Mohammad Pichand; Ghasem Ali Dianati Tilaki; Ehsan Sadati
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To evaluate the effects of hydropriming and drought stress on germination traits of cymbopogon olivieri the experimental design was two factors factorial arranged in a completely randomized design, with four replications and 50 seeds per replicate. The first factor was hydropriming (in four levels), ...
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To evaluate the effects of hydropriming and drought stress on germination traits of cymbopogon olivieri the experimental design was two factors factorial arranged in a completely randomized design, with four replications and 50 seeds per replicate. The first factor was hydropriming (in four levels), the second, polyethylene glycol 6000 (in four levels), in laboratory conditions. That data were analyzed using spss software. The difference between the means was compared using duncan test (p<0.05). ANOVA Results indicated that the interaction between hydropriming time treatment and polyethylene glycol treatment caused significant differences in germination rate, shoot length, shoot wet and dry weight (P<0.01) and vigor index (P<0.05 ). But it caused no significant differences in parameters of percentage of germination, average germination time, root length, root wet and dry weight. The highest percentage of germination was related to the treatment by -4 bar PEG and without priming (control). The lowest percentage of germination was resulted under hydropriming in 48h and treatment by -8 bar polyethylen glycol respectively 49 and 14 percent. The highest rate of germination was related to the treatment by -8 bar PEG and hydropriming in 48h. Also seeds didn’t germinated in -16 bar of PEG in all hydropriming times. The results showed that the treatments by -4 and -8 bar PEG during 48 and 72 hours hydropriming caused the most positive effects on seed germination percentage, germination rate, vigor index, root length, shoot length of cymbopogon olivieri seeds.
somaie dehdary; zohreh kuhansani; fatemeh shojaee; ruhangiz kazemi
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To evaluate the effect of zeolite on the growth of plants in drought conditions. Cymbopogonolivieri, Medicago sativa, Medicagoscutellata in three zeolite levels (2 g, 4 g and zero in a kilogram potting soil) with 15 repetitions was considered. After ensuring the germination of plants, 7-day irrigation ...
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To evaluate the effect of zeolite on the growth of plants in drought conditions. Cymbopogonolivieri, Medicago sativa, Medicagoscutellata in three zeolite levels (2 g, 4 g and zero in a kilogram potting soil) with 15 repetitions was considered. After ensuring the germination of plants, 7-day irrigation tension was applied to them. It was found out that following the first tension, the effect of zeolite in improving viability and mitigation of drought tension will appear and it is observed that in 20% and 40% Zeolite treatments, the percentage of viability and germination of plants is much more in comparison with control group. Gradually, following applying tensions, the average number of remaining saplings decreased in control treatments. The highest percentage of residual base, the whole plant length, stem fresh weight, and dry weight of zeolite was observed in Cymbopogonolivieri in the treatment of 40%. More traits such as stem length, fresh weight, dry weight and fresh weight roots in the treatment of 40% zeolite in Medicagoscutellata species improved. The highest root weight was observed in Medicago sativa using 40% zeolite. No significant difference was detected in terms of wet root length in three plant species.
