Centella asiatica, is well known to be a valuable medicinal plant for producing valuable compounds such as asiaticoside, asiatic acid, madcasoside and madcasic acid. The plant is believed to improve memory, lower blood pressure, be a strong antioxidant and anticancer. Therefore, it is important to optimize tissue culture methods in order to facilitate the extraction of medicinal compounds, gene...

Heat stress is one of the most important weather phenomena that has caused destructive damaged many on agricultural crops, such as strawberries. For this purpose, five temperature treatments (control (23±2 days/16±2 nights), 30, 35, 40 and 45 °C) and two levels of mycorrhizal fungi (presence Funeliformis mosseae or absence) and tow cultivars of strawberry (Paros and Queen Elisa) as a factorial ...

In recent years, in the world and in Iran as well, attention to Lisianthus flowers has been such that its production has increased significantly. With the increase in the production of Lisianthus cut flowers, attention to nutrition and application of treatments to improve the growth and storability of this flower is felt more than ever. For this purpose, the effect of karrikin, salicylic acid a...

Enhanced soil fertility results in plant tolerance against environmental stresses, including drought stress. In order to investigate the effect of different fertilizers on biochemical, quantitative and qualitative characteristics of white radish under drought stress conditions, a split plot experiment was conducted as a randomized complete block design in 2020-21 at University of Hormozgan. Exp...

Analysis of performance and survival rate of different oak species in severe climate of Zagros forests especially under global warming can help with management, conservation and restoration of these species. So, seeds of three oak species of Zagros (Quercus branti, Q. infectoria and Q. libani) were collected from Baneh forests and sown in the common gardens of Yasuj. Then, their growth paramete...

Rose-scented geranium (Pelargonium graveolens Lchr('39')Heritier) is an important ornamental plant that is cultivated worldwide due to its valuable medicinal properties. The present research was conducted to evaluate the effect of light intensity and UV radiation on the morphological and physiological characteristics of rose-scented geranium in 2020. The experiment was performed as split plots ...