BACKGROUND: Alternative furrow irrigation method is an effective procedure to reduce the amount of irrigation water in arid areas for economic production. OBJECTIVES: Assessment seed yield, its components and morphological characteristics of corn affected different level of irrigation regime and super absorbent polymer (SAP) under warm and dry climate con...

soil salinity is a serious problem in south khouzestan province. this study was conducted in shawoor agricultural research station, north of the city of ahwaz, on silty-clay soil with 8 dsm-1 salinity during 2006 and 2007. a completely randomized block design arranged in split plots with three replications was used. the plots (planting methods) were: broadcasting + disk harrow (p1), broadcastin...

salinity of water and soil in arid and semi arid regions restricts the growth and yield of crops such as sesame. in order to evaluate yield and yield components of 43 lines and ecotypes of sesame (sesamum indicum l.) under saline condition (ec of irrigation water, 5.2 ds m-1) an experiment was carried out in randomize complete block design with three replications at salinity research station of...

legumes are the second important source of food and consumption of legumes in iran, similar to other countries, mainly due to consumer demand as human food. common bean has first ranked among legumes in the world with an annual production of 20 million tons.  in this research morphological and agronomic characteristics of 89 genotypes of bean) phaseolus vulgaris .l) were evaluated in an augment...

Objective: Chamomile is one of the commercial medicinal plants produced in Ethiopia. Besides, it is priority crop in national aromatic and medicinal plants research project in the country. As chamomile production affected by production techniques this activity was conducted to identify the effect of seed storage duration and seedling raising methods on its seedling establishmen...

maryam sadat salamati1, hossein zeinali2 ,ehdi yousefi3     1- ardestan branch, islamic azad university, ardestan, iran   2- esfahan agricultural and natural research center, isfahan, iran   3- assist. prof, payam noor university, isfahan, iran             received: 10 february 2011 accepted: 26 may 2011     * corresponding author: e-mail: [email protected]       abstract     in order to...

this experiment was carried out to investigate the effect of plant density on growth and seed yield of wheat (kodasht cultivar) under saline soils and rainfed condition inanbarolum region of golestan province in 2008-09. an experiment was conducted in three fields with different salinities (6.73, 9.34 and 11.63 ds m-1) based on randomized complete blocks design. treatments were four plant densi...