Cut flowers have become an export income in the global floriculture market. They multiple uses, such as for home beautification, ceremonies (including weddings and funerals), symbols of love, appreciation, respect, etc., humane society. Each type cut flower has a different vase life longevity their freshness is linked to preharvest, harvest, postharvest tools conditions. The quality must be con...

maintaining quality and longevity of cut flowers is one of the critical issues in the floriculture industry, especially in cut flowers; and one of the most important problems in chrysanthemum, as one of the most popular cut flowers. therefore, an experiment was conducted based on completely randomized design as pulse treatment with the three factors: tea extracts with 4 levels (5, 10, 20, and 4...

to study the effect of sucrose and calcium chloride on the quality and longevity of cut flower of rose cv. varlon, this experiment was conducted at the faculty of agriculture, zanjan university, zanjan, iran, in 2007. cut flowers were received from mahallat ornamental plants and flowers research station. experimental factors included: sucrose at four levels (0, 40, 80 and 100 mg/l) and calcium ...

the effects of sodium chloride (nacl) salinity (control; canal water with 0.4 ds m-1), 2.5 dsm-1, 5.0 ds m-1, 7.5 ds m-1 and 10.0 ds m-1, respectively) developed after 6 weeks of pruning (beginning of study) on plant growth, flowering and quality of three cut rose (rosa hybrida l.) cultivars viz. ‘kardinal’, ‘angelique’ and ‘gold medal’ were studied to achieve better management, quality product...

the aim of this paper was to assess the effect of catechol (ch), as a peroxidase inhibitor, and 8-hydroxyquinoline citrate (hqc), as a bacterial inhibitor, on keeping the quality of gerbera jamesonii cv. hongyan cut flowers, known to be limited by vascular occlusion. blockage in the stem xylem vessels of cut gerbera was studied using light and scanning electron microscope. the results showed th...

Maintaining quality and longevity of cut flowers is one of the critical issues in the floriculture industry, especially in cut flowers; and one of the most important problems in chrysanthemum, as one of the most popular cut flowers. Therefore, an experiment was conducted based on completely randomized design as pulse treatment with the three factors: tea extracts with 4 levels (5, 10, 20, and 4...