Showing 33 results for Hosseini
F. Etemadi, Sh. Madah Hosseini, H. Dashti, A. Akhgar,
Volume 4, Issue 11 (4-2014)
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In order to evaluate the effect of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria) PGPR( on salt tolerance in vegetative and reproductive growth stages of safflower (Carthamus tinctorius), a randomized complete block design with a factorial combination of bacterial inoculation and salinity, each in three levels, and four replications was conducted in experimental glasshouse of Vali-e-Asr University of Rafsanjan. Bacterial inoculation treatment included control (non inoculation), inoculation with Pseudomonas fluorescens strains 12 and 52 and salinity stress treatment included (electrical conductivity of 1 (control), 6 and 12 dS.m-1 in soil). Results showed that leaf area decreased with increase in salinity, but Pseudomonas fluorescens strain 12 significantly increased leaf area. Both strains significantly increased leaf chlorophyll index at mid grain filling stage comared to to uninoculated control. Finally, grain number per capitol, grain yield per plant, mean grain weight, oil yield, and biological yield decreased with increasing in salinity level, but capitol number per plant and harvest index remained unchanged. Two bacteria strains applied in this study increased only oil concentration in control level of salinity and were uneffective on other yield components. It seems that bacterial inoculation may improve some vegetative indices of safflower but its impact on yield needs to be further studied.
H. Samady, A. Hatamzade, M. Ghasemnezhad, H. Zakizade, S. S. Hosseini,
Volume 4, Issue 13 (1-2015)
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This experiment was conducted on rose cut flowers, Red Naomy cultivar, with the length of 35 cm, for 18 hours as a short-term treatment in a factorial based on completely randomized design with five treatments including sucrose + 8-Hydroxyquinoline sulfate, salicylic acid + sucrose + 8-Hydroxyquinoline sulfate, ascorbic acid + sucrose + 8-Hydroxyquinoline sulfate, Salicylic acid + ascorbic acid + sucrose + 8-Hydroxyquinoline sulfate and distilled water as control, and three replications in bottles. Morphological traits such as shelf life, changes in water uptake, fresh weight, flower diameter and physiological traits such as total protein and proline contents were measured. The results showed that combination of Salicylic acid + sucrose + 8-Hydroxyquinoline sulfate treatment significantly affected shelf life compared to control and other treatments. The results also revealed that the combination of Salicylic acid + ascorbic acid + sucrose + 8-Hydroxyquinoline sulfate delayed flowers senescence and increased the amount of water uptake, fresh weight and flower diameter. Moreover, the greatest protein and proline contents were obtained under ascorbic acid + sucrose + 8-Hydroxyquinoline sulfate treatment and sucrose + 8-Hydroxyquinoline sulfate, respectively.
T. Sohrabi, A. Hosseini, K.h. Talebi,
Volume 5, Issue 1 (spring 2001)
Abstract
During recent years, worldwide concern has been focused on the potential for contamination of surface waters and ground waters by agrochemicals in runoff and soil water from irrigated fields. Given this perspective, it is very important to correctly evaluate the levels of different agrochemicals in water, both from human toxicological and environmental viewpoints and to develop management strategies for reducing agrochemical loads to acceptable levels in the environment. The main objective of this study was to assess the qualitative changes of tailwater due to the use of agrochemicals and thereby to determine contamination loads. Four farms (A, B, C and D) were chosen in the Foumanat region in the F2 unit in 1996. The areas of these fields ranged from 0.22 to 0.6 ha having a number of unequal successive basins with variable inflow and outflow rates.
A quantitative analysis showed that the tailwater ratio in farms A, B, C and D ranged from 2 to 64% during the irrigation season. The outflow water was classified as C3S1. The changes in qualitative factors were not significant and did not follow any certain pattern during the irrigation season. The changes in SAR, EC, Cu, Zn, B, P, K and DO in the inflow and outflow waters were also insignificant. After fertilizer application, the increase in nitrogen concentration in the outflow was significant. The average pollution loads in the inflow and outflow were about 1618 and 1476 kg/day/ha, respectively. The remaining load in the rice fields was about 142 kg/day/ha, which was meaningful at 1% level. The fifth farm (E) located in Lahidjan was sprayed with diazinon. Water samples were analyzed each day for diazinon residues for 10 days after application. Sample analysis showed that the concentration of the insecticide was 93.08 mg/l immediately after application and gradually reduced to 0.98 mg/l ten days after spraying.
