introduction oat is an important crop which is cultivated in 9,679,190 hectares and produced as much as 22,504,708 ton worldwide (fao. 2011). this crop is used mainly as forage cereal; however, it is also used for human consumption in the form of oatmeal and rolled oats because of high amounts of b and e vitamins (25). regarding to calcareous soils of kermanshah province (iran) and the importan...

terminal drought stress during grain filling period has recently become more common in the semiarid mediterranean regions, where wheat (triticum aestivum) is grown as an important winter cereal crop. the objective of this experiment was to study the effect of terminal drought stress on grain yield, gas exchange variables, and some physiological traits of nine bread wheat cultivars. an experimen...

Increasing the grain yield of cereals, which is stable under unfavorable environmental stress, is a major objective to sustain production and feed the growing world population. Recently, we functionally characterized a receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase, named GROWTH UNDER DROUGHT KINASE (GUDK), revealing its role in regulating grain yield under well-watered and drought stress conditions by trans...

in order to comparison and determination of the best drought tolerance indices in sweet corn hybrids, an experiment was conducted using a randomized complete block design in split plot lay out with three replications at seed and plant improvement institute in karaj in 2006. three irrigation levels (irrigation after 75 as control, 100 and 125 millimeters cumulative evaporation from class a evapo...

knowledge of traits associated with drought tolerance would be useful for developing breeding materials fortarget environments. to study these traits, 119 spring durum wheat breeding lines (bls) from the international maize and wheat improvement center (cimmyt) were evaluated along with local checks (one modern cultivar and three landraces) in three experiments under terminal and non-terminal d...

in order to determine the best index for evaluating maize genotypes, 15 maize inbred lines were evaluated in two planting dates, 6 july to coincide heat stress with pollination time and 27 july as normal planting to avoid high temperature during pollination and grain filling period, using a randomized complete block design with three replications, in shushtar city, in 2007. result showed that i...