Postharvest improvement of water relations and water uptake of cut flowers and control of microbial contamination of preservative solutions is one of the most important strategies in maintaining postharvest quality and prolonging of cut flowers vase life; especially for leafy flowering stems such as alstroemeria. This experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of different peppermint’s es...

Alstroemeria is one of the most beautiful cut flowers in the world that has allocated major part of cut flowers exports to itself. One of the main problems in the trade this flowers is a premature yellowing of the foliage. Therefore, the present study was designed to investigate increasing the vase life and delay of leaf yellowing Alstroemeria cut flowers cultivar "Fortaleza". The experiment wa...

Premature leaf yellowing of Alstroemeria cut flowers prior to petal fall is the most important limiting factor of the flower postharvest life. In this study, cut flower Alstroemeria cv. Bridal were treated for 24 hours with different solutions including gibberllic acid, benzyl adenine, natural essential oil carvacrol with two concentrations of 50 and 100 mg L-1, 5-sulfo salicylic acid in two co...