S. Hosseini, S. A. H. Goli, J. Keramat,
Volume 5, Issue 16 (9-2015)
Abstract
Nowadays low-calorie products are increasingly becoming popular. One of the methods to produce low-calorie food is replacement of sugar (sucrose) with low-calorie sweeteners such as stevioside. This compound is isolated from the leaves of the Paraguayan plant, Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni. Since orange juice is a popular beverage with an important role in human nutrition, production of low-calorie orange nectar (containing 60% natural juice) and optimization of formulation parameters using response surface methodology (RSM) was the purpose of this study. Three levels of independent variables, sugar, stevioside and pectin were used to optimize formulation and two responses of brix and viscosity were evaluated. After the determination of the best formula, they were produced and stored at refrigerator (4°C) and ambient (25°C) temperatures for 60 days and their physicochemical properties were measured in 20 days intervals. The results showed that after 60 days of storage, stevioside content was reduced (5%). Sucrose, turbidity and viscosity were reduced during storage but brix did not indicate a notable change over the course of the study. These changes were greater at the higher storage temperature (except brix). At the end of the storage, optimal treatment had higher turbidity and total phenolic contents than the blank sample. Results showed that it is possible to produce orange nectar with 70% decrease in its sugar content by using 0.06% of stevioside and 0.03% of pectin, without any significant effects on physicochemical and sensory properties.
S. Mousavi, K. Arzani, M. Hosseini-Mazinani, A. Yadollahi,
Volume 5, Issue 16 (9-2015)
Abstract
Identification and characterization of tolerant and susceptible cultivars of crop plants to cold stress is important. In this regard, in present research electrolyte leakage and Total Soluble Sugar (TSS) contents in the leaf and bark tissues in ten olive cultivars, namely, Zard, Mari, Fadak87-1, Fadak87-5, Fadak86, Fadak77, Arbequina, Mission, Blady and Coratina were measured to assess their response to cold stress during two consecutive years. Two years-old shoots from five year-old olive trees were collected in summer and winter from a commercial orchard in Qom, Central Iran and exposed to cold treatments of 0, -4, -8, -12, -16 and -20°C for 24 hours. Then LT50 was measured by electrolyte leakage. A considerable increase in cold-hardiness was observed with decreasing temperature. Leaf and bark tissues exhibited more tolerance in winter than summer and bark tissue had more tolerance than leaf in both seasons. Also TSS contents in leaf and bark tissues were greater in winter than summer and in all studied cultivars bark tissue had greater TSS content than the leaf. Results showed that cold-hardy cultivars, Zard, Arbequina and Fadak87-5 (with tolerance thresholds of
-17.34°C, -17.5°C and -17.99°C, respectively) had greater TSS contents in tissues in summer and winter compared to susceptible cultivars, Coratina and Mari (with tolerance thresholds of -7.18°C and -9.13°C respectively). Although the precise mechanism in response to cold stress has not been characterized in olive tree, it can be concluded from this experiment, that the tissue TSS content is closely associated with resistance to cold stress in this tree species.
