lisianthus (eustoma grandiflorum cv. ‘mriachii blue’) is one of the most important and marketable cut flowers in the world. however, a relatively limited vase life reduces its marketability. the aim of the present study was to evaluate the effects of essential oils in extending vase life of cut flowers of lisianthus. for this purpose a factorial experiment based on a completely randomized desig...

the effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and plant growth promoting rhizobacteria, with the ability to produce acc deaminase enzyme, on water relationships and agronomic indices of sunflower (helianthus annuus l.) cultivars was investigated. the soil used was of an ec equal to 7.6 ds m-1. a greenhouse factorial experiment on the basis of a completely randomized block design with three levels ...

this experiment was conducted to determine the chemical composition and gross energy of poultry by product meal (pbpm) and the effects of different levels of inclusion of poultry by product meal on broiler chicken performance, serum uric acid and carcass characteristics. three samples of pbpm produced in ardabil province located in northwest of iran, were provided during one month sampling peri...

most essential oil extraction from medicine plant have shown the properties of antimicrobial of parasites, bacteria, fungi and viruses. the fungus from genus of fusarium is one of the prevalent crop disease that infect a wide range of crops. fusarium solani is one of the species of this fungus genus that various crops are host for it. a lab experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of ...

heavy metals contamination is a major environmental problem which requires immediate human attention. the use of plant species to remove pollutants from soils, generally defined as phytoextraction. in order to evaluate phytoextraction of contaminated soils, a pot experiment conducted using two plants barley, canola three kinds of heavy metals (cd, pb, ni) with 3 levels in a completely randomize...

One of the main constraints in Aloe vera production is poor information about optimum nutrients that are helpful for growth and production. The objective of this study was to optimize nutrient solution for Aloe vera cultivation in soilless culture. Therefore, to determine the best nutrients the experiment was conducted in a greenhouse during 2011 in the Agricultural Faculty, University of Guila...