A large body of research has documented the effect of seed priming ongermination, emergence and crop yield. In such research, seed priming has beenfound to have a positive, negative or no effect. Meta-analysis can help tosummarize and interpret a collection of experiments. The aim of this study was toconduct a meta-analysis to synthesize published data from studies addressing theeffect of seed ...

Drought stress influences seed germination and seedling growth of many plants. Seed coating is technique of covering seeds with adhesive agents to improve seed performance and plant establishment and could be used to alleviate the negative effects of osmotic stress. In order to solve the problem of low germination and poor vigor of sweet corn under osmotic stress conditions (0, -0.3, -0.6 and -...

The response of tomato genotype Cal-ji  against five salinity levels (distilled water as control, 25, 50, 75 and 100 mM) were studied at germination and early seedling stages. An experiment with conducted by using a completely randomized design (CRD) with three replications. Shoot and root length, shoot and root fresh weight, seed vigor, mean germination time, germination percentage an...

one of the most important oilseed plants in iran is rapeseed. seed quality is affected by deterioration and aging during storage. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the roles of various chemicals on the recovery of germination characteristics in deteriorated seeds of rapeseed. in this study, one commercial brassica napus cultivar (okapi) was used. this experiment had two parts. in the fi...

Six parents of Jatropha curcas were crossed in half diallel fashion, and the F 1s were evaluated to determine the combining ability for nine germination parameters. The ratio between general combining ability (GCA) and specific combining ability (SCA) variances indicated preponderance of additive gene action for all the characters except germination percentage, time of 50% germination, seedling...

Haloxylon aphyllum is one of the most important species in sandy and saline areas in deserts, and some ecophysiology characters for viability in unfavorable condition have evaluated in this species. Seed germination is the critical stages in life cycle for species survival. In this study investigated salinity and temperature stresses on percentage and velocity of germination using six salinity ...

dormancy breaking and germination requirements were investigated in seeds of ferula ovina and ferula gummosa. seeds of rather species were collected from north and eastern-north rangelands of iran. seeds of each of the species were subjected to different treatments including various levels of ga3, chilling and combination of ga3 and chilling (ga-chilling). in contrast to treated seeds, non-trea...