S. Mohammadi Chamnari1, S. Houshmand, M. Hosseini,
Volume 5, Issue 17 (12-2015)
Abstract
The objective of the present research was to investigate the effect of salinity stress on sodium, potassium and calcium concentrations, and Na+/K+ and Na+/Ca2+ ratios at seedling stage in an advanced back cross (BC2F6) rice population. The population was derived from crossing between Hashemi, an Iranian cultivar, and IR67418-110-32222 (IR-22) from IRRI. The ANOVA indicated that the effects of genotypes, salinity stress and interaction between stress and genotype were significant for all the traits, which is suggestive of high level of genetic variation, salinity effect on traits and different response of the genotypes to salinity levels. The salinity stress markedly decreased the K+ concentration in the shoot. However the shoot Na+ and Ca2+ concentration and Na+/K+ and Na+/Ca2+ ratios were significantly increased in saline environment. The population characteristics mean value were found to be between of parents values and it often shifted to recurrent parent (Hashemi) value in both stress and non stress conditions. It shows that Hashemi variety gene’s leave more influences on the expression of the traits in the population. Transgressive segregation was observed for all the studied traits in the population lines. Genetic and phenotypic correlations among the studied traits showed the same trend. The highest correlation coefficients were related to Na+ concentration and Na+/K+ (rg= 0.89**) in non stress condition. The high heritability levels of the traits provide selection possibility for salinity tolerance in the population based on these traits. According to the present findings, it is possible to candidate some lines (such as line number 139) as salt tolerant at the seedling stage.
A. Ronaghi, M. R. Chakerolhosseini, N. Karimian,
Volume 6, Issue 2 (summer 2002)
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Phosphorus (P) and iron (Fe) are essential nutrients for plants. Iron availability is low in calcareous soils of Iran due to the excessive amounts of CaCO3 and high pH. Overfertilization of P fertilizers may also decrease Fe availability. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of P and Fe on the growth and chemical composition of corn (Zea mays L.) under greenhouse conditions. Treatments consisted of a factorial arrangement of P rates (0, 40, 80, 120 and 160 mg kg-1 as KH2PO4) and Fe rates (0, 2.5, 5 and 10 mg kg-1 as Fe EDDHA) in a completely randomized design with four replications. Plants were grown for 8 weeks in a loamy soil, calssified as Chitgar series (fine-loamy, carbonatic, thermic, Typic Calcixerepts). Results showd that P application up to 80 mg kg-1 increased corn top dry matter. Corn P concentration and total uptake increased by P application but decreased by Fe application. Application of Fe up to 5 mg kg-1 increased dry matter but decreased it at higher rates. Concentration and total uptake of Fe increased by Fe application but decreased by P application. Zinc and copper concentrations decresed significantly when P was added. Manganese concentration increased at 40 mg P kg-1 but decreased at higher rates. Iron application decreased zinc and manganese concentrations but had no effect on copper.
M. R. Chakerolhosseini, A. Ronaghi, M. Maftoun, N. Karimian,
Volume 6, Issue 4 (winter 2003)
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Iron (Fe) availability is low in calcareous soils of Iran due to high pH levels and presence of excessive amounts of CaCO3. Overfertilization by phosphorus (P) fertilizers may also decrease Fe availability. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of P, Fe and their interactions on the growth and chemical composition of soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merrill] under greenhouse conditions. Treatments consisted of a factorial arrangement of P rates (0, 40, 80, 120 and 160 mg kg-1 as KH2PO4) and Fe rates (0, 2.5, 5 and 10 mg kg-1 as FeEDDHA) in a completely randomized design with four replications. Plants were grown for 8 weeks in a loamy soil, classified as Chitgar series (fine-loamy, carbonatic, thermic, Typic Calcixerepts). Results showed that P application up to 80 and Fe at 2.5 mg kg-1 increased shoot dry matter. Phosphorus concentration, total uptake and P:Fe ratio in soybean increased by P application but decreased by Fe application. Application of Fe up to 2.5 mg kg-1 increased dry matter but decreased it at higher rates. Concentration and total uptake of Fe increased by Fe application but decreased by P application. Interaction of P and Fe had no effect on shoot dry matter. Zinc (Zn) and copper (Cu) concentrations decreased significantly when P was added and manganese (Mn) concentration increased up to 40 mg P kg-1 but decreased at higher rates. Iron application had no effect on soybean Zn and Cu concentrations but decreased Mn concentration at all rates. Prior to any fertilizer recommendations, it is necessary to study the effects of P, Fe and their interactions on soybean under field conditions.
