Mostafa Ebrahimikia; Matin Jami Moeini; Hamid Marvi; Yousef Hasheminejhad; Mohammad Ghasemzadeh Ganjehie
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To investigate the effects of row spacing and nitrogen application rate on growth and yield of quinoa, a split plot experiment has been conducted in a randomized complete block design with three replications in Sabzevar during 2018. The studied factors include row spacing at three levels (25, 50, and ...
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To investigate the effects of row spacing and nitrogen application rate on growth and yield of quinoa, a split plot experiment has been conducted in a randomized complete block design with three replications in Sabzevar during 2018. The studied factors include row spacing at three levels (25, 50, and 75 cm) and nitrogen application rate at four levels (0, 50, 100, and 150 kg N ha-1). Results show that the highest content of photosynthetic pigments, panicle length, number of seeds per plant, and biological yield belong to 150 kg N ha-1 treatment. However, the 100 kg N ha-1 treatment has had the highest number of panicles per plant (19.24) and 1000-seed weight (3.51 g). More row spacing has resulted in more chlorophyll contents, plant height, number of panicles, panicle length, and number of seeds per plant, but less 1000-seed weight, seed yield, and biological yield. The decrease in seed yield by increasing the row spacing to 50 and 75 cm has been 18.62 and 50.14%, respectively. The highest seed yield (6644.5 kg ha-1) has been produced via application of 150 kg N ha-1 at a row spacing of 25 cm. With increasing row spacing, nitrogen requirement to produce maximum seed yield declines. Thus, the highest seed yield in 75, 50, and 25 cm rows spacing are produced with the application of 50, 100, and 150 kg N ha-1, respectively. According to the results, the application of 150 kg N ha-1 and row spacing of 25 cm is recommended for planting quinoa, Sajama genotype.
Mohamad reza Kimiaei; Alireza Sirousmehr; Barat ALI Fakheri
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In order to investigate the effects of irrigation regimes and foliar silicon spraying on quantitative and physiological characteristics of borage (Borago officinalis), an experiment is conducted as split plot based on randomized complete block design with three replications during 2014 at the University ...
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In order to investigate the effects of irrigation regimes and foliar silicon spraying on quantitative and physiological characteristics of borage (Borago officinalis), an experiment is conducted as split plot based on randomized complete block design with three replications during 2014 at the University of Zabol research farm in Zahak. Treatments include irrigation regimes at three levels; (90%, 70%, and 50% FC) comprising the main-treatments and four levels of silicon sprying including spraying in the form of sodium silicate (Na2SiO3) (0, 2, 4, and 6 mM) as sub-treatments. The results indicate that the highest amount of proline is obtained from the interaction of irrigation regime with 50% of field capacity, without the use of silicon at the rate of 0.7847 mg.g-1. Based on the results of average comparison, the highest amount of chlorophyll a (15.919 mg/g fresh weight), chlorophyll b (7.14 mg/g fresh weight), from the interaction of irrigation regime 70% of field capacity and application of 2 mM silicon, as well as number of flowers per plant, total dry yield of plant (520 kg.ha-1) and biological yield (1187 520 kg.ha-1) Per hectare), 70% and 50% of field capacity and application of 6 mM silicon are obtained from the interaction effect of irrigation regime, respectively. Overall, the results suggest that silicon application mitigate drought stress impact and led to increasing drought tolerance of borage. Since flower and flowering branches of plant has economic value and application of 4 mM silicon acid is recommended to obtain the greatest flower yield under drought stress conditions.
Mahdieh sheikhaliyan; Yousef Sohrabi; farzad Hossainpanahi; Amir Hossein Shirani rad
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In order to investigate the interaction between sodium nitroprusside and drought stress on photosynthetic pigments and their relationship with yield and yield components of rapeseed, an experiment was conducted during two cropping years (2015-16 and 2016-17) at Hamedan Agricultural and Natural Resources ...
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In order to investigate the interaction between sodium nitroprusside and drought stress on photosynthetic pigments and their relationship with yield and yield components of rapeseed, an experiment was conducted during two cropping years (2015-16 and 2016-17) at Hamedan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center. The experiment was carried out as a factorial in randomized complete block design with three replications. Experimental factors were irrigation levels including full irrigation (control), irrigation termination from beginning silique stage and irrigation termination from grain filling stage, and four treatments of foliar application of sodium nitroprusside with concentrations of 0, 100, 200 and 300 μM. The results showed that irrigation termination significantly reduced the amounts of studied traits. Sodium nitroprusside foliar application increased the amounts of photosynthetic pigments, yield and grain yield components under drought stress and non-stress conditions. The highest and the lowest grain yield were obtained in the combination treatments of plant foliar application with 300 mM sodium nitroprusside and full irrigation (5129 kg/ha) and non-foliar application and irrigation interruption at the beginning silique stage (3396 kg/ha), respectively. The experiment indicated that sodium nitroprusside application can have positive effects on photosynthetic pigments, yield components and grain yield of rapeseed under drought stress and non-stress conditions, and therefore its application can greatly mitigate the adverse effects of drought stress in water deficit conditions.
