experiments were conducted at the horticulture research farm of horticulture department, bangabandhu sheikh mujibur rahman agricultural university (bsmrau), salna, gazipur during december, 2007 to may, 2009 to investigate the effect of bulb cutting and potting media on propagation of hippeastrum. the bulb cutting significantly influenced all the parameters except days required to first leaf eme...

in order to study of genetic variation and identification of yield components in chickpea, a trial consists of 96 accessions of chickpea received from iranian gen bank (seed and plant improvement institute) along with five checks (arman, bivanij, jam, hashem and ilc-482) was conducted based on an augmented design in 2005-06 cropping season at research farm of agricultural college, razi universi...

hamid reza arab1, hossein afshari1*, morteza sam daliri2, ghanbar laei1,   seyyed rasoul toudar2   1- faculty of agriculture, damghan branch, islamic azad university, damghan, iran   2- faculty of agriculture, chalous branch, islamic azad university, chalus, iran     received: 1august 2011 accepted: 23 november 2011       *corresponding author: email: [email protected]     abstract     in...

African yam bean (Sphenostylis stenocarpa) is an underexploited legume with the potential of becoming an alternative food staple to alleviate the problem of food security. An assessment was carried out on the growth and yield of AYB affected by Telfairia mosaic virus (TeMV) Infection. Telfairia mosaic virus caused severe mosaic, leaf distortion and malformation on AYB. Analyses of results revea...

abstract rosa damascena has attracted considerable attention in horticulture, biochemistry and in pharmacology because of the fragrance of the flowers and the high content of its bio-logically active substances. there is limited information available on factors controlling flower yield and its components. the present study reports an investigation on flower yield and the various factors affect...

in order to study the correlation between morphophenological and quantitative traits with yield and to determine the most important traits for yield, 600 ecotypes of mung bean were evaluated in normal and limited irrigation conditions through augmented design. computation of correlation coefficients showed that in two conditions, number of pods per plant, harvest index and biological yield had ...