F. Razeghi Jahroomi, S. M. Hosseini Mazinani, Sh. Mohammadi, Kh. Razavi, B. Shiran, K. Mostafavi,
Volume 6, Issue 19 (5-2016)
Abstract
Harvest time, in olive, is an important key to achieve high quality and quantity of oil with a desired and balanced fatty acid (high oleic acid and low palmitic and linoleic acid) composition. Appropriate harvesting time varies in different locations depending on climatic and agronomic situations and identifying the right time for harvesting may bring about a high quality oil. Thus, the current study was carried out to determine the best harvesting time for two Iranian (Mari and Shenge) and two foreign (Kroniki and Arbequina) cultivars in the region of Tarom, Zanjan, (north of Iran). The results obtained indicated that palmitic, oleic and stearic acid contents decreased and linoleic and palmitic acid contents increased with the progress of ripening. In addition, oil percentage increased with the progress of fruit growth and development. Based on the amount of desired fatty acids, the best harvesting time for the Mari, Kroniki and Arbeqina cultivars, was 180 days after full bloom. It was revealed that the cultivar Shenge is not suitable for oil extraction, due to the low percentage of oleic acids. Therefore, Shenge could be cultivated for producing olive cans rather than olive oil and the best harvesting time for Shenge is 120 days after full bloom.
B. Hosseini, M. M. Majidi2,
Volume 6, Issue 20 (7-2016)
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This research was conducted to evaluate genetic variation and estimate genetic parameters of forage yield and related traits in Dactylis glomerata. Twenty five half sib families derived from poly cross of 25 parental genotypes were evaluated under two moisture environments (normal and drought conditions) according to a randomized complete block design in Research Farm of Isfahan University of Technology. Results indicated that there are significant statistical differences and high genetic variation among the families for most of the studied traits. Drought stress significantly affected all forage related traits (except for leaf to stem ratio), leading to decreases in a majority of them. Mean of forage yield was decreased by 53.48 percent due to drought stress. Genotypic coefficient of variation under non-stress condition ranged from 1.78 to 45.1 and under drought condition ranged from 1.7 to 30.4, indicating a high genetic variation in this germplasm. The highest narrow sense heritability was related to crown diameter in both moisture environments. Narrow sense heritability for dry forage yield was 52% at non-stress and 45% at stress conditions. Based on dry forage yield, genotypes 2, 5, 8, 13 and 15 showed a higher general combining ability in both moisture conditions and, therefore, are potent to be used for developing synthetic varieties.
M Hosseini Farahi, Z Haghanifard,
Volume 7, Issue 3 (Fall 2017)
Abstract
In order to investigate the effect of Aloe vera gel, salicylic acid and hot water treatment, on postponement of decay and improvement of fruit quality, a factorial experiment based on a completely randomized design with eight treatments and four replications was conducted in 2015. Treatments included Aloe vera gel in 3 concentrations of 0, 25 and 50%, salicylic acid at 2 rates of 1.5 and 3 mM and hot water at three temperatures of 35, 45 and 55oC for 20 minutes. Treated and untreated fruits were held at 20oC and 85-90% RH and fruits characteristics were evaluated in 15 days intervals during 60 days of storage. Traits such as the percent of fruit weight loss, fruit decay, fruit browning, Total Soluble Solid (TSS), titration acidity as well as pH and fruit skin color (a*, b* and l*) were measured. The results showed that percent of fruit weight loss, fruit decay and fruit browning in untreated fruits increased after 60 days in storage. The lowest fruit weight loss (7.64%), fruit decay (14.9%) and fruit browning (2.81%) were obtained in fruits treated with salicylic acid and Aloe vera gel when compared with untreated fruits. Also fruits treated with salicylic acid and Aloe vera gel were found to be superior in terms of color (a*, b* and l*) after 60 days in storage. Finally, application of salicylic acid at 3 mM and Aloe vera gel at 25-50% treatments may be recommended for improving the postharvest quality of sweet lemon.
