effects of different k/ca ratios on the growth, yield and physiological characteristics in galia (cucumis melo var. reticulatus l. naud. cv. galia) grown in hydroponics were evaluated. the experiment was arranged in a completely randomized design of three replicates. melon seeds were sown in a medium containing perlite and vermiculite (3:1 v:v) and then irrigated with water containing different...

background and purpose: according to fao's report, lentil yield in iran is much lower than average yield in the world. this is due to low quality seedling production, low germination and emergence capacity, biotic and abiotic stresses and poor seedling establishment which was forced to looking for a way to enhance these components. seed priming is one of the strategy for increasing the rat...

the seedbed preparation and cereal residue present due to limit of maize (zea mays l.) growing period are a major challenge in double cropping after winter cereals in iran as: shahrekord. in this research, effects of various seedbed preparation methods and crop residuea managements on vegetative growth and yield of forage maize (ksc 704) were studied in a barley-maize double cropping during 200...

This study was carried out on olive trees cv. Amygdalifolia, to investigate the effect of spraying potassium nitrate, KnO3, and zinc sulfate, ZnSo4, on the fruit weight, dimension and volume. The plants were sprayed with 0, 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5% KnO3 and 0, 0.25, 0.50 and 0.75% ZnSO4 and their combinations in August about halfway through the fruit growth period. The highest fruit weight was observe...

Abstract Growing citrus involves cultural treatments such as girdling and foliar potassium treatment to increase fruit size, yield quality. The aim of the study was evaluate effects single double stem girdling, nitrate (KNO 3 ) on leaves combinations these yield, size quality characteristics, leaf chlorophyll concentration nitrogen content, fluorescence (PSII) sugar content ‘Fremont’ mandarin v...

to find the effects of spring foliar application of volck® mineral oil and its combination with fertilizer on the physiological, yield and quality characteristics of pistachio fruit, this research was done in the form of a randomized complete block design (rcbd) of 12 treatments and 3 replications on ohadi pistachio cultivar in chatrud of kerman in 2006 and 2007 for a duration of two years. the...

the effects of an azotobacter chrococum isolate (strain ag11) and vermicompost and their combined effects on a rain-fed winter wheat (var. zagros) nutrient uptake and growth and soil water content were investigated with a farm trial.  the dry matter yield was determined in 5 occasions. gravimetric soil water content, soil microbial respiration and the number of azotobacter were determined at sa...

nitrogen foliar spray is one of the most important components in fertilizing programs for citrus in iran, as it can reduce nitrate leaching. the goal of this research was to determine the most effective concentration of foliar urea application on “thamson navel’’ orange trees, for achieving the highest yield. foliar sprays were carried out, in two stages with total concentrations of 0.4, 0.8 an...

in order to study the sink-source physiological relationship, current photosynthesis, contribution and remobilization of assimilates to grain yield in wheat and triticale genotypes, a field experiment was conducted in iran, ahvaz area on 2003-4. treatments were two bread wheat (simareh and tawer), one durum wheat (showa) and two triticale (juvanillo92 and line 45) genotypes. grain weight change...

abstract silicon (si) is considered one of the beneficial elements for plant, however recent studies show that si plays an important role in plant resistance to environmental stresses , like salinity. an experiment was conducted to study the effect of si and nacl salinity on the growth, yield and fruit quality of strawberry (fragaria × ananassa duch) cv “selva” was grown hydroponically in the c...