Background & Aim: Saffron (Crocus sativus L.) formerly was important in Turkey. Saffron cultivation has been decreased and it is now only cultivated in three villages in this country. It is triploid and exclusively propagated in a vegetative way by corms. In Turkey, saffron is traditionally planted by placing corms in rows randomly without grading or sorting; which results in placement...

introduction saffron as a food, spicy and medicinal plant has more than 62000 ha under cultivation with about 250 tons annual dry stigma production in iran, which includes about 90% of its world production. therefore, this plant has a specific value in agricultural export products of iran (fallahi et al., 2014). due to the important role of saffron in iran’s agroecosystems, the improvement of i...

abstract colchicum kotschyi boiss (colchicaceae) is one of the sixteen iranian native colchicum species, containing considerable amount of colchicine. to study the effect of different nutrient levels on corm yield and colchicine content of colchicum kotschyi boiss under open field soilless culture, an experiment was performed in a randomized complete design at the horticultural research station...

in order to investigate the effects of soil texture and density on corm and flower yield of saffron (crocus sativus l.) an experiment was conducted as a factorial layout based on complete randomized block design with three replications at the faculty of agriculture, ferdowsi university of mashhad during two growing seasons of 2009-2010 and 2010-2011. treatment included 6 soil textures (clay loa...

in order to evaluate the effects of planting date and corm density on yield and some other traits of saffron under climatic conditions of malayer in the west of iran, an experiment was conducted using split plots based on randomized complete blocks design with four replications. different planting dates (15th july, 15th august and 15th september) were allocated in the main plots and different c...