A. Enferad, K. Poustini, N. Majnoon Hosseini, A. A. Khajeh-Ahmad-Attari,
Volume 7, Issue 4 (winter 2004)
Abstract
In a pot experiment, the growth (Dry matter) responses of 18 rapeseed varieties to three levels of NaCl salinity induced by 1.2, 6, and 12 dS.m-1 were investigated using a factorial experiment with a randomized complete block design in 3 replications. The results indicated that salinity reduced total dry matter, Na concentration, K/Na ratio, ion selectivity of K versus Na, and leaf water potential while it increased K concentration. However, the leaf water potential of the plants had the highest and a significantly negative correlation with total dry matter accumulation. Therefore, it seemed that leaf water content of the plants could explain the tolerance or sensitivity responses to salinity. The rapeseed varieties were accordingly ranked into different groups. The varieties viz, Alice, Fonax, DP.94.8 and Licord were classified as saline tolerant group, and varieties such as Okapi, Akamar and Eurol as saline sensitive group. The remaining eight rapeseed varieties were moderately tolerant. Moreover, the response of rapeseed varieties viz. Consul, VDH8003-98 and Orient were different such that the above explanation could not be applied to them. Therefore, halophytic strategies for these three varieties might be worth further investigation.
Narjes Tabkhkar, Babak Rabiei, Habibollah Samizadeh Lahiji, Maryam Hosseini Chaleshtori,
Volume 7, Issue 4 (Winter 2018)
Abstract
Drought stress is one of the major abiotic stresses that limits rice productivity in the world. In this study 83 diverse rice genotypes were evaluated under reproductive-stage drought stress and non-stress conditions in a completely randomized design with three replications. Eleven well known stress tolerance and susceptibility indices were calculated based on the grain yield under stress and non-stress conditions. Also rank mean (RM) indices were calculated based on the ranks of genotypes for the former calculated indices. The highest seed yield under non-stress condition belonged to the genotypes Sangjo, Zenith, IR70445-146-3-3, Norin 22 and Ghasroldashti. Under stress condition, however, IR83750-131-1, IR74718-24-2-3, Sepidrood, TETEP and IR71739-24-3-5 genotypes showed the highest seed yield. STI, GMP, MRP and REI indices with positive and significant correlations with grain yield in stress and non-stress conditions were found to be the most suitable indices for selection of drought tolerant rice genotypes. According to these indices, IR83750-131-1, Sangjo, Sepidrood, Zenith and IR58 genotypes showed the highest ranks and had a higher tolerance to drought stress. Based on RM index, IR83750-131-1, IR74718-24-2-3, Sepidrod, TETEP and IR74720-13-1-2 obtained the highest ranks. Cluster analysis grouped the most drought tolerant genotypes in the second cluster.
M Karimi, M Hosseini, S. M. Zahedi,
Volume 8, Issue 1 (6-2018)
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The aim of this research was to investigate the effect of different concentrations of chitosan coating on the quality and shelf life of a local cultivar of banana. The factorial experiments of this research were conducted on a completely random basis and also replicated three times in a warehouse at 15˚C and in relative humidity of 85-90%. The treatments consisted of four chitosan concentrations (0, 0.5, 1 and 2%) and characteristics such as weight, hardness, rottenness, phenol content, antioxidant content, pH, titratable acidity and soluble solid materials, vitamin C, polyphenol oxidase enzyme, level of browning and coloring were measured on days 0, 5, 10, 15 and 20. The obtained results showed that chitosan treatment improved some qualitative characteristics in banana fruits. Chitosan delayed water loss and weight loss, hardness, ascorbic acid content and coloring. The highest incidence index (8.09%) was obtained from the control treatment and its lowest value (2.45%) was obtained from applying 2% chitosan after 20 days. The contents of the soluble solid materials and organic acids increased during storage and the banana fruits treated with 1 and 2% chitosan had the lowest soluble solid materials and acid contents. Also, at the end of the storage period, the fruits treated with 1 and 2% chitosan had the highest pH, phenol content and total antioxidant content. Finally, it was concluded that chitosan treatments with concentrations of 1 and 2 % can significantly increase and maintain the quality of banana fruits during storage..
