This experiment was designed for easy and accurate estimation of corn plant leaf area with multilayer perceptron (MLP) neural network and conducted at Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran in 2013. Three plant densities (75, 85 and 95 thousand plants/ha) and five genotypes (Persia 454, 484, 565, 626 and 647) were considered as treatments. Samplings were conducted a...

This research was carried out to evaluate the effect of two mycorrhiza species on growth, yield and oil content of geranium under salinity stress. The experiment was done at research greenhouse of Faculty of Agriculture, Lorestan University, Iran, in 2014. Four levels of substrate (sterilised and non-sterilised control soil and sterilised soil inoculated with Glomus mosseae or G. intraradices),...

most of the verbal constructions of harzani dialect have got inflectional affixes. the majority of the constructions are made up vy adding a specific verbal affix to the verbal stem (infinitive without infinitive marker). only a few number of them is formed by adding a verbal affix to the past participle of the verb. there are specific rules for the formation of different verbal types. there is...

Lisianthus is a slow-growing flowering plant whose seed germination and growth is a challenge in the tropics. Due to the marketability of this type of cut flower, this study was performed in two experiments to investigate the effect of seaweed extract (SWE) and LED on the growth of seedlings of two cultivars of lisianthus (namely Ariana and Mariachi) and its effect on flowering as a factorial e...

     Confectionery sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) is one of the valuable crops which less is known about its variability. Fifty sunflower populations have been gathered from different regions of Iran and evaluated for agro-morphological traits in completely randomized design with 10 repetitions under pot conditions. The twenty traits including days from planting to flowering, days from planti...

In order to investigate the effect of form of nitrogen (N) [ammonium (NH4) and nitrate (NO3)] and calcium (Ca) levels of nutrition solution on quantitative and qualitative yield of cut rose flower (Rosa hybrida L.), cv. Vendentta, in soilless culture condition, an experiment was conducted in greenhouse of the National Ornamental Plants Research Station of Mahallat. The experiment was factorial,...