Temperature changes occur in nature faster than other stressors. Plants due to inability to move and change their position, are exposed to extensive variations in daily or seasonal temperature, and therefore, should quickly and effectively adapt to temperature stress. In order to study the effects of heat stress on physiological traits of forage maize hybrids, a factorial split plot experiment ...

to assess required growing degree days (gdd) for phenological stages of four clover species in different planting dates a field experiment was conducted in 2010-11 and 2011-12 cropping seasons in seed and plant improvement institute in karaj, iran. three planting dates (14 september, 28 september and 13 october) and six clover varieties were assigned to main plots and sub-plots, respectively, a...

introduction intercropping plays an important role in agriculture because of beneficial interactions. intercropping of legumes and cereals is an old practice in tropical agriculture dating back to ancient civilization. cereals and other plant intercrops could substantially increase forage quantity and quality and decrease the requirement for protein supplements. intercropping of cereals and oth...

in order to evaluate the quantitative factors in fox tail millet (setaria italica l.) under three stages of growth, an experiment was conducted in birjand during spring and summer of 2010. the preliminary objective was evaluation of fox tail physiological characteristics on animals that feed them. planting of foxtail millet was performed according to local practices and endemic acknowledge. sam...

in order to evaluate effects of plant density and planting date on quality properties of grass pea (lathyrus sativus l.), a factorial experiment was conducted during 2008, based on complete randomized block design with four replications in research farm of faculty of agriculture, the university of birjand, birjand, iran. plants were planted at march 5 and 20, and apr 3, with 30, 40, 50 and 60 p...

in order to evaluate quantity and quality hairy vetch (vicia villosa l.) yield in the pure and mixed cropping with barley (hordeum vulgare l.) and triticale (triticosecale) the experiment was conducted at agricultural research station (khodabande) under dryland conditions during 2006 -2008. field experiments were arranged in a randomized complete blocks design with 9 treatments in four replicat...

efficient use of natural and biological cycles such as nitrogen fixation by legumes may stimulate yield of non-legumes crops in an intercropped system. in order to evaluate spring barley (h) and annual alfalfa (m) intercropping, a study was conducted in the research field of university of tehran (located in karaj) during 2009-2010 growing season. in this research, a randomized complete block de...

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in brown midrib (BMR) sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench.) · sudangrass (Sorghum sudanense Piper) hybrids (SxS) as a replacement for silage corn (Zea mays L.) in the north-eastern USA. Recent studies suggest it is suitable for both rotational grazing and as a hay crop and could compete with corn harvested for silage in years when wet spring c...