J. Lameie Heravani, N. Nemati, R. Bozorgipour, Z. Hosseini - Negad,
Volume 8, Issue 4 (winter 2005)
Abstract
In order to find the high-yielding and adaptable cultivars in different environments, eight cotton genotypes including two early maturity hybrids were studied and compared with the Varamin cultivar as control in a randomized complete block design with four replications in six regions in 1997 and 1998. Using Barttlet test, some of the environments were eliminated from statistical analysis. Therefore, combined analysis of variance and other statistical calculations were carried out based on environment (Year×Location) on the assumption that environment was randomized and cultivars remained constant during the entire study. In combined analysis of variance, genotypic effect (in yield) was significant at 1% probability level. Combined analysis of variance also showed significant differences for the main effect of environment and genotype×environment intreaction at 1% probability level. To select the best genotype with a high and stable yield, parametric statistics of stability including type 1 stability (S2i,CVi), type II stability (bi,σi2, w2i), type III stability (Sd2i) as well as non-parametric statistics such as mean of genotypic rank (R), standard deviation of rank (SDR), and simultaneous selection of parametric and nonparametric statistics for yield and stability (Ysi) were calculated. Overall, considering the important agronomic and technological characteristics of genotypes such as yield, earliness, span length, fiber strength, percentage of uniformity, and micronariae index, the hybrid Coker×Bulgar was selected as high-yielding and stable cultivar to be substituted for Varamin cultivar across the planting area.
M. Ghoreishi, Y. Hosseini, M. Maftoon,
Volume 8, Issue 4 (2-2019)
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The successive droughts and the degradation of water and soil resources quality (salinity and toxicity of nutrients like boron) are serious challenges for tropical fruit tree cultivation such as mango in Hormozgan province south of Iran. Using some nutrients like silicon is believed to be effective in order to mitigate the aforementioned problem. Hence, an experiment was carried out in which six boron levels (0, 5, 10, 20, 40 and 80 mg B/kg soil as H3BO3) and four levels of silicon (0, 70, 140 and 280 mg Si/kg soil as Na2Si3O7) were applied on young mango seedlings. The results showed that the use of boron (80 mg B/kg soil) had a significant effect on measured mango vegetative traits; as the dry weights of leaf, stem and root were reduced by 66, 57.4 and 58.8 percent, respectively. Moreover, the chlorophyll index was decreased by boron application whereas using Silicon increased the chlorophyll index. Using silicon, in all boron levels increased proline and decreased reducing sugars concentrations in the mango plant.
Y. Fathipour, A. Hosseini, A. A. Talebi, S. Moharramipour, Sh. Asgari,
Volume 9, Issue 2 (summer 2005)
Abstract
The biological parameters of cabbage aphid, Brevicoryne brassicae (L.) was studied in the laboratory conditions under the three constant temperatures (20, 25 and 30 ºC), RH 60±5% and a photoperiod of 16:8 (L:D) using 40 first instar nymphs. Among nymphs, 40%, 55% and 10% of them completed their nymphal period in 20, 25 and 30 ºC, respectively and developed to adult stage. In 30 ºC, the most biological acitivities of aphid were disrupted and the most individuals (nymphs and adults) were killed. Most developmental periods, longevity and the amount of reproduction in 20 ºC were significantly greater than other temperatures. In temperatures 20, 25 and 30 ºC the last individual of a cohort died in age of 33, 29 and 16 days, respectively. The life expectancy of cabbage aphid in the first day of experiment was 13.93, 10.50 and 7.19, respectively according to the mentioned temperatures. There was a little difference between net reproduction rates in temperatures 20 and 25 ºC (16.74 and 15.92, respectively). Net reproduction rate was reduced extremely in temperature 30 ºC (1.75). The intrinsic rate of the increase in the temperatures 20, 25 and 30 ºC were 0.187, 0.226 and 0.042, respectively. The results indicated that 25 ºC was the optimal temperature for biological activities of B. brassicae and its highest population growth was observed at this temperature.
