Predictable seedling establishment is essential for resource-efficient and cost-effective crop production; it is widely accepted as a critically important trait determining yield and profitability. Seed vigour is essential to this, but its genetic basis is not understood. We used natural variation and fine mapping in the crop Brassica oleracea to show that allelic variation at three loci influe...

The objective of this paper was to evaluate the effect of nitric oxide (NO) as a protecting agent of sesame seeds submitted to different concentrations of cadmium. The treatments were: water (control), water increased by sodium nitroprusside (SNP) and other treatments regarding the concentrations of cadmium increased by SNP. The following determinations were done: germination, first count of ge...

The experiment was conducted during October 2014 to December evaluate the effect of different levels salinity on seed germination and seedling growth sunflower. factorial consists three variety sunflower such as BRAC HySun 33, BARI sunflower-2, KU SL-1 five viz. 4, 8, 12, 16 dS m-1 with control. salt stress were varied significantly. (germination energy, capacity speed germination) parameters (...

The objective was to evaluate the quality of sunflower seeds classified according their thickness and passed through seeder-fertilizer dosing system under variation travel speed. A lot M734 by passing a set oblong-hole sieves two thicknesses were selected. portion with only commercial classification also reserved, named as non-classified. biometric evaluation done sowing carried out at 5.0, 6.5...

seeds of most herbs such as medicinal plant alyssum bracteatum are known to have a dormancy period in a natural condition. therefore, the identification of factors affecting seed dormancy and germination in order to create optimum conditions for large-scale cultivation of medicinal plants is necessary. the survey was conducted at the research laboratory of biology, university of lorestan in aut...

dormancy breaking of field maple (acer campestre l.) seed, by gibberllic acid (ga3) at 0, 250, 500 and 1000 ppm in 24 and 48 hours and stratification treatments in moist sand under warm (18-20 °c) and cold (2-4°c) conditions were investigated. effects of ga3 and stratification and their interaction on germination percent (gp) and germination speed (gs) were significant. the highest gp occurred ...