Generally, primed seeds produce larger and heavier plants than non-primed seeds. This may be simply due to rapid emergence and extension of leaf growth, or the influence of other physiological processes. The effect of seed pretreatment with salicylic acid (SA) on some physiological and photosynthetic characteristics of the safflower seedlings, cv. Goldasht, was examined under field condition. T...

Pharmaceutical availability of diazepam, oxazepam and nitrazepam from solid dispersions of PEG 6000 have been studied in comparison with corresponding physical mixtures and pure benzodiazepines. Selected derivatives of 1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one are poorly water soluble drugs. The aim of this work was to report the properties of diazepamand nitrazepam-PEG 6000 solid dispersions. Differential scann...

The rapid-release mechanisms of standard extract from Ginkgo biloba leaf (EGb) in the polyethylene glycol (PEG) 6000 dispersions were investigated. The apparent equilibrium solubilities of the total flavone glycosides and the soluble solid materials of EGb increased linearly with the increasing concentrations of PEG 6000 solutions. In DSC curves, the peak, onset and endset temperatures of solid...

Some drugs have low bioavailability due to their poor aqueous solubility and/or slowdissolution rate in biological fluids. Stiripentol (STP) is a novel anticonvulsant drug that isstructurally unrelated to the currently available antiepileptics. It has poor aqueous solubilityand its solubility has to be enhanced accordingly. Polyethyleneglycol 6000 (PEG-6000) iscommonly utilized as a hydrophilic...

Presoaking seeds in water (hydropriming) or a solution, usually of polyethylene glycol (PEG) various salts at low potential (osmopriming), has been demonstrated to improve the germination numerous species including vegetables (carrot, celery, leek, lettuce, tomato), floral plants (cyclamen, primrose, pansy) and others (sugar beet, rape, soybean, sunflower). This treatment allows stricto sensu o...

Abstract Global climate change induced environmental stress such as salinity significantly impact growth and crop productivity. Red amaranth ( Amaranthus tricolor L.) is a vegetable commodity that has high nutritional value, but its productivity will decrease when grown in saline area. Seed priming one of the pre-planting treatment techniques used to increase plant under unfavourable conditions...

The natural populations of East Indian sandalwood (Santalum album L.) are very confined and facing a drastic decline over the past three decades due to overexploitation. Santalum L. seeds, in general, have poor staggered germination, which is major constraint raising seedlings nursery establishing plantations. In present investigation, we studied impact hydro- osmopriming on germination attribu...

to evaluate the effect of on-farm seed priming and methods of zinc sulfate application on seed emergence properties, yield and yield components of two corn cultivars, an experiment was conducted as factorial in randomized complete block design with three replications during 2012 at research farm of bu-ali sina university, hamedan. first factor was methods of zinc sulfate application containing ...

Eremosparton songoricum (Litv.) Vass. is an endemic and extremely drought-resistant desert plant with populations that are gradually declining due to the failure of sexual recruitment. The effects of drought stress on the seed germination and physiological characteristics of seeds and seedlings were investigated. The results showed that the germination percentage decreased with an increase of p...