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...

A laboratory research carried out to evaluate the effect of drought stress on germination characteristics in two 'Indian' and 'Isfahanian' populations of Fenugreek. This experiment performed in a factorial experiment based on a completely randomized design with three replicates. Four levels of drought stress applied by using polyethylene glycol 6000. Percentage of germination, germination rate,...

Salinity is one of the most important factors limiting agricultural production. Cotton, as an oil-fiber plant, is one of the most important industrial plants and is sensitive to salinity, especially at germination and seedling stages. Therefore, in this study, 14 allotetraploid varieties of commercial and local cotton were selected. The study was carried out as factorial with a completely rando...

One of the most important limiting factors of crop growth in the arid and semi-arid regions is water deficit. Mycorrhizal fungi is one of the most important microorganisms in the rhizosphere. The effects of these fungi apply via changes on some of the characteristics of roots and nutrients uptake in host plants under drought conditions. In order to evaluate the effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal ...

In order to determine the best nutrient solution and potato cultivar for minituber production in aeroponics and comparison with classic hydroponics, a factorial experiment with three factors of culture system (aeroponics and hydroponics), nutrient solution (Chang et al., APCoAB and commercial nutrient solution of Isfahan), and different potato cultivars (Marfona, Santana and Moren) was carried ...

Salinity is one of the most important restricting factors for plant growth and production around the world. The use of plant growth regulators has been expanded for improving salt tolerance in recent decades. In this investigation the effect of gibberellic acid (GA) and paclobutrazol (GA inhibitors) were evaluated for ameliorating negative effects of salt stress in sweet sorghum. After germinat...