Many experiments have been carried out to alleviate the negative effect of drought stress and to obtain suitable growth under water deficient condition. Application of plant growth regulators (especially growth retardants) is one of the proposed methods. In a greenhouse experiment using a completely randomized block design with 4 replications at Kerman University Agricultural Department, the ef...

In order to study the effect of seed priming by indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) on germination characteristics of pinto bean under salinity stress, a factorial laboratory experiment, based on completely randomized design with three replications, was carried out at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran, in 2011-2012. Three levels of pretreatment (0, 10 and 20 mg/L I...

This research was performed in 2011 at University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Iran, to evaluate osmotic-stress tolerance, at seedling stage, of rapeseed (Brassica napus L.), as a split plot experiment based on randomized complete blocks design with four replications. Levels of osmotic stress were considered as main factor and twelve rapeseed cultivars were sub-factor, that were evaluated under aquac...

Silicon (Si) is a beneficial nutrient for growth of crops such as cucumber. It seems that Si improves antioxidant capacity of plants and reduces damages induced by environmental stresses and metal toxicity. This research aimed to investigate the interaction of Si and cadmium (Cd) on growth, dry matter yield and catalase (CAT) activity, as an antioxidant enzyme, in cucumber. This hydroponic expe...

To evaluate the allelopathic potential effects of giradol (Chrozophora tinctoria L.) organs on seed germination and seedling growth characteristics of watermelon (Citrullus lanatus L.), two experiments were carried out separately as a factorial in a complete randomized design with 4 replications; this study was carried out at Research Laboratory of Weed and Research Greenhouse of Faculty of Agr...

Most researches on wheat and barley breeding for salt tolerance have focused mainly on excluding Na+ from different tissues but the results of some experiments suggest that contribution of Na+ exclusion to salt tolerance is overshadowed by other physiological responses. Three bread wheat cultivars differing in salt tolerance (Arg, Tajan and Baharan) and one barley cultivar (Nik) were employed t...