abstract supplementary irrigation for suitable crops production in most area of iran is necessary. in order to study supplementary irrigation effects on yield and yield components of three lentil (lens culinaris medik.) cultivars, an experiment was carried out as split block based on randomized complete block design with three replications at research field, college of agriculture, ferdowsi uni...

Background: In rainfed agriculture, lentil is considered an important legume crop. But in conditions adequate soil moisture condition a major obstacle that leads to reduced germination per cent, slow down growth of the seedlings and finally reduction yield. Seed priming alternative which can improve percentage seedling establishment lentil. Methods: The present work, deals with (Lens culinaris ...

The development of transgressive phenotype in the segregating populations has been speculated to contribute to niche divergence of hybrid lineages, which occurs most frequently at larger genetic distances. Wild Lens species are considered to be more resistant against major biotic and abiotic stresses than that of the cultivated species. In the present study, we assessed the comparative agronomi...

The present works were carried out to determine the impact of different municipal solid waste compost (mswc) soil extracts (Tap water, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30% and distilled water (control) obtained from mswc (degraded soil) and different mixing ratio of mswc and distilled water on the percentage of relative seed germination (RSG%), vigor index, root length, shoot length of soya bean (Glycin...

Genotype x environment interaction was evaluated under eight environments during lentil growing season of 2013/14 and 2014/15 for grain yield and their component characters of twenty one promising genotypes selected from previous trial of lentil. The variances estimated due genotype, environment and genotype x environment interaction were found to be different significantly for all the characte...

An antagonism between cytokinins and growth inhibitors has been shown in germination (4, 5, 9, 12). Cytokinin-inhibitor antagonism has also been observed at the level of enzyme synthesis (6, 13). Based on a number of studies in which exogenous hormones were used to control germination, it has been hypothesized that in the regulation of germination, gibberellin is the primary stimulus and that t...

Broomrapes are obligate root parasitic weeds and major constraint to many dicotyledoncrops especially in Mediterranean agricultural lands. Due to the fact that no single controlmeasure is able to control broomrapes in the field satisfactorily, integrated management isrecommended in general. The use of of trap crops or catch crops is an important strategy forcontrolling the weeds; and allelopath...

Terminal velocity of chickpea, rice and lentil seeds has been experimentally measured by suspending the seeds in an air stream. In order to assessment the effects of seed size and moisture content on terminal velocity a completely randomized design in factorial experiment was carried out. The results showed that size and moisture content have significant effects (p<0.01) on terminal velocityin ...

Developing an extruded lentil analog is our aim. Lentil analog with six formulations were produced using a pilot-scale single (SS) and twin screw (TS) extruders. Texture analysis of lentil analogs prepared for consumption revealed that the products formulated with 60:40 and 70:30 soy: wheat ratios exhibited a significantly higher hardness, adhesiveness and lower springiness as compared to all o...