cluster (number, weight, length, width) and fruit soluble solids. With increasing potassium levels, the number of clusters (14, 18 and 25) and content of total soluble solid (0.54, 1.45 and 1.53 percent) were significantly increased in comparison with control, respectively. Also, total soluble solids of berries were increased significantly (0.76, 0.75 and 1.25 percent) with boron treatment compared to control. The highest TSS (18.8) obtained in 900 mg of potassium sulfate per square meter, while it caused the greatest reduction in fruit acidity compared with the control. Fruits pH was decreased by 0.3 units with application of 3000 ppm of boric acid. The results of this experiment showed that nutrient treatments, especially potassium sulfate accelerated fruit ripening and increased fruit yield and sugar content.