Ahmadreza Najafi; asghar estaji; mahdi ghasemi
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The percentage and rate of seed germination are critical factors leading to high yield in agriculture, but it has a diminishing effect on environmental stress. Seed pretreatment is one of the ways to increase the strength and velocity of seed germination to deal with salt stress. The purpose of this ...
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The percentage and rate of seed germination are critical factors leading to high yield in agriculture, but it has a diminishing effect on environmental stress. Seed pretreatment is one of the ways to increase the strength and velocity of seed germination to deal with salt stress. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of seed pretreatment by peppermint (0.5, 1, and 2%) and seaweed extract (0.5, 1, and 2%) with control on the growth and biochemical traits of Thymus daenensis seedling under salinity stress (0, 50, 100, and 150 mM NaCl) conditions. This experiment was conducted as a factorial as a completely randomized design in four replications at the seedling growth stage. The results showed that seed pretreatment with peppermint and seaweed extract increased the percentage, velocity, and time of germination as well as the number of germinated seeds, in the absence of salinity stress. In seedling growth characteristics, although they were better in the absence of salinity stress, the pretreatment of the seeds significantly reduced the effects of salinity stress compared to the control conditions. The highest amount of chlorophyll in this condition was obtained in seeds treated with 2% seaweed extract. The highest activity of catalase enzyme and polyphenol oxidase enzyme was obtained in 100 and 150 mM salinity stress conditions and seeds treated with 1 and 2% seaweed extract, respectively. Salinity stress had caused a decrease in growth parameters, but seaweed extract pretreatment had improved the conditions.
Azam Khaleghi; Alireza Dadkhah; Reza Rezvani
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This research was conducted in order to investigate the effect of aqueous extract of different organs of Artemisia aucheri on the growth and germination traits of Brassica napus and Goldbachia laevigata in two separate experiments including the laboratory and the greenhouse conditions, respectively. ...
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This research was conducted in order to investigate the effect of aqueous extract of different organs of Artemisia aucheri on the growth and germination traits of Brassica napus and Goldbachia laevigata in two separate experiments including the laboratory and the greenhouse conditions, respectively. The experiments were exerted based on a completely randomized design with three replications and randomized complete block design with four replications, respectively. The test treatments included aqueous extracts of Artemisia in concentrations of 5, 10 and 15% of roots, 5, 10 and 15% of aerial organs and control (distilled water). The results showed that with increasing extract concentration, the germination and growth traits and total chlorophyll of both investigated plants significantly decreased. In such a way that the highest and lowest inhibition rates were associated with 15% root extract and 5% aerial organs extract, respectively. The level of 15% Artemisia root extract in Brassica decreased the germination percentage by 37.1% and in Goldbachia by 48.5% compared to the control. Increasing of extract concentration from zero to 15% of arial parts decreased stem length decreased by 30.3% in Brassica and 56.3% in Goldbachia compared to the control. Most of the examined traits in Goldbachia weed, were more sensitive to the allelopathic effects of Artemisia extract compared to Brassica. in general, root extract of Artemisia were more capable of dealing with germination and seedling growth than the aerial organs. Therefore, 15% aqueous extract of Artemisia root can be suggested to reduce the growth and weakening of the weed Goldbachia.
mahboobe mohammadi; R. Tavakkol Afshari; Mohammad Hassan Rashed Mohassel; ehsan neamatollahi
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This experiment was designed to investigate the effect of seed coating with micronutrient elements, regulators and growth stimulants on the characteristics of germination and seedling establishment of sugar beet seeds, and in the form of a completely randomized design with four repetitions in the year ...
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This experiment was designed to investigate the effect of seed coating with micronutrient elements, regulators and growth stimulants on the characteristics of germination and seedling establishment of sugar beet seeds, and in the form of a completely randomized design with four repetitions in the year 2020, in the Razavi Seed and Plant Institute was carried out under laboratory and greenhouse conditions. The treatments of this experiment were different combinations of micronutrient elements, regulators and growth stimulants which included 29 treatments along with a control treatment (without coating). The results showed that germination percentage, daily germination rate, germination rate coefficient, root and shoot length, root and shoot dry weight, and seedling root length index were significantly affected. Seed coating treatments were applied. In general, treatment 21, including macro elements + micro elements + humic acid + Gibberellic acid, with a germination percentage of 97%, seedling length index 13.87, allometric coefficient 0.2232, as the best treatment, increasing the mean You have a witness about the treatment. Also, among the different seed coating treatments, treatment 22, including microelements + humic acid + Gibberellic acid + kaolin, had the highest percentage of seedling establishment with 95%. Seed coating with micronutrients, humic acid and Gibberellic acid had the greatest effect on improving seedling growth and quality and germination percentage.
elham faghani; shahram Nowrouzieh
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The seeds harvested from different climates in the process of seed delinting in the factory had different vigor and emergence in the field. Therefore, this research was carried out with the aim of investigating the physiological and mechanical characteristics of delinted seeds in the factory. This project ...
