environmental stresses especially drought stress affect on the different aspects of plant growth and cause decrease and delay in germination, decrease of aerial parts growth and decrease in dry matter production. in order to study the effect of drought stress on germination and seedling growth of roselle (hibiscus sabdarifa) medicinal plant, this experiment was conducted in a randomized complet...

Antifungal activity of water soluble exudates of pea leaves was assayed. Exudates of different nodal leaves were collected by dipping them in sterilized distilled water for different length of time and conidial germination of four non-pathogenic to pea fungi (Alternaria solani, Curvularia lunata, Helminthosporium penniseti and H. echinocloa) and one pea pathogenic to pea fungus (Erysiphe pisi) ...

The timing of germination is a key life-history trait that may strongly influence plant fitness and that sets the stage for selection on traits expressed later in the life cycle. In seasonal environments, the period favourable for germination and the total length of the growing season are limited. The optimal timing of germination may therefore be governed by conflicting selection through survi...

Recently the biostimulatory role of physical methods have been observed in major agricultural crop plants, He-Ne laser is one of the most significant biophysical method for enhancing not only seed germination but also plant growth and development. Seeds of wheat cultivars from Kazakhstan (cultivars; aksay, kazakhstanskaya-10 and eretrospermum-350) and from Egypt (cultivar; sakha-168) were expos...

Orthodox seeds may present ditTerences in germination due to severa] reasons. Poor seed germination Iimits the use of different species for culture or p]ant breeding. In this work, we tested treatments for improving germination in two cultivars of common eggplant (Solanum melongena) and in six accessions of the related species S. macrocarpon, S. aethiopicum, and S. incanum. With the exception o...

Weed suppression is one of the several benefits achieved by soil incorporation of crop residues and such suppression is believed to be allelopathic in nature. The allelopathic potential of different crop residues: viz. sorghum (Sorghum bicolor [L.] Moench), sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.), brassica (Brassica campestris L.) was evaluated in rice (Oryza sativa L.) and jungle rice (Echinochloa co...

UNLABELLED When nutrients are scarce, Bacillus species form metabolically dormant and extremely resistant spores that enable survival over long periods of time under conditions not permitting growth. The presence of specific nutrients triggers spore germination through interaction with germinant receptors located in the spore's inner membrane. Bacillus licheniformis is a biotechnologically impo...

asafoetida is one of important medicinal plant of the apiaceae family that due to over harvesting from natural pastures has been endanger to elimination. knowledge and studies of plant biology and germination behavior can lead to the development of its cultivation and protection in the natural pastures. this experiment was conducted to evaluate asafoetida seeds germination on the response to te...