Raheleh Arab; Alireza Yadavi; Hamidreza Balouchi; Hamid Alahdadii
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Objective: This experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of drought stress and foliar application of Fe and Zn on agronomical characteristics of sunflowerMethods: a farm experiment was carried out in the Fars agricultural research center in the split plots form base on a randomized complete ...
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Objective: This experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of drought stress and foliar application of Fe and Zn on agronomical characteristics of sunflowerMethods: a farm experiment was carried out in the Fars agricultural research center in the split plots form base on a randomized complete block design with three replications during 2014. Irrigation at three levels (irrigation after 60, 120, and 180 mm of evaporation from A class evaporation pan) as the main plots and foliar application at four levels (water, iron sulfate, zinc sulfate, and iron sulfate+ zinc sulfate) were used as sub-plots.Results: The results showed that the delay in irrigation from 60 to 180 mm of evaporation caused a decrease in the number of seeds per head, grain yield and biological yield by 24.8%, 37.5% and 30%, respectively. The foliar application of iron sulfate + zinc sulfate compared to the control treatment increased the number of seeds per head, 1000-seed weight and grain yield by 24.1%, 16.6 percent and 14.3 percent, respectively. The delay in irrigation, increased the water use efficiency by 50.9%. The interaction between irrigation and foliar application had a significant effect on leaf and grain iron concentration and leaf zinc concentration, so that with delay in irrigation, absorption of nutrients decreased, but foliar application under drought stress conditions increased iron and zinc absorption in sunflowerConclusion: According to these results, it can be stated that with micronutrient foliar spraying, the severe drop in sunflower yield can be prevented under drought stress conditions
Seyed Mojtaba Mosavi; Ehsan Bijanzadeh; Zahra Zinati; Vahid Barati
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In order to investigate the effect under late season cutting off irrigation on biochemical properties and yield of safflower cultivars a split factorial experiment in a randomized complete block design was conducted in three replicates at College of Agriculture and Natural resources of Darab, Shiraz ...
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In order to investigate the effect under late season cutting off irrigation on biochemical properties and yield of safflower cultivars a split factorial experiment in a randomized complete block design was conducted in three replicates at College of Agriculture and Natural resources of Darab, Shiraz University during 2017-2018 growing season. The main factor was irrigation regime in three levels included of normal irrigation, cutting off irrigation in the middle of the flowering, and in the early seed filling stages and sub factor was safflower cultivars including Padideh, Goldasht, Faraman and Isfahan local. Cutting off irrigation in flowering stage decreased 30.37% of chlorophyll a and 25.8% of chlorophyll b, and increased 15.38% carotenoid, 23.38% of catalase activity and 34.94 % of peroxidase activity, which in Goldasht cultivar was more than the other cultivars. Under cutting off irrigation at flowering and seed filling, the highest seed yield was obtained in Goldasht cultivar as 132 and 150.5 g/m2, respectively. Overall, cutting of irrigation at flowering and seed filling stages reduced grain yield by 32.3 and 19.93%, respectively. Under cutting off irrigating, seed yield with chlorophyll a content (r=0.77**), chlorophyll b (r=0.86**), carotenoid (r=0.74**), catalase (r=0.71**), peroxidase (r=0.72**), and harvest index (r=0.83**) had positive and significant correlation. In addition, Goldasht cultivar of safflower could by increasing photosynthetic pigments and enzyme activity under water deficit in late season obtained the more seed yield compared to other cultivars.
Sona Mozaffari; Sarah Khorasaninejad; hossein gorgini shabankareh
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In order to study the effects of irrigation regimes and humic acid applications on some of physiological and biochemical characteristics of Portulaca oleracea L., a greenhouse experiment was conducted as factorial based on completely randomized design with three replications at the research greenhouse ...
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In order to study the effects of irrigation regimes and humic acid applications on some of physiological and biochemical characteristics of Portulaca oleracea L., a greenhouse experiment was conducted as factorial based on completely randomized design with three replications at the research greenhouse of plant production faculty of Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, during of 2014-15. The factors were irrigation regimes including four levels: (25, 50, 75 and 100 percent of field capacity) and four concentrations of humic acid: (0, 200, 400 and 600mg/L). Traits evaluated were proline, RWC, total phenol, flavonoid, antioxidant, soluble carbohydrate and carotenoid content. The results showed that the treatments had significant effects on all the studied traits. Irrigation regimes had significant effect on proline, total phenol, flavonoid, antioxidant, soluble carbohydrate. The highest level of irrigation regimes (25 percent FC) increased proline and decreased RWC and carotenoid. Humic acid had significant effect on all traits except of carotenoid content that were the highest in 400 mg/L humic acid. Interaction effect of humic acid and irrigation regimes was significant for all traits except for total phenol. Irrigation regimes increased antioxidant (12.34%), soluble carbohydrate (36.9%), in 25% and 50% FC, respectively. Generally, the best of treatments is 400mg/L humic acid and 25percent FC, economically. Because the highest yield achieved with low water and humic acid.