Studies with excised shoots of six gladiolus cultivars viz., Bellariana, Blue Moon, Cream White, Friendship, Her Majesty and Top Brass indicated that paclobutrazol enhanced early cormel initiation and development. The interaction between paclobutrazol and sucrose was significant for cormel size. Supplementation of 10 mg L paclobutrazol and 120 g L sucrose to Murashige and Skoog’s medium favored...

Heavy metal toxicity in the soil causes harmful effects on plants as well human health. They are introduced into by different means like smelting, burning of coal, and excess use fertilizers, sewage sludge, pesticides. Among heavy metals Copper arsenic very important but their higher concentrations cause several morphological biochemical plants. become part food chain when fruits vegetables gro...

Gladiolus as economically important flowering plants reflect the wide range of morphological variability inflorescences. The aim current gladiolus breeders is to create interesting new genotypes by different breeding techniques, carrying a variety colour, size, texture and shapes flowers Despite well-established characterization germplasm, genomic screening functional markers can provide useful...

The influence of different levels of phosphorus on corm and flower productivity of Gladiolus (Gladiolus grandiflorus) was studied at Faculty of Agriculture Rawalakot, Azad Jammu and Kashmir during the year 2010. Corms of similar size and weight were collected from Awan Nursery and Seed Store, Rawalpindi. Sowing was done on 25 April, 2010 with five different phosphorus levels viz. 40, 70, 100, 1...

Background: Arka Amar is a most popular variety of gladiolus which used as cut flower and flowers are highly perishable materials pregnable to large post-harvest losses. There an immense losses in value seen all along the marketing channels it can be up 40-50%. So, experiment was carried out find best combination preservative solutions enhance vase life Gladiolus (Gladiolus grandiflorus L.) var...

The growing demand for gladiolus, especially at peaks of consumption, requires efficient scheduled production and good quality floral stems. objective this study was to understand how water deficit affects the growth development gladiolus and, consequently, stems produced. Plant development, quantitative parameters stems, dry mass partitioning were evaluated in two field experiments with four c...