Narges Khatun Jokar; Moazzam Hassanpour Asil
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In order to evaluate the effects of gibberellic acid and vermicompost on growth and flowering of daffodil flower, a factorial experiment has been conducted under greenhouse conditions, based on completely randomized design with 12 treatments and three replications and four samples in each replication. ...
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In order to evaluate the effects of gibberellic acid and vermicompost on growth and flowering of daffodil flower, a factorial experiment has been conducted under greenhouse conditions, based on completely randomized design with 12 treatments and three replications and four samples in each replication. The first factor involves vermicompost in four levels, namely 0 (control), 10%, 15%, and 20% of potted soil (V/V) and the second factor, three levels of gibberellic acid, 0 (control), 150, and 300 mg/L, all applied by dipping the bulbs for 48 hours. Results of analysis variance of the data show that the impacts of gibberellic acid and vermicompost on most traits such as leaf area, vase life, number of leaves, chlorophyll index, TSS, leaf phosphorus, and leaf potassium have displayed significant effects (P<0.01), compared to the control. Also gibberellic acid and vermicompost have had significant impacts (P<0.01) on carotenoid (0.28 mg.g-1Fw), leaf nitrogen (2.07%), root fresh weight (11 g), root dry weight (1.1 g), and stem diameter (8.11 mm). Also, the duration of flowering stem appearance has had significant effects (P<0.05). This study’s results show that the application of vermicompost at 20% level and gibberellic acid with a concentration of 300 mg/L have improved the growth and accelerated flowering with an average of 10 days, increasing the vase life of flowers with an average of four days with a noticeable difference, compared to the control.
Sodabeh Reza Beighi; Ehsan Bijanzadeh
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In order to study the effect of silicon on biochemical traits, leaf relative water content and yield of two bread and durum wheat cultivars under late season water stress conditions, a split factorial experiment in a randomized complete block design was conducted in three replicates during 2017-2018 ...
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In order to study the effect of silicon on biochemical traits, leaf relative water content and yield of two bread and durum wheat cultivars under late season water stress conditions, a split factorial experiment in a randomized complete block design was conducted in three replicates during 2017-2018 growing season. Treatments included of water stress in two levels included normal irrigation and water stress at the end of flowering, silicon (Si) spraying at 0, 1, 2, and 3 mM and two wheat cultivars consisted of Chamran as bread wheat and Shabrang as durum wheat. The results showed that the main effects of late seasonal water stress, cultivar and silicon on leaf relative water content (RWC), total chlorophyll, carotenoid content and yield were significant. Under water stress conditions, when plants exposed to 3 mM silicon RWC increased 50% compared to no silicon application conditions. Grain protein under water stress conditions and 3 mM silicon was 59.3% higher than no silicon condition. Also, total chlorophyll content and carotenoid content under water stress conditions and application of 3 mM silicon increased 42.5 and 44.9%, respectively. In Chamran cultivar, application of silicon at 3 mM increased total chlorophyll content, carotenoid content, RWC and grain protein 40, 43, 42 and 56.4%, respectively, which caused 19.7% increase in grain yield compared to Shabrang cultivar under water stress conditions. In general, foliar application of 3 mM silicon by improving total chlorophyll content, carotenoid content and RWC can play an important role in increasing yield under water stress conditions.
Yousef Lotfi; Esmaeil Khaleghi; Norollah Moallemi
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Given that, the qualitative characteristics of olive oil are influenced by environmental conditions and cultivars. Therefore, this study was carried out to investigate some of the oil qualitative characteristics of Tarom 2 and Dezful cultivars of olive as a randomized complete block design with 3 replications ...
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Given that, the qualitative characteristics of olive oil are influenced by environmental conditions and cultivars. Therefore, this study was carried out to investigate some of the oil qualitative characteristics of Tarom 2 and Dezful cultivars of olive as a randomized complete block design with 3 replications at Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz during 2016-2017. The results indicated that, the oil extracted from Tarom 2 cultivar exhibited the highest peroxide value (9.25 meq of O2/ kg of oil), chlorophyll content (8.10 mg/kg of oil), and carotenoid (0.16 mg/kg of oil) and K232 and K270 extinction coefficients of 2.32 and 0.61, respectively. However, total phenolic content of the oil extracted from Dezful cultivar (552.66 mg/kg of oil) was higher than that of the other cultivar. In addition, the highest oleic acid content (58.52%) and lowest palmitic acid content (17.6%) were measured on the oil obtained from the Tarom 2 cultivar, while the oil extracted from Dezful cultivar showed the highest linoleic acid content (18.05%). Furthermore, oleic acid-to-linoleic acid ratio was higher in the oil extracted from the Tarom 2 cultivar rather than the one taken from the Dezful cultivar. Therefore, based on the results obtained from the experiment, the oil extracted from Tarom 2 cultivar is expected to exhibit higher oxidative stability than that of the Dezful cultivar.
