Combining ability effects were estimated for different agronomic characters in line × tester crossing program comprising 21 hybrids produced by crossing 7 lines and 3 testers. Parents and hybrids differed significantly for general combining ability (GCA) and specific combining ability (SCA) effects, respectively. The variance due to GCA and SCA showed that gene action was predominantly additive...

Developing sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) seeds were analyzed for their fresh and dry weights, water content and wall components viz. low and high molecular weight xyloglucan and pectic polysaccharides. Seeds from two rows (6th and 12th) differing in their final dry weight and position on the capitulum were selected for the investigation. The dry weight of seed from 6th row was 69 mg while th...

in order to understand the effect of plant density and different fertilizers on sesame (sesamum indicum l.) production, an experiment was conducted as a factorial arrangement based on completely randomized block design with three replications. the experimental treatments were fertilizers in four levels (cow manure (30 t.ha-1), municipal compost (30 t.ha-1), chemical fertilizer (250 kg ammonium ...

in order to evaluate the effect of priming on germination of black cumin under different levels of salinity, a factorial experiment on base of completely randomized design was conducted with three replications. the main factors consisted of five levels of priming (osmopraiming with kno3 (1 and 3%), salicylic acid (sa) (0.2 and 0.5 mm) and a hydropriming)) and four salinity levels (zero, 75, 125...

this study carried out in a factorial layout on completely randomaized block design with three replications, to evaluate the above- and below- ground competition between sesame (sesamum indicum) and pigweed (amaranthus retroflexus), and their impacts on sesame yield and yield component. the experimental treatments were all combination of crop-weed competition (shoot competition, root competitio...

A field experiment was conducted in the Agricultural Research Station, at El-Ghoraieb, Assiut to study dry seed yield performance of two locally adapted cultivars (‘Azmerly’ and ‘Cream 7’) and two line introductions (IT81D-1032 and IT82D-812) of common cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp) grown at three different within-row spaces (20, 30 and 40 cm) and two planting dates in the summer (April 1...

the study was conducted to evaluate the effect of seed priming on root growth of two barley cultivars (hordeum vulgare l.) under salinity stress was performed in phytogel. the treatments included two cultivars of barely (yusuf and maquie), levels of seed priming (control, hydro-priming and priming with 4.35 g l-1 of urea) and four levels of nacl salinity stress (0, 0.2, 0.3 m). the experiment w...

genetic variation of 20 genotypes (15 exotic collected from icarda, and 5 endemic collected from various regions of iran: ardebil, oshnaviyeh, qazvin, shahre kord and mashhad) were studied during the 2007-2008 growing season, using morphological and phenological traits. the resultant data were examined for normality test and were then analyzed according to randomized complete block design (rcbd...