In recent decade, establish and maintenance of turf grasses is faced with serious doubts due to reduction of precipitation and water resources. So, identification of drought-resistant native and rangeland species, and introducing them as turf grass not only is effective in reducing water consumption, but also help to preserve the genetic resources of the country. In order to evaluate the usabil...

In order to study the effect of zinc (Zn) nutrition on relative tolerance of olive (Olea europea L.) seedlings to salinity, a factorial pot experiment was conducted, based on completely randomized design with three replications, during fall 2013. One-year seedlings of two olive cultivars (‘Frontoio’ and ‘Conservolea’) were planted in 10-litre plastic pots containing sand and perlite (1:1 ratio)...

Magnesium plays a key role in photosynthesis, partitioning of carbohydrates, phloem export of sucrose, photo-oxidation and leaf chlorosis of plants. In order to evaluate the effect of various concentrations of Mg (0 (control), 2 and 4 mM) in the nutrient solution and root zone temperature (RZT) (15, 25 and 35 ºС) on growth, yield and physiological properties in cucumber (Cucumis sativus L. cv. ...

Nitrogen deficit is one of the most limiting nutrients for plant production. Therefore, identifying diazotrophic indigenous inoculants to promote nitrogen fixation have a great importance in agriculture. In the current study, a number of rhizobacteria isolated from nodules of different legumes cultured in Kerman (IRAN) province. Isolates were screened for their ability to grow on N-free media. ...

A completely randomized factorial experiment was set up with 16 treatments and three replicates to study the effect of nitrogen and boron on yield, shoot and root dry weights and leaf concentration of nutrient elements in hydroponically grown tomato in greenhouse of Agricultural College of Zanjan University in 2008. In this experiment, tomato seed of Rio Grande Ug was selected and simple and i...

the present study investigated construct equivalence of multiple choice (mc) and constructed response (cr) item types across stem and content equivalent mc and cr items (item type ‘a’), non-stem-equivalent but content equivalent mc and cr items (item type ‘b’), and non-stem and non-content equivalent mc and cr items (item type ‘c’). one hundred seventy english-major undergraduates completed mc ...

In this research the effect of four concentrations of nickel and copper (25, 50, 100, and 200 µM) on root and shoot length, fresh and dry weight, leaf surface, and photosynthetic pigments (Chlorophyll a, b and carotenoids), sugar, malondialdehyde, hydrogen peroxide content and antioxidant enzyme activity (CAT and APX) in Okra plants were evaluated. The results showed that in those plants which ...