Studies were conducted to determine the effects of spent reagent from air pollution control scrubbers used at a brick manufacturing facility on emergence, growth, and physiological responses of corn and hybrid poplar plants. Scrubber by-product was obtained from General Shale Brick, Louisville, KY. Potting substrate was weighed and quantities of scrubber by-product were added to the substrate t...

this study was conducted to compare the methods of seed bedpreparation in rangelands of khash region in sistan and baluchestan province iniran. a split plot design was conducted based on randomized complete blockdesign with three replications in 1999. five seed bed preparation methods wereused as main plot as: 1) seed sown by passing livestock. 2) seed sown machinery.3) seeds sown as drilled in...

The essential oil extracted from mustard (Brassica rapa) seeds was evaluated for its effect on suppression of Rhizoctonia solani growth in vitro, and in field soils, for reducing saprophytic substrate colonization and seedling damping off and blight using snap beans as indicator plant, the in vitro growth was completely inhibited at a concentration of 50 μl/l. The saprophytic substrate coloniza...