Saeid Davazdahemami; Shekofe Enteshari; Marzyeh Allahdadi; shahram yasmani
Volume 23, Issue 1 , Winter 2021, , Pages 127-139
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In order to investigate the effect of irrigation water salinity on some characteristics of Ajowan (Carum copticum L. C.B. Clarke), a field experiment has been conducted in a completely randomized design with 3 replications in Isfahan, Iran during 2013. The treatments involve different levels of saline ...
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In order to investigate the effect of irrigation water salinity on some characteristics of Ajowan (Carum copticum L. C.B. Clarke), a field experiment has been conducted in a completely randomized design with 3 replications in Isfahan, Iran during 2013. The treatments involve different levels of saline water, namely 2.5 (control), 6, 9, and 18 dS.m-1. The determined traits include the yield, biochemical parameters, mineral contents, and seed essential oil content and quality. Results show that increasing salinity decreases biological yield and seed yield. Changes in essential oil components, caused by salinity, have been low, showing no specific trend. The major compound in the seed essential oil of C. capticum is thymol (56.1% to 61.2% of the essential oil). The highest concentration of total protein (root: 3.6 and shoot: 8.2 mg g-1 DW) is assigned to the control treatment, dropping significantly as salinity levels rise. Increasing salinity enhances the amount of proline and reducing sugars so that the highest amount of root proline, equal to 12 mg g-1 FW, and reducing sugars (root: 30.5 and shoot: 62 mg g-1 DW) comes from salinity of 18 dS.m-1. Increasing salinity levels raises the amount of phenolic compounds in the shoot, though this increase has not been considerable. The treatment of 18 dS.m-1 has had the lowest concentration of K+ (root: 5 and shoot: 22 mg g-1 DW) and the highest concentration of Na+ (root: 54 and shoot: 64 mg g-1 DW).It can be concluded that by increasing salinity levels, the amount of resistant osmolytes rises.
Mohammad Reza Zarea Bavany; Gholamali Peyvast; Mahmoud Ghasemnezhad; Akbar Forghani
Volume 17, Issue 4 , Winter 2016, , Pages 893-909
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Salinity is the main limiting environmental factor on plant growth and production. Therefore, finding salinity tolerant cultivars result to increase crop yield and production. However, a factorial experiment was carried out based on randomized complete block design with three replicates in hydroponic ...
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Salinity is the main limiting environmental factor on plant growth and production. Therefore, finding salinity tolerant cultivars result to increase crop yield and production. However, a factorial experiment was carried out based on randomized complete block design with three replicates in hydroponic culture. Two salinity levels (0 and 100mM NaCl) were considered the first factor and 26 greenhouse pepper cultivars was the second. Results showed a significant difference for all studied characteristics. Salt stress decreased all characteristics except to total dry matter percent and sodium concentration. The increase in sodium content accompanied with the decrease in potassium, calcium content and growth indices. Results showed a significant negative correlation between sodium with vegetative indices, potassium to sodium ratio, calcium to sodium ratio in all cultivars. Overall, ‘Paramo’, ‘Efests’ and ‘SPADI’ were known as the most tolerant pepper cultivars. According to finding of this study, the characteristics such as shoot sodium content and stress tolerance index can be used for screening salinity tolerance in pepper cultivars.
Ezatollah Esfandiari; Adel Javadi; Majid Shokrpour
Volume 15, Issue 1 , Spring 2013, , Pages 27-38
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In order to evaluate the physiological and biochemical traits in response to salinity, six varieties of wheat were cultivated in a split plot based on randomized complete block design in the growth chamber in the department of agronomy, faculty of agriculture, University of Maragheh. Seedlings of wheat ...
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In order to evaluate the physiological and biochemical traits in response to salinity, six varieties of wheat were cultivated in a split plot based on randomized complete block design in the growth chamber in the department of agronomy, faculty of agriculture, University of Maragheh. Seedlings of wheat cultivars, in three to four leaves stage were treated with 200 mM NaCl for 14 days. After the elapsed mentioned time, the activity of some antioxidant enzymes, oxidative stress indices and some physiological parameters were measured. The results showed that lipid peroxidation in all cultivars except Augusta significantly increased compared to controls. Salinity reduces membrane stability index in cultivars. While the mentioned index was stable and did not change significantly in both environments in other cultivars. Ascorbate peroxidase and catalase activities showed a significant decrease in Koohdasht, Pishtaz and MV17 cultivars under salt stress in comparison with the control. But salinity increased ascorbate peroxidase activity and decreased catalase activity in Ayzngran. Guaicul peroxidase activity was reduced by salinity only in Augusta. Glutathione S -transferase only increased in Gaskogen and Kohdasht and Pishtaz cultivars had decreased significantly. Moreover, the results showed that, despite the increase in sodium uptake by the roots of all cultivars, only Ayzngran and Augusta had the ability to transfer control of sodium to crown and leaves. Moreover, among cultivars studied, salinity significantly reduced the total dry weight per plant of Kohdasht. As a final result can be stated, although sodium is toxic element for cell metabolism, especially the leaf cells, but if the increased activity of antioxidant enzymes with the ability to store this element, except in areas cytocell, would reduce the toxicity of this element, even wheat variety is not able to prevent the transmission of sodium to leaves.