seven maize inbred lines were crossed in a complete diallel cross design at the seed and plant improvement institute, karaj, iran, during the 2006 growing season. the parents and 42 f1 hybrids were grown in the research field of islamic azad university of firoozabad, firoozabad, iran, using a randomized complete block design (rcbd) with three replications, during the 2007 growing season. the ha...

in order to investigate the effect of vermicompost (vc) application on amount of micro elements in soil and plant organs of the medicinal plant of borage (borago officinalis), an experiment was carried out in split plot based on complete randomized block design with three replications in the research farm of the sari university of agricultural science and natural resources. fertilizer treatment...

this experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of nursery establishment under plastic cover on yield of some rice cultivars at lordegan region in 2007. experimental design was a split plot with a randomized complete block with three replications. four rice cultivars (hashemi, hasani, saleh and native) were seeded at three seedling date (14 april, 5 may and 15 may). two first planting date...

to estimate combining ability and the model of gene action for some quantitative characters, 5 different rice genotypes were used for producing a half diallel hybrids. to consider 7 quantitative traits, hybrids and their corresponding parents were evaluated based on a randomized complete block design with three replications at the rice research station of amol, iran in 2007. mean squares regard...

to investigate the effects of drought stress and different combinations of animal manure with super absorbent polymer on yield and yield components of corn, a split plots design was conducted based on a randomized complete block design with 3 replications in fars agricultural research center in 2007. irrigation treatments were assigned as the main factor in three levels: 70, 105 and 140 mm evap...

a two years (2006–2007 and 2007-2008) experiment was conducted at national salinity research center, yazd, to evaluate salt-tolerant genotypes of brassica napus, b. rapa and b. juncea. to screen genotypes in the first growing season, 58 genotypes were grown under two irrigation water salinity levels of 2 and 12 ds m-1 in an augmented randomized complete block design with six replicated checks. ...

for evaluation the effect of morpho-physiological parameters on yield and yield components of barley genotypes, an experiment was conducted in a randomized complete block design in 4 replication in gorgan agriculture science and nature resource field experimental during 2006-2007. the trait was 10 barley genotypes: bomi, torkaman, eize, siah, sahra, 1-yeknavakht, 14g, 11g, 5g and 15g. the resul...

objective: taro (colocasia esculenta l. schott) is a perennial root crop that belongs to araceace family.  it is widely cultivated as a staple food in africa, asia and pacific islands. despite its importance, there is limited information on many aspects of the crop. in order to obtain data that can support improved and sustainable taro production, a field trial was conducted to study the effect...