Objective: In a previous work, we showed that asafoetida essential oil (AEO), from oleo-gum resin of Ferula asafoetida L. from the Apiaceae family, has a vasodilatory effect. This effect was both endothelium-dependent and endothelium-independent. The present study was designed to determine whether potassium channels and intracellular calcium release contribute to AEO-i...

crop residues management is one of the most important factors to sustain agro-ecosystems. application of plant residues as organic fertilizers has functional role on the amount of soil elements, their availability for crops and finally yield obtained. in order to investigate the effect of different crop residues and their management on providing wheat potassium requirement, a four-replicated fi...

nonexchangeable soil-k release rate can significantly affect k dynamics and it's bioavailability during plant growth. in this study, twelve soil samples taken from different wheat cropping regions of iran were incubated with nabph4 to (i) investigate the kinetics of nonexchangeable k release and (ii) to compare the ability of various kinetic equations (zero-, first- and second-order, parab...

Najafi-Ghiri M., Abtahi A. (2013): Potassium fixation in soil size fractions of arid soils. Soil & Water Res., 8: 49–55. Amounts of potassium (K) fixed in soil fractions of 10 calcareous soils of southern Iran were measured to evaluate the contributions of different soil size fractions to K fixation. Soil particles were fractionated after dispersion of the soils with an ultrasonic probe. Potass...

That some of the potassium added in the form of fertilizers or otherwise becomes fixed in the soil had been known for a long time. With the clarification of the phenomena of base exchange in soils by Gedroiz it was revealed that the K-ion is fixed in the exchange complex not only in replaceable but also in non-replaceable form. A review of the work in this connection may be found in the paper b...

Potassium has an important role in the process of plant growth, but its presence and availability soil are limited, because potassium is easily lost flows out by water. Increasing efficiency fertilization can be pursued through formulation fertilizer form slow-release (SRF) using bentonite. This study aimed to determine release chloride into after bonding with acid-activated bentonite coated ch...