to investigate the effect of spraying with different concentrations of vermiwash solution on the morphological traits, percentage and yield of essential oil of lemon balm (melissa officinalis l.), this experiment was conducted as randomized complete block design (rcbd) with four replications in experimental field of agricultural faculty of ferdowsi university of mashhad (fum). the treatments we...

this study was conducted to evaluate the effect of fertilizers on the yield and essential oils of basil. this experiment was carried out in completely randomized block design with three replications in jiroft area. the treatments included three levels of barvar 2 (10, 20 and 25 g/ha), cow manure at three levels (5, 10 and 15 ton/ha), ammonium phosphate and superphosphate triple each at three le...

Cumin (Cuminum cyminum L.) is one of the most important cultivable medicinal plants in Iran and today, it is the second most popular spice in the world after black pepper. It is essential to know the relationships between yield and its components in cumin breeding programs. Therefore, different multivariate statistical analysis was performed on plant characters in cumin to determine th...

this experiment was conducted to determine gene action for different traits of chickpea including days to 50% flowering, days to maturity, plant height, 100-seeds weight, number of pods per plant and seed yield. five genotypes including arman, hashem, ilc588, iccv2 and ilc3279 were selected and crossed with each other. four generations of each cross along with parents were evaluated in a random...

Height control of potted Lilium lancifolium (Tiger lily) and L. × aurelianense (Aurelian lily) plants would improve their marketability in the garden center and extend their market season. Bulbs (16-18 cm) were treated with Concise (uniconazole) or Piccolo (paclobutrazol). Bulbs were dipped for one minute in a 0, 2, 4, 8, or 16 mg/L Concise solution or for 15 minutes in a 0, 5, 10, 20, or 40 mg...

BY-PLANT PREDICTION OF CORN GRAIN YIELD USING OPTICAL SENSOR READINGS AND MEASURED PLANT HEIGHT Kent Martin a , William Raun b & John Solie c a Agronomy Department, Kansas State University, Garden City, Kansas, USA b Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA c Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stil...