in order to study the effect of irrigation interval, n fertilizer and superabsorbent on yield and qualitative traits of sesame (sesamum indicum l.), a split-split-plot experiment was coducted in a farm in khusf of birjand, iran in 2009 on the basis of a randomized complete block design. the main plot was devoted to irrigation interval at three levels of 6, 12 and 18 days, the sub-plot was devot...

this research was investigated to study relationship among seed yield, seed yield components and morphological traits and their direct and indirect effects on seed yield of 100 safflower genotypes in two water environments (normal and drought stress) at research farm of isfahan university of technology during 2012. seed yield had positive correlation with number of head per plant, seed per head...

abstract in order to provide optimal yield and quality of tomato fruit (lycopersicon esculentum mill. cv. beril), different growing media for soilless culture of tomato plants were studied. seedling of tomato (lycopersicon esculentum mill, cv. beril ) were cultivated in perlite, mixture of perlite with nh4-zeolite and with raw zeolite (z:p ratio 10v:90v) and fed by two nutrient sources: a) comp...

background & aim: milk thistle [silybum marianum (l.) gaertn] is an annual or biennial plant, native to the mediterranean area, which has spread in north and south of iran. a fruit of milk thistle contains a relatively high amount (approx. 20%) of oil, which exhibits wound-healing, anti-burn, and hepatoprotective properties. experimental: in this research, a pot experiment was conducted usi...

in order to study the effects of different levels of animal manure and bulb weights on growth criteria, yield components, seed yield and essential oil yield of caraway, an experiment was conducted as factorial based on a randomized complete block design with three replications at the agricultural research station, ferdowsi university of mashhad, during two growing seasons of 2012-2013 and 2013-...

. in order to study the variation for seed yield and its components, 200 accessions of alfalfa (medicago sativa l.) were sown as drilled plots, using alpha designs/unreplicated with two repeated entries with in all of 10 blocks under dry land farming system in kabodarahang research station, hamadan, iran, during 2010 to 2011. data were analyzed for descriptive statistics, correlation, regressio...

the present experiment was carried out to assess the general combining ability (gca) and specific combining ability (sca) of six important commercial cultivars of gossypium hirsutum l. of venezuela, viz., ‘deltapine 16’, ‘tamcot-sp-21’, ‘cabuyare’, ‘stoneville’, ‘ospino’ and ‘acala 90-1’ and their 15 f1 hybrids, respectively. the data were analyzed using griffing’s model i method ii. significan...