Using bacteria for producing plant nutrients, applying proper methods of soil fertility, and nutrition of plants, other than preserving environment and human health, eliminates unnecessary and wasteful use of chemical fertilizers. Thus, in order to achieve this aim, a greenhouse experiment was carried out, based on completely randomized design with three replications, in Damavand city, during 2...

Drought is one of the most significant a biotic stresses that affecting plant’s growth and development wild barley, H.spontaneum, the progenitor of cultivated barley has a high potential in terms of tolerance to environmental stresses. This research was performed on nine genotypes of Hordeum spontaneum, to study drought tolerance in a split plot experiment based on Randomized Complete Blo...

Nowadays, phenolic compounds and plant growth regulators such as salicylic acid has been prescribed to reduce the adverse effects of different stresses. This greenhouse experiment was conducted in 2013, as a factorial randomized complete block design with 3 replications, to examine the effects of lead and salicylic acid on basil (Ocimum basilicum) plant, cv. Keshkeni Luvelou. Factors included 4...

Salinity is a serious problem for expansion of agriculture, especially in arid and semi-arid regions. On the other hand, various benefits of soilless culture have caused the expansion of this system in these areas. In order to investigate the effect of different levels of salicylic acid and salinity stress on vegetative and physiological characteristics of eggplant, a factorial experiment was c...

Water deficit stress is the main limiting factor of crop growth and yield in arid and semi-arid environments. Hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis L.) is one of the most important medicinal plants that have numerous medical uses. In order to study the effect of drought stress on physiological and morphological traits of Hyssop, an experiment based on randomized completely design was conducted with four...

Cantaloupe is one of the most important of vine crops in Iran that today its yield has been decreased due to reduction in the quantity and quality of water resources and also due to increased soil pH because of bicarbonate ion aggregation in the soil. In order to maintain the production quality of this plant, appropriate crop management techniques are needed. For this purpose, to investigate th...

Drought stress is a major constraint for crop production in arid and semiarid regions, such as Iran. In this study the effect of 5-aminolevolinic acid (ALA), the new plant growth regulator, on Coriander (Corianderum sativum L.) plants under drought stress was studied. The layout was factorial experiment in randomized complete block design (RCBD) with 3 levels of drought stress including stress-...