Extended Abstract Introduction: Today, seed priming is widely used to improve seed germination in a wide range of plant species. As a result of seed pre-treatment, several molecular and biochemical changes occur, including increased macromolecule synthesis, enzyme activity and formation of different metabolites. Enzymatic and metabolic activities, synthesis of proteins in quantitative and qual...

In order to study the effects of different levels of salinity on germination components of wheat cultivars, a factorial experiment was conducted based on a completely randomized design with three replications. Experimental factors were wheat cultivars at eight levels (Saysons, Gaspard, Finkan, MV-17, Chamran, Sardari, Atila-4 and Azar-2) and six levels of salinity (0, 25, 50, 100, 150 and 200 m...

  Seed priming is the most important technique for increasing the germination power. This study was conducted to investigate the effects of halopriming and hydropriming on improvement of seed germination in black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) in a completely randomized design with 4 replications. Halopriming treatments of KNO3 with concentrations including (100, 250, 500, 750 mM) and hydropr...

Drought stress in germination stage is one of most important factor that limit yield and growth of lentil in Iran. The heterotrophic seedling growth can be considered as the product of three components: initial seed weight, the fraction of seed reserves which are mobilized, and the conversion efficiency of mobilized seed reserves to seedling tissues. In order to investigate the effect of drough...

In order to study the effects of hormone and hydroprimng on seed germination, growth and antioxidant enzymes activity of borage seedling, an experiment was carried out based on completely randomized design with three replications at the University of Mohaghegh Ardabili in 2015. The Experimental treatments were seed priming with gibberellin (50, 100, 150 ppm for 12, 24, 48 hours) and salicylic a...