Germination of the medicinal and aromatic plant basil raises interesting questions due to its no seed periodicity dormancy demand, priming could help assure permanent needs for this herb. The study aimed provide an adapted BBCH (Biologische Bundesanstalt Bundessortenamt CHemical industry) scale germination secondary stages sweet Ocimum basilicum L. (var. MVSt). A standardized test was performed...

Sweet pepper (Capsicum annuum L. CV. Keystone Resistant Giant #3) seeds were imbibed (primed) in salt solutions to determine a) what concentrations would inhibit radicle emergence and b) the influence this delay in radicle emergence would have on subsequent germination. Seeds were primed for 17 days at 23C in petri dishes with KNO3, KCl, NaCl, K2SO4, Na2SO4, 1 NaCl: 1 CaCl2 (mol/mol), Ca(NO3)2,...

The effect of seed presowing treatment with polyamines (2.5 mM putrescine, 5.0 mM spermidine and 2.5 mM spermine) on growth and internal levels of different plant growth regulators in two spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivars MH-97 and Inqlab-91 was studied. The primed seeds of each treatment and non-primed seeds were sown in a field in which NaCl salinity of 15 dS m was developed. Alth...

This paper focuses on the automatic extraction of domain-specific sentiment word (DSSW), which is a fundamental subtask of sentiment analysis. Most previous work utilizes manual patterns for this task. However, the performance of those methods highly relies on the labelled patterns or selected seeds. In order to overcome the above problem, this paper presents an automatic framework to detect la...

Word primes have been successfully used in the past to facilitate the processing of other words (semantic priming), but also to modify mental states such as emotion, cognition and motivation (conceptual priming). This work documented that the direction of motivational drive can be successfully changed, but left open whether its magnitude can be influenced as well. To find out, we asked subjects...

Melatonin is a new plant hormone involved in multiple physiological functions plants. Its roles germination, photosynthesis, growth, flowering, fruiting, and senescence are noteworthy. Most studies have focused on its protective role different stress situations, both biotic abiotic. Preliminary data promoting almond seed germination seedling growth presented this work. The germination-promoting...