in order to further understand the emergence and germination of sugar beet monogerm cultivars under moisture stress, the current study was carried out at three stages. at the first stage, the quality of germination of three monogerm cultivars (rizofort, rasoul and zarghan) were studied under five moisture stress levels (0, -2, -4, -6 and -8 bars) in germinator at 15°c by between-paper method. a...

a growth chamber study was carried out to evaluate the allelopahtic effects of shoot and root water extract of hoary cress (cardaria draba) on seed germination and seedling characteristic of sorghum (sorghum bicolor). the study was conducted based on completely randomized design with four replications in research laboratory of faculty of agriculture, university of birjand in 2008. treatments we...

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...

Fire plays an important ecological role in Mediterranean-type ecosystems. Many Mediterranean plant species exhibit enhanced germination capacity when exposed to heat. In the present study, the effect of high temperatures and exposure times on germination of Turkish red pine (Pinus brutia) was analyzed in order to reveal the response of seeds to fire and the implications on species regeneration....

ali shahriari1,3*, adam b puteh1, ghizan b saleh1, anuar b abdul rahim2 1- department of crop science, faculty of agriculture, university putra malaysia, selangor, malaysia 2- department of land management, faculty of agriculture, university putra malaysia, selangor, malaysia 3- agriculture and natural resources researches center of hormozgan, bandar abbas, iran     [1] corresponding author ema...

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 and rate me...

to evaluate the germination traits and mechanical damage of soybean seed during processing stages, anexperiment was conducted in a factorial experiment based on completely randomized design with 18treatments at mazandaran province (sari) in 2009-10. the experiment factors included different seedprocessing stages (before cleaning, after elevator, after pre cleaning, after cleaning, after drying ...

Temperature ( T ) and water potential ( y ) are two primary environmental regulators of seed germination. Seeds exhibit a base or minimum T for germination ( T b ), an optimum T at which germination is most rapid ( T o ), and a maximum or ceiling T at which germination is prevented ( T c ). Germination at suboptimal T can be characterized on the basis of thermal time, or the T in excess of T b ...