H. Amiri Oghan, R. Ataei, M. Gholamhosseini, B. Alizadeh,
Volume 9, Issue 2 (8-2019)
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In order to study the response of 120 genotypes of rapeseed (including 100 hybrids and 20 parents) in terms of cold stress tolerance, an experiment was conducted in α-lattice design with two replications under normal (September) and late sowing (October) conditions during two years. Combined analysis of variance showed that genotypes were significantly different at 1% and there was a significant genetic variation among the studied genotypes. In addition, there was a significant difference between the environments (normal and late sowing) at 1% in both years and the effect of late sowing on the yield of rapeseed was different from that of normal sowing. Total mean of seed yield in non-stressed condition was 4.9 ton/ha and in cold stress condition was 2.72 t/ha (34% reduction compared to normal sowing conditions). Principal component analysis (PCA) using six indices of cold stress tolerance (MP, GMP, HARM, TOL, SSI and STI) showed that the first two components justify about 99.85% of the variation in the population. The biplot of first and second components divided the genotypes into four different groups and identified 29 high yielding and cold tolerant genotypes. Similarly, cluster analysis divided the genotypes into four different groups and grouping of genotypes using cluster analysis showed good agreement with the results of principal component analysis. Correlation between different indices of stress tolerance and yield in stress (YP) and non- stress (YS) condition showed that TOL and SSI had positive correlation with YP and negative correlation with YS. Furthermore, the four indices of MP, GMP, HARM and STI showed positive and significant correlation with yield in both stressed and non-stress conditions. The results of this study showed that the STI index has a high efficiency in selection of rapeseed genotypes for cold tolerance and can be successfully applied in breeding programs.
Y. Hosseini, J. Saleh, M. R. Chakerolhosseini,
Volume 10, Issue 2 (7-2020)
Abstract
Knowing the trees nutritional status is necessary for achieving balanced fertilization in orchards. One approach for determining the nutritional status of orchards is the compositional nutrient diagnosis method. In the present research this method was performed to evaluate the nutritional status of three important areas of lime cultivation in Hormozgan province, south of Iran, during 2014 and 2015. Comparison between the obtained results and standard nutrient concentrations in lime revealed that nitrogen, potassium, and manganese deficiency were the most limiting factors for lime production in Hormozgan lime orchards. Moreover, excess phosphorus, chlorine, iron, and boron showed negative effect on the fruit yield of lime. The optimum concentrations of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and chlorine in the lime leaves in the studied orchards for achieving 150 kg fruit per tree were 2.88, 0.28, 1.31, 0.27% and those of iron, manganese, zinc, copper and boron were 222.26, 11.57, 4.63, 6.67, and 222.80 mg/kg DW, respectively. Therefore, it is recommended that using nutrients such as nitrogen, manganese and potassium must be given a priority in these orchards. Furthermore, some approaches like leaching fraction and supplying N-NO3 fertilizers should be utilized to mitigate the negative effects of boron and chlorine on the plant growth and yield.
E. Hosseini, J. Jamalian,
Volume 10, Issue 3 (fall 2006)
Abstract
Consumption of foods with low glycemic index (G.I.) by diabetic patients helps maintain their blood sugar at acceptable levels. Ordinary jam has a high G.I. The purpose of the present investigation was to prepare a dietetic jam using nutritive and non-nutritive sweeteners. The investigation was carried out in four steps. First, glycyrrhizin was extracted from licorice extract powder, its ammonium form was prepared, and its purity was assay by HPLC. Secondly, based on a completely randomized design various types of jam were prepared using different combinations of sorbitol, fructose and ammonium glycyrrhizin. Thirdly, the prepared jams and their reference controls were evaluated for color, flavor, texture and overall acceptability by a selected taste-panel and were also subjected to physical analysis using Hunter Lab colorimeter and Bostwick consistometer. Two jam preparations were finally selected on the basis of their overall acceptability. Finally, glycemic indices of the selected jams were determined using NIDDM volunteers. The results showed that ammonium-glycyrrhizin enhances the overall acceptability of the selected product (P<0.05). As G.I. values for the selected jams were low (23.5 and 23.9), their consumption by diabetic patients and their production on a commercial scale are recommended.
