Background & Aim: Saffron (Crocus sativus L.) formerly was important in Turkey. Saffron cultivation has been decreased and it is now only cultivated in three villages in this country. It is triploid and exclusively propagated in a vegetative way by corms. In Turkey, saffron is traditionally planted by placing corms in rows randomly without grading or sorting; which results in placement...

Gladiolus (Gladiolus floribundus L.) is a bulbous ornamental plant belongs to family Iridaceae. It is an elegant cut flower grown for its magnificent spikes. The estimates of heritability varied from 99.5% to 61.1%. The highest heritability estimates in broad sense was observed for the characters vase life (99.5%) and lowest for height at 30 days after planting. Expected genetic advance express...

More than 30 mineral elements have been found with different key functions in helping plants and animals to survive and live healthy. As a direct result, they have always attracted the attention of scientists. The quest is to find some efficient analytical and quantitative procedures in this study to determine some mineral and trace elements of Iranian Crocus sativus L. corms. Several studies h...

Laboratory trials were conducted in Uganda at the Kawanda Agricultural Research Institute to determine attraction, eclosion success and larval survivorship of the banana weevil Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar) on crop residues of different ages. In the first experiment, studies focused on different types and ages of residues of one susceptible highland banana clone ‘Nabusa’ (genome group AAA-EA)....

Cocoyam (Colocasia esculenta) is an important tropical root crop grown purposely for its starchy corms. This study was carried out to isolate and identify fungi associated with the spoilage of cocoyam These organisms were isolated from spoilt corms by direct inoculation rotten tissues on Sabouraud Dextrose Agar. The fungal isolates identified using cultural morphological features such as colony...

The present study was conducted to evaluate the influence of gibberellic acid (25, 50, 100, and 200 ppm) applied on saffron corms previously harvested during different periods (March, June, before planting) growth quantitative qualitative yield (Crocus sativus L.). carried out in field 2016-2017 2017-2018 seasons experimental station Faculty Sciences Oujda (Morocco). measured parameters corresp...

iran, with more than 90% of world production, is known as the main saffron producer. this plant is sterile and the saffron proliferation is possible only via cultivation of corms. one of the most problems in saffron cultivation is the yield reduction due to planting of small corms. in this research, a new saffron corm-grading machine is introduced. the machine includes a rotating drum, which is...

introduction saffron as a food, spicy and medicinal plant has more than 62000 ha under cultivation with about 250 tons annual dry stigma production in iran, which includes about 90% of its world production. therefore, this plant has a specific value in agricultural export products of iran (fallahi et al., 2014). due to the important role of saffron in iran’s agroecosystems, the improvement of i...

Production of Saffron (Crocus sativus L.) is expanding in both the traditional and non-native areas Jammu Kashmir, India. A study was carried out to develop a cost-effective production system module at ARSSSS, SKUAST-Kashmir, Pampore determine suitable corm weight planting density for saffron. The treatments current includes 3 levels (W1= < 8g, W2= 8-12g W3 = >12g) 5 densities viz., 15 lakh den...

bean yellow mosaic virus (bymv, potyvirus, potyviridae) causes serious disease in gladiolus spp. in this work, the possibility of obtaining bymv free plant material from virus infected gladiolus corms was studied. thermotherapy, meristem-tip culture and combination of both techniques on infected corms/meristem-tip explants (0.5–1 mm in length) resulted in bymv elimination up to 15.38, 78.04 and...