ABSTRACT- This experiment was carried out during the growing seasons of 2010 and 2011 at the Agricultural Research Farm of Bu-Ali Sina University, to study the effect of weed competition on subsequent germination and seed vigour of chickpea. 12 weed interference durations were evaluated in a randomized complete block design with three replications. Experiments consisted of two sets of treatment...

Dormancy breaking and germination requirements were investigated in seeds of Ferula ovina and Ferula gummosa. Seeds of rather species were collected from north and eastern-north rangelands of Iran. Seeds of each of the species were subjected to different treatments including various levels of GA3, chilling and combination of GA3 and chilling (GA-chilling). In contrast to treated seeds, non-trea...

1 Faculty member,Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center of Yazd, Yazd, Iran ABSTRACT. Seed germination and seedling growth are critical stages in the life cycle of a plant, especially under adverse abiotic stresses. Seed germination negatively affected by stress conditions. Seed priming techniques have been used to increase germination characteristics and improve germination uniform...

In the present study, the effect of some pre-treatments implemented on seeds of Oriental hornbeam (Carpinus orientalis), which has wide geographical variation along Turkey on germination percentage values were investigated. For this purpose, 13 different pre-treatments were implemented to seeds obtained from 17 different populations. According to the obtained results (except control seeds), pre...

the response of tomato genotype cal-ji  against five salinity levels (distilled water as control, 25, 50, 75 and 100 mm) were studied at germination and early seedling stages. an experiment with conducted by using a completely randomized design (crd) with three replications. shoot and root length, shoot and root fresh weight, seed vigor, mean germination time, germination percentage and rate me...

The effects of different concentrations (0, 25, 50, 75 and 100%) of aqueous leachate of Achillea biebersteinii on germination characteristics, seedling growth, photosynthetic pigments and protein contents of pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) were investigated through conducting laboratory and greenhouse experiments. Leachate of A. biebersteinii affected negatively germination percentage, germination ...

the germination characteristics and seedling growth of 25 rapeseed cultivars under six levels of salt (naci) stresses including 0, 3, 6, 9, 12 and 15 ds/m were studied. the germination percentage of the rapeseed cultivars did not decrease significantly with increasing salt levels up to 12 ds/m. however, the required time for germination increased with increasing the salt percentage in the growt...

introduction: cleome viscose linn. with a common name as “asian spiderflower”, belongs to the capparidacea family. it is an annual, sticky herb found as a common weed all over the tropical regions of the world. it is a very competitive weed of annual crops. this plant is currently introduced as an invasive plant in soybean fields of golestan province. there is no management recommendation to co...