This study was carried out to test the use of raw zeolite material in drying freshly harvested pepper seeds. Seeds three cultivars (Carliston, Kandil Dolma, and Yalova Yağlık) were at maturity (65-70 days after anthesis) two runs (run 1 2) 2019 dried 45°C (machine-drying), sun (sun-dried) with (1:1, seed, zeolite, rate) until seed moisture reduced lower than 10%. The time safe about 20, 40 60-1...

Alstroemeria pelegrina (A. pelegrina), a Chilean endemic, is considered vulnerable as its natural habitat currently threatened. The decline in the reproductive capacity of species due to anthropogenic impacts and climate change has made it imperative address problem by developing large-scale propagation methods. objective this study was establish protocols for breaking dormancy vitro germinatio...

Four different tests to assess compost stability were compared during green waste composting in windrows at a largescale composting plant. The tests used were: germination index, (based on seed germination); SOUR (specific oxygen uptake rate, respirometric method based on O2 consumption by the microorganisms); self-heating test, (reflecting the energy output from the aerobic process); and Solvi...

During seed maturation and germination, major changes in physiological status, gene expression, and metabolic events take place. Using chlorophyll sorting, osmopriming, and different drying regimes, Brassica oleracea seed lots of different maturity, stress tolerance, and germination behavior were created. Through careful physiological analysis of these seed lots combined with gene expression an...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether the rates of tomato seed germination under different stress and nonstress conditions were under common genetic controls by examining quantitative trait loci (QTL) affecting such traits. Seeds of BC(1) progeny of a cross between a slow-germinating tomato breeding line and a rapid-germinating tomato wild accession were evaluated for germination u...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Intensive agriculture is practised in Taiwan, and compost application is very popular as a means of improving the soil physical properties and supplying plant nutrition. We tested the potential of inoculation with thermotolerant microorganisms to shorten the maturity and improve the quality of biofertilizer prepared by composting. METHODS Thermotolerant microorganisms w...

Seeds of alfalfa (Medicago sativa) and white clover (Trifolium repens) were primed in 3 priming solutions [2% NaCl, 2% KNO3 and 300 g/L polyethylene glycol (PEG)] for 2 days at 20°C and their subsequent germination compared with that of untreated seed. Four replications of 50 seeds for germination and 25 seeds for emergence were arranged in a 2-factor factorial completely randomised design. All...

in order to study the effects of different salinity levels on turnip (brassica rapa l.), an investigation was conducted at yasouj university, iran, in 2010. the effects of four salinity levels including 1.92, 9.87, 19.6 and 21.94 ds m-1 (20:1 ratio of nacl: cacl2 in hoagland solution) on germination, vegetative and maturity stages of turnip (baherghan landrace) were investigated. the results re...

The objective of the current study was to quantify genetic variability, heritability, and advance as a percentage mean among 20 genotypes pea (Pisum sativum L.) using ten quantitative characters at Horticulture Research Centre (HRC) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University Agriculture Technology, Meerut, U.P, in years 2021–2022. results ANOVA revealed substantial variations across for each attribute...

A barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) cDNA, PM19, encoding a putative plasma membrane protein was isolated through differential screening of a dormant wild oat embryo library. PM19 is expressed in barley embryos from mid-embryogenesis up to maturity. PM19 mRNA levels decline upon germination, whereas dormant embryos retained high levels of message for up to 72 h of imbibition. PM19 mRNA levels also rem...