Foliar spraying of a small amount of micronutrients (iron and zinc) may increase the yield of anise(Pimpinella anisum L.), an anethole-rich important medicinal plant. In order to evaluate the effect of iron (Fe) and zinc (Zn) spraying (0, 2, 4, and 6 g l-1) on the nutrient contents and the essential oils of anise, a factorial experiment was conducted based on a randomized complete block design ...

In this study the symbiotic interactive effect of different Bradyrhizobium japonicum strains with six soybean cultivars were evaluated under fi eld conditions. The rhizobial strains ASR011, USDA123 and CB1809 respectively showed hostcultivar specifi city with JS335, Lee and Bragg. B. japonicum ASR011 recorded the highest nodulation and nitrogenase activity with all the studied cultivars. Genera...

Changes in peroxidase activity was analyzed in developing mustard (Brassica juncea) seed. The activity in soluble and bound fraction was assayed with three hydrogen donors viz. ferulic acid, caffeic acid and chlorogenic acid. Growth was measured in terms of dry weight and water content. Seed dry weight data was fitted to a cubic polynomial equation. The rate of dry matter accumulation was calcu...

effect of different amounts of sulfur fertilizer (0, 50, 100, 150, 200, 250 kg/ha) and 200 kg/ha of thiobacillus inoculant on yield, quality and storability of two edible onion cultivars red rey and white qom were investigated. the experiments were conducted at experimental field and laboratories of the department of horticulture, seed and plant improvement institute, karaj, iran in 2007-08 cro...

Stay-green (SG) is a term used to describe genotypes that have delayed leaf senescence as compared reference genotypes. SG could be favorable for grain yield, silage yield and quality, double exploitation (grain feed stover bioenergy), stress resistance, etc. However, some studies show contradictory results regarding the influence of or in uptake remobilization nutrients moisture grain. This ex...

selenium is an essential element for humans, therefore, adding it to plants is convenient for biofortification. thus, the aim of this work was to analyze experimentally the ability of sodium selenite to increase the concentration of se and modify the antioxidant activity in tomato plants. we used plants of the toro hybrid variety and applied three treatments: 0, 2 and 5 mg l-1 of selenium as so...