background and objectives: seedy watermelon (citrullus lanatus) is a crop that is planted in as a second crop after winter crops some parts of country. this crop is more attended by farmers due to the short time between planting and maturity, low production costs and greater profitability rather than other spring crops. in order to evaluate the interaction effects between weeds and seed priming...

objective: in this study investigated effects of different amounts of pelleted manure with urea and micro elements on yield and seed quality of medicinal plants, pumpkin (cucurbita pepo var. styriaca). methods: the animal manure and urea as pellet with four levels (150 kg urea, 50 kg urea + 3.5 ton animal manure, 100 (kg) urea+ 1.5 ton animal manure and 150 (kg) urea+1.5 ton animal manure) loca...

to study yield and its components by the method of multivariate analysis, 25 genotypes of melon were sown on the basis of square lattice design of 2 replications in zahak agricultural research station. analysis of variance showed that there were significant differences among genotypes in some such characters as: fruit weight, width, and seed weight and yield. simple correlation coefficients sho...

to investigate the effects of methyl jasmonate growth regulators on growth characteristics, fruit number and fruit yield of ‘semsuri’ melon, an experiment at the field of shahid bahonar university was conducted in summer 2012. melon (cv. ‘semsuri’) is widely cultivated in iran and therefore increasing the fruit yield and quality of this cultivar is necessary. some growth regulators including me...

In this study, the effects of different pruning heights and number of branches left were evaluated to determine the most effective pruning height and optimum number of branches to be left after branch thinning to increase seed yield production of Jatropha curcas. The experiment, which was conducted at the MMSU Experimental Station from 2009-2011, was laid-out in Split plot design and was replic...

a study was undertaken to determine the effects of different biofertilizers on growth and seed barley, bahman cultivar in iran. the trial was laid out in rcbd with split plot arrangement having three replications during 2011-12 and at boroujerd, iran. treatments were three nitrogen biofrtilizers (nitroksin, nitrokara and supernitroplass) and three phosphate  biofrtilizers (phosphate barvar2, bi...

BACKGROUND Recent research on nanoparticles in a number of crops has evidenced for enhanced germination and seedling growth, physiological activities including photosynthetic activity and nitrogen metabolism, mRNA expression and protein level, and also positive changes in gene expression indicating their potential use in crop improvement. We used a medicinally rich vegetable crop, bitter melon,...

in order to study the effect of mineral nutrient and salicylic acid on the fruit yield and yield components of coriander, a study was conducted in experimental field of gorgan university during 2007. the experiment was laid out in randomized block design with ten treatments (salicylic acid, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, zinc, iron, boron, molybdenum and control) in three replicati...