Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) is one of the important oilseed and bio-energy crops. All safflower cultivars in world have diploid genomes (2n= 2x= 24). In this research, autotetraploidy induction was performed by colchicine treatments to emerging shoot tips at cotyledonary stage. As a result flow cytometric analyses C2 progenies, autotetraploids (4x= 48) had DNA content 4.88 pg 2C-1, whil...

Three-year-old Angus x Gelbvieh beef cows nutritionally managed to achieve a BCS of 4 +/- 0.07 (479.3 +/- 36.3 kg of BW) or 6 +/- 0.07 (579.6 +/- 53.1 kg of BW) at parturition were used in a 2-yr experiment (n = 36/yr) to determine the effects of prepartum energy balance and postpartum lipid supplementation on cow and calf performance. Beginning 3 d postpartum, cows within each BCS were assigne...

Two experiments were conducted to determine the effect of maternal lipid supplementation on the immune response to antigenic challenge in suckling calves. In Exp. 1, beginning 1 d postpartum, 18 primiparous crossbred beef cows were fed Foxtail millet hay and a low-fat (control) supplement or a supplement containing cracked, high-linoleate safflower seed in individual feeding stanchions until d ...

in order to study the yield and growth indices of spring safflower as double cropping, an experiment was carried out in 2007 at the research farm of faculty of agriculture, yasouj university, iran. the experiment was a factorial based on randomized complete block design with three replications. factors included of combination of four sowing dates (may 16, june1, june 16 and july 2) and four cul...

Seeds of seven different genotypes underutilised oil crop Carthamus tinctorius L. (Asteraceae) from alternative species collection the Institute Field and Vegetable Crops (Novi Sad, Serbia), were analysed for their protein, oil, fatty acids, tocopherols total phenolics contents, with a view to test diversity potential as an source these valuable compounds. tested safflower had protein (determin...