Plant growth chambers produce controlled environments, which are crucial in making reproducible observations in experimental plant biology research. Commercial plant growth chambers can provide precise controls of environmental parameters, such as temperature, humidity, and light cycle, and the capability via complex programming to regulate these environmental parameters. But they are expensive...

ten gerbera cultivars (‘labinel’, ‘lilla’, ‘alp’, ‘alberino’, ‘bonnie’, ‘avemaria’, ‘mammut’, ‘lexus’, ‘‘terramixa ’ & ‘sarolta’) were evaluated for their growth, yield and quality characteristics under protected conditions during 2011. among the cultivars studied, there were highly significant variations observed for growth, yield and quality parameters. longest stalk length (60.3 cm) was ...

basil (ocimum basilicum l.) is a medicinal plant belonging to the mint dark, with fresh vegetables and spices are used. nowadays the use of chemical inputs in farming causing severe environmental problems such as water pollution, soil and soil fertility is decreasing. sources rather than chemical, biological resources important for the preservation of fertility and biological activity, improvin...

abstract in order to study salt stress, calcium and potassium effects and type of application on sorghum plant, a field experiment was arranged in randomized complete block in split plot design at the research field of center of excellence for special crops, ferdowsi university of mashhad at 2008. experimental treatments were included two levels of salinity (5 and 10 ds.m-1) as main plots and f...

Ten gerbera cultivars (‘Labinel’, ‘Lilla’, ‘Alp’, ‘Alberino’, ‘Bonnie’, ‘Avemaria’, ‘Mammut’, ‘Lexus’, ‘‘Terramixa ’ & ‘Sarolta’) were evaluated for their growth, yield and quality characteristics under protected conditions during 2011. Among the cultivars studied, there were highly significant variations observed for growth, yield and quality parameters. Longest stalk length (60.3 cm) was exhi...

in order to investigate the effects of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (pgprs) inoculation on the growth, yield and quality of eesetial oils of summer savory (satureja hortensis l .) a pot experiment based on randomized complete block design with three replication were conducted in field of research institute of forests and rangelands at 2012. bacterial treatments include suspension of thr...

trichoderma spp. are known as efficient plant growth promoting agents. hence, enrichment of soil by appropriate population of trichoderma is useful and important for effective plant growth promote. present study aimed to investigate the plant growth promoting effects of five strains of the genus trichoderma species include: trichoderma harzianum tr6, t. harzianum t22, t. asperellum t34, t. atro...

phytoremediation is an emerging environmental-friendly technology that can be a promising solution to remediate oil-polluted soils. the impact of high amount of hydrocarbons on growth characteristics of burningbushand common flax was evaluated in this survey. the influence of organic fertilizers was also assessed on growth of plant species in oil-contaminated soil. soil samples in which plants ...

this study was undertaken to identify morphological changes in young seedlings of 5 iranian almond species (prunus dulcis, p. eburnea, p. eleagnifolia, p. haussknechti, and p. scoparia) under polyethylene glycol-induced drought stress. drought stress caused a significant reduction in plant growth parameters such as fresh and dry weights of plant organs, leaf number, total leaf area, and leaf re...

the effects of three arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (amf) species (glomus versiforme, claroideoglomus etunicatum and rhizophagus intraradices) were studied on the growth parameters and nutrient uptake of three apple rootstocks (m.9, m.7 and mm.106). the soil medium contained a high level of calcium carbonate (38.65%). the results showed that amf inoculation could increase almost all growth parame...