introduction legumes after cereals are the second source of human food and in iran they are the second most important food after the wheat. legumes protein is four times as much as that of grains and 10 to 20 times as much as that of glandular plants. in addition, beans are planted in iran in a wide area and knowing optimal farming factors can be an important step in increasing them. one of the...

A rice introgression line, NIL-SS1, and its recurrent parent, Teqing, were used to investigate the influence of the introgression segment on plant growth. The current research showed NIL-SS1 had an increased flag leaf width, total leaf area, spikelet number per panicle and grain yield, but a decreased photosynthetic rate. The metabolite differences in NIL-SS1 and Teqing at different development...

Sixty nine pearlmillet germplasm entries of diverse origin were evaluated for seven quantitative characters and three qualitative characters for their per se performance, variability and genetic divergence. Wider variability was observed for fodder yield and its associating characters along with crude protein content. The GCV estimates were observed to be high for number of leaves per plant, nu...

Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi play a prominent role in plant nutrition by supplying mineral nutrients, particularly inorganic phosphate (Pi), and also constitute an important carbon sink. AM stimulates plant growth and development, but the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. In this study, Medicago truncatula plants were grown with Rhizophagus irregularis BEG141 inoculum (AM), mo...

An experiment was conducted to find out the effect of INM on vegetative growth, flowering and fruiting of Andrographis paniculata. The experiment was followed in a randomized block design with 8 treatments. The different treatments were T1no treatment, T2vermicompost, T3-biofertilizers, T4-chemical fertilizers, T5biofertilizers + vermicompost, T6biofertilizers + chemical fertilizers, T7chemical...