Identification of drought-resistant genotypes is crucial in order to reduce the negative effects of drought, as one of the most important limiting factors of crop production in arid and semiarid regions. Thus, effects of three irrigation regimes (irrigation after 50 (I1), 100 (I2) and 150 (I3) mm evaporation from a class A pan), as the main plot were investigated. These effects were studied on ...

Abstract: Two experiments were conducted to study the impact of salt stress and salicylic acid (SA) on seed germination and plant growth of maize (SC704) under field conditions in the city of Kerman in 2010. For germination experiment, SA seed pretreatments included control, water soaked, SA soaked in 0.1 and 0.2 mM for 24 hours and salt treatment included control, 40 and 80 mM NaCl. All see...

 An experiment was conducted to study the effects of some agro-technical factors (plant density, sowing date and cultivar) on qualitative and quantitative yield in two cultivars of Red bean (Phaseolus vulgar cv. Saiad, Naze) under the climatic conditions of Zanjan. The experiment was executed as split-plot factorial based on randomized complete block design with three replication. Sowing date w...

In order to investigate the effects of priming with a KH2Po4 solution on emergence and heterotrophic growth of black cumin (Nigella sativa L.) seedling, a series of experiments were conducted at the Faculty of Agriculture, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran, in 2013 and 2014. A field experiment was conducted as factorial layout based on a randomized complete block design with four replication...

data envelopment analysis (dea) is a powerful tool for measuring relative efficiency of organizational units referred to as decision making units (dmus). in most cases dmus have network structures with internal linking activities. traditional dea models, however, consider dmus as black boxes with no regard to their linking activities and therefore do not provide decision makers with the reasons...