Salar Darabi; Nasser Ghaderi; Ario Emamifar
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Rashe grape cultivar grows in Kurdistan province in rain fed conditions. Microclimate conditions have a great effect on grape berry quality. Information about changes in grape berry composition in the relation to climate changes is limited. In order to measure the effects of slope and altitude on some ...
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Rashe grape cultivar grows in Kurdistan province in rain fed conditions. Microclimate conditions have a great effect on grape berry quality. Information about changes in grape berry composition in the relation to climate changes is limited. In order to measure the effects of slope and altitude on some grape berry chemical composition, a study was conducted on grape cv. ‘Rasheh’ in University of Kurdistan during 2012 and 2013. A randomized complete block design with four treatments (northern and southern slope, low and high altitude) and three replications was used. In this study, amount of carotenoids, anthocyanin, antioxidant capacity, total soluble carbohydrates, tannin and total phenol in grape berry were analyzed. Results showed that southern slope at high altitude increased amount of anthocyanin, antioxidant capacity, phenol and total soluble carbohydrates. Maximum values in the concentration of carotenoid and tannin in grape berry obtained in the northern slope and lower altitude. Berries from Northern slope and lower altitude were found to have a significantly lower anthocyanin and total soluble carbohydrates compared to other treatments. Based on these results, it can be concluded that the planting in the southern slope and higher altitude will help to grape growers for improve the qualitative characteristics of the grape berries.
Reza Fifaei; Reza Fotouhi Ghazvini; Behrooz Golein; Yusef Hamidoghli
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Citrus often were encountered with periodic droughts. For this reason, drought effect on six-month-old seedlings of Poncirus (PT) (Poncirus trifoliata Raf.),Troyer citrange (TC) (Citrus sinensis Osbec. × Poncirus trifoliata Raf.),Citrumello (CR) (Citrus paradisi M. × Citrus sinensis Osbec.),Sour ...
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Citrus often were encountered with periodic droughts. For this reason, drought effect on six-month-old seedlings of Poncirus (PT) (Poncirus trifoliata Raf.),Troyer citrange (TC) (Citrus sinensis Osbec. × Poncirus trifoliata Raf.),Citrumello (CR) (Citrus paradisi M. × Citrus sinensis Osbec.),Sour orange (SO) (Citrus aurantium L.),andCleopatra mandarin (CM) (Citrus reshni L.) were tested on 2014 in Ramsar Citrus Research Institute. This research was conducted as factorial experiment based on completely randomized design with three replications. The factors included commercial Citrus rootstocks and two level of irrigation. The results showed that maximum quantities of proline, total soluble sugars, malondialdehyde and carotenoid and minimum quantities of total, b and a chlorophyll were observed in drought stress. Maximum accumulation of proline (ordered 306.41 and 281.65 µmol/gdw) and total soluble sugars (ordered 233.79 and 137.9 mg/gdw) and minimum accumulation of malondialdehyde (ordered 179.21 and 204.1 µmol/gdw) were observed in SO and CM rootstocks under drought stress. Decreasing amount of total and chlorophyll a in CM and chl b in SO rootstock was more than other rootstocks and decreasing amount of total and b, a chlorophyll in CR was least. Furthermore, increasing amount of carotenoid in SO and CM was most and the least amounts in PT was observed. On the basis of the study, trifoliate rootstocks as Poncirus, Troyer citrange and Citrumello tolerate as much as drought.
Mansoure Hatamian; Mostafa Arab; Mahmoud Reza Roozban
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Biosynthesis of plant pigments is affected by environmental factors especially light intensity. An expriment was conducted to evaluate the effect of different light intensities on photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic pigments of two rose cultivars including ‘Red One’ and ‘Gulmira’ ...
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Biosynthesis of plant pigments is affected by environmental factors especially light intensity. An expriment was conducted to evaluate the effect of different light intensities on photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic pigments of two rose cultivars including ‘Red One’ and ‘Gulmira’ under greenhouse conditions. In this experiment, the effects of different light intensities including 240, 520 and 640 mol/m2/s and control with 1200 mol/m2/s (without application of plastic nets) on the rose cultivars was evaluated under greenhouse conditions. Plastic nets were used to obtain different levels of light intensities. The results showed that photosynthetic pigments, chlorophyll and carotenoids, significantly increased in the light intensity of 240 mol/m2/s vs. control. In this light intensity, antocyanin content was significantly reduced. Reducing light intensity to 240 mol/m2/s could result in higher chlorophyll as well as carotenoid content without significant changes in flavonoids. Increasing anthocyanin content with increasing light intensity to 1200 mol/m2/s could be a defense mechanism in plants against toxic levels of light intensities.