Nutritional compositions and yield of sweet fennel cultivars –<i> Foeniculum vulgare</i> Mill. ssp. <i>vulgare</i> var.<i>azoricum</i> (Mill.) Thell

Biofertilizers and Drought Stress Effects on Yield and Yield Components of Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill.)

Effects of biofertilizers and stacosorb polymer* on yield and yield components of fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill.) under drought stress were evaluated using a split-factorial experiment based on a randomized complete block design (RCBD) with three replications at the agricultural research farm of Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran in 2013. The factors included drought condition (stressed a...

The effect of organic and biological fertilizers on essential oil content of Foeniculum vulgare Mill. (Sweet Fennel)

In order to evaluate the effect of different biological and organic fertilizers on essential oil content of sweet fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill), an experiment was conducted at Research field of Faculty of Agriculture, Shahrood University of Technology in 2010. The experiment was conducted in a completely randomized block design with 11 treatments and three replications. The experimental trea...

Phytotoxicity and stimulatory impacts of nanosized and bulk titanium dioxide on fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill).

The objective of the this study was to compare concentrations of nanosized TiO2 at 0, 5, 20, 40, 60 and 80 mg L(-1) with bulk TiO2 for phytotoxic and stimulatory effects on fennel seed germination and early growth stage. After 14 d of seed incubation, germination percentage highly improved following exposure to 60 ppm nanosized TiO2. Similar positive effects occurred in terms of shoot dry weigh...

Levels of major and trace elements in fennel (Foeniculum vulgari Mill.) fruits cultivated in Ethiopia

BACKGROUND Sweet fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill.) is one of the precious spices. Almost all parts of fennel plant are edible. The herb is used as carminative, digestive, diuretic, cosmetic and medicine. METHODS A 0.5 g of the oven dried fennel fruit and soil samples were digested by wet-digestion method. The levels of selected elements (Ca, Mg, Fe, Mn, Cu, Cr, Co, Zn, Ni, Cd and Pb) were det...

Effect of nitrogen and potassium on growth, bulb yield and antioxidant properties of sweet fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill. Cv. Boelli RZ F1)