To study the effect of seed priming on seedling emergence characteristics of lentil and evaluate its interaction with drought stress at flowering stage, an experiment was carried out as split plot in a randomized complete block design with three replications at research station of Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran. The main factor consisted drought stress with two levels (conventional irrig...

In order to study the effects of seed pre-treatment with potassium nitrate (KNO3), gibberellic acid (GA3) and hydro-priming on growth and yield of two sugarbeet cultivars, an experiment was conducted at Miyandoab Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Station in 2009 growing season. The experimental design was a factorial based on randomized complete blocks design with three replications. ...

Extended abstract Introduction: Today, various technologies have been developed to improve seed quality with the aim of increasing the percentage, speed and uniformity of germination and better seedling establishment under different environmental conditions. One of these technologies is seed pre-treatment or seed priming. In this regard, some studies confirmed that pre-treatment of seeds with ...

In order to unravel the potential mitigating effects of seed priming on salt-stressed chickpea (Cicer arietinum), a 4-replicate factorial out-door completely random design pot experiment was conducted on Arman cultivar of chickpea at the research field of the Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan (Latitude of 32° 38' North, Longitude of 51° 39' East, and an Altitude of 1620 m above sea lev...

In order to investigate the effects of seed priming by salicylic acid (SA) and Paclobutrazol (Pa) on parsley, as a medicinal plant, under drought stress, a factorial experiment, based on completely randomized design with four replications, was performed at the Research Greenhouse and Laboratory of Department of Horticulture, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili. Experimental treatments included fiv...

To evaluate the effect of supplemental irrigation and seed priming on yield and some quantity and quality characteristics of vetch (Vicia dasycarpa) rainfed maragheh cultivar, an experiment was carried out at the Research Farm of Faculty of Agriculture, University of Urmia, West Azarbaijan province, Iran, during 2011. The experiment was laid out using split-plot, based on Randomized Complete Bl...

The varying seed priming methods have widely been used for the improving germinability and seedling establishment of numerous economic plants especially under environmental stresses. In this context, in order to evaluate the advantage of priming on different physiological and biochemical indices of black cumin seed germination and seedling growth in saline conditions, the factorial experiment w...