Md. Parvez Anwar^1,*, Md. Ariful Islam Khalid¹, A. K. M. Mominul Islam¹, Sabina Yeasmin¹, Sharif Ahmed², Adel Hadifa³, Ismail A. Ismail⁴, Akbar Hossain⁵, Ayman EL Sabagh^6,*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.90, No.5, pp. 1491-1506, 2021, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2021.015822

Abstract Seed priming has proved to be an effective pre-germination seed invigoration technique for different crops to improve seed and seedling performance under different abiotic stresses. In Bangladesh, winter rice is very often exposed to cold waves just after sowing in the nursery bed resulting in poor seed germination and seedling emergence, yellowish and thin seedlings production, and a very low survival rate. Seed priming may mitigate the cold stress during seed germination and seedling emergence and helps in the quality seedling production of winter rice. To evaluate the efficacy of different seed priming techniques in increasing seedling emergence, growth, vigor… More >

Jiménez-Vázquez P¹, JA Rangel-Lucio², M Mendoza-Elos¹, F Cervantes-Ortíz¹, JG Rivera-Reyes¹

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.83, pp. 83-91, 2014, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2014.83.083

Abstract The production and quality of garlic (Allium sativum L.) depend on agronomics management, physiological and sanitary characteristics of bulbs or bulbils used at sowing, and economic resources. The objective of this assay was to evaluate the effects of garlic bulb and bulbil sizes, and of plant density, on seedling emergence, and garlic bulb yield and quality cv. Taiwan. The garlic bulbs and bulbils classified and selected by size were made from Extra Flor, Gigante and Jumbo garlic bulbs. They were sown at three plant densities (333000, 285710 and 250000 plants/ha) in a split plot experimental design. During garlic growth, the… More >