water shortage is the most important factors on crop production in the world. several methods of deficit irrigation are solutions for reduction of irrigation water. to understand the effects of conventional deficit irrigation and partial root zone drying treatments on yield, yield components and water use efficiency of sunflower (farrokh cultivar), one study was carried out. the research was co...

The yield curve, which plots the yield of Treasury bonds against their maturity, is one of the most closely watched financial indicators.1 Many market observers carefully track the yield curve’s shape, which is typically upward sloping and somewhat convex. At times, however, it becomes flat or slopes downward (“inverts,” in Wall Street parlance), configurations that many business economists, fi...

21 century. Such an increase in the atmospheric CO may effect plant growth and productivity of crop plants. st 2 A field experiment was conducted with two potato cultivars namely Kufri Surya and Kufri Chipsona-3 grown inside Open Top Chambers (OTCs) at ambient (385±30 μmol mol ) and elevated CO (570±50 μmol mol ), 1 1 2 during rabi season of the year 2009-2010. The experiment was planned in a r...

nilofar rahbar, hossein ali asadi gharneh* department of horticulture, isfahan (khorasgan) branch, islamic azad university, isfahan, iran *corresponding author email: [email protected] received: 3 may 2015                                                                          accepted: 14 june 2015 abstract fertilizer management is an important factor in successful cultivation of pharmaceu...

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...

lentil is considered as salinity sensitive species and is adversely affected in response to the salt stress in terms of growth and yield. this pot experiment was conducted to determine the effect of exogenous salicylic acid (sa) application on physiology, growth, yield and yield components of lentil grown under salt stress in greenhouse conditions, in a factorial arrangement based on randomized...