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The seeds harvested from different climates in the process of seed delinting in the factory had different vigor and emergence in the field. Therefore, this research was carried out with the aim of investigating the physiological and mechanical characteristics of delinted seeds in the factory. This project was done as a completely randomized block. The blocks were cultivars from different climate. Finally, traits such as the percentage of mature and immature seeds, seed coat and endosperm weight, ion leakage, seed scratchiness, density, volume, and breaking force of seed were studied. The results showed that the percentage of immature seeds was the highest in Golestan in dry-hot and Khordad in dry-cold. The highest percentage of scratched seeds was in Golestan in dry-moderate and the lowest percentage of scratched seeds was in Golestan in dry-hot province, Kashmer in dry-cold climate and Latif in dry-moderate. The highest percentage of healthy seeds that completed their physiological maturity was observed in Latif in dry-moderate with 98.8%. While the Golestan in the dry-hot had the lowest percentage of mature seed weight among the studied cultivars. The highest and the lowest failure force were in Khurshid, 83.75 N, and Golestan from dry- hot regions with 47.9N. In general, results cleared that failure force, percentage of crashed,,, broken, immature,, 100-seed weight and seed size for Golestan in both climates dry-moderate and dry-hot showed that both hull seed and de-hulled the Golestan seeds which are produced in dry-moderate are more tolerant rather than the seeds of dry-hot.
Ali Shayanfar; Samad Mobasser; Bita Oskouei; Leila Zare
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Camelina Cv. Soheil seed storability was assessed to simulate after-harvest condition till the following growing season. Seven seed samples were collected from Shirvan, Fasa, Marvdasht, Kermanshah, Hamedan, Sabzevar, and Ilam regions and saved for six months in two storage condition (with two temperatures ...
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Camelina Cv. Soheil seed storability was assessed to simulate after-harvest condition till the following growing season. Seven seed samples were collected from Shirvan, Fasa, Marvdasht, Kermanshah, Hamedan, Sabzevar, and Ilam regions and saved for six months in two storage condition (with two temperatures of 10 and 25ºC). Then, they were drow out monthly from storage condition to evaluate different seed germination index and vigour. Moisture seed content did not acced more than 10 percent in all treatments. Germination percentage and normal seedlings were more than 94% after 6 months of storage in all seed samples and two temperatures. Weight seedling vigour showed no significant differences in all samples, except the Sabzevar sample. The effects of three factors (seed samples, temperature and storage time) on rate germination index were difference. Seed physiological responses (in terms of rate germination) to 10 and 25ºC temperatures were similar until the fourth months in more samples. However, a declining process was observed from the fourth month at 25ºC and from the fifth month at 10ºC for these responses and accend minimum in six months. Two seed samples of Hamedan and Kermanshah showed higher rate of germination. In total, Camelina seeds showed high storage potential due to high germination percentage was recorded after six months of storage. In addition, if seeds stored for more than 4 months, plants in field condition lower germination rate will observe.
Abu-Alfazl Khodadadi; rayhaneh Amooaghaie
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Gundelia tournefortii L. seeds owing to the strongly lignified disseminule from secondary capitulum, cannot germinate easily. In current study, three individual experiments were done to investigate the impact of chemical scarification (treatment with water, hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, acetic acid, ...
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Gundelia tournefortii L. seeds owing to the strongly lignified disseminule from secondary capitulum, cannot germinate easily. In current study, three individual experiments were done to investigate the impact of chemical scarification (treatment with water, hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, acetic acid, sodium hypochlorite and hydrogen peroxide in durations of 20, 40, 60 min), physical scarification (control, scalpel, blade and 5, 10 min sand paper) and temperature shocks (individual or combined treatment with boiled water for 60 min and 1, 2, 3 days freezing on seed germination of chelgerd population. Results showed that in non-scarified seeds, germination was very low, but all mechanical scarification methods significantly increased seed germination. Among chemical scarification treatments, the highest seed germination obtained by 20 min soaking in hydrochloric acid but seedling growth was not favorable. The combined treatment of 60 min soaking in hot water and 3 days freezing, better than individual temperature shock increased germination indices, seedling length and vigor. In sum, results showed that the best method for physical dormancy breaking of kenger seeds was scarifying with scalpel that imparted the maximum germination percentage (58.46%), peak value (3.5), mean daily germination (3.2 days) and germination value (11.53).