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Expression of Flowering Repressor Gene CsSVP, Carbohydrates, and Antioxidants Affected by Plant Growth Regulators in Saffron
Improving flower yield through lengthening flowering duration is a primary breeding objective in saffron (Crocus sativus L.). Asexual reproduction in saffron limits biodiversity and conventional breeding. Hence, ...
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Hybridization of wheat and Aegilops cylindrica: development, karyomorphology, DNA barcoding and salt tolerance of the amphidiploids
The development of salt‐tolerant genotypes is key to a better utilization of salinized irrigated lands. Given the relatively low genetic diversity within the cultivated wheats for salt tolerance, exploring the Ae...
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Photosynthetic and yield performance of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) under sowing in hot environment
Heat stress during the post-flowering and grain development stages is a key abiotic stress influencing grain yield in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). In this study, 64 wheat genotypes, in their terminal growth stag...
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Variation in bioactive compounds, antioxidant and antibacterial activity of Iranian Chrysanthemum morifolium cultivars and determination of major polyphenolic compounds based on HPLC analysis
In this study, chemical profiling, phenolic and flavonoid contents, as well as the antibacterial and antioxidant activity of 17 Iranian Chrysanthemum morifolium cultivars were evaluated. The high performance liqu...
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Morpho-physiological and gene expression responses of wheat by Aegilops cylindrica amphidiploids to salt stress
Aegilops cylindrica Host is one of the most salt-tolerant species in the Triticeae tribe. Amphidiploid plants derived from hybridization of ‘Roshan’ × Aegilops cylindrica and ‘Chinese Spring’ × Ae. cylindrica gen...
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Open AccessImaging Salt Uptake Dynamics in Plants Using PET
Soil salinity is a global environmental challenge for crop production. Understanding the uptake and transport properties of salt in plants is crucial to evaluate their potential for growth in high salinity soi...
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Genetic diversity of Iranian Chrysanthemum morifolium cultivars using morphological traits and sequence-related amplified polymorphism (SRAP) markers
Knowledge of genetic diversity and relatedness of cultivars; is essential for a successful breeding scheme. The present study was conducted to assess the genetic diversity of 30 Iranian Chrysanthemum morifolium c...
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Open AccessInheritance of fruit yield and quality in melon (Cucumis melo L.) grown under field salinity stress
Cultivation of salinity-tolerant crops can help mitigate salinization threats to soil and fresh water resources. This study was conducted to investigate the quantitative genetic basis of yield, yield component...
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Genetic analysis of sugar yield and physiological traits in sugar beet under salinity stress conditions
Salinity is one of the most important constraints in sugar beet production in Asia. An understanding the genetic basis of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) performance under salinity stress is crucial to gaining insight...
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Physiological alterations due to field salinity stress in melon (Cucumis melo L.)
This study was aimed to assess physiological responses of melon (Cucumis melo L.) cultivars to salinity stress under field conditions. Seventeen melon cultivars including 16 widely distributed native and one exot...
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Expression pattern of salt tolerance-related genes in Aegilops cylindrica
Aegilops cylindrica, a salt-tolerant gene pool of wheat, is a useful plant model for understanding mechanism of salt tolerance. A salt-tolerant USL26 and a salt-sensitive K44 genotypes of A. cyli...
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Manipulating Programmed Cell Death Pathways for Enhancing Salinity Tolerance in Crops
One of the key challenges for researchers is to obtain a deeper understanding of the strategies and mechanisms of plant adaptation to environmental stress that help overcome the limitations associated with cli...
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Oil and seed yield stability in a worldwide collection of safflower under arid environments of Iran
The genotype × environment interaction (GEI) have direct impact on stability of genotypes grown under varied environmental conditions. In the present study, the additive main effects and multiplicative intera...
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Association of SSR markers and morpho-physiological traits associated with salinity tolerance in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.)
The conventional screening methods for salinity tolerance are time-consuming, labor-intensive and have low throughput screening rate. Molecular marker-quantitative trait association can be used to increase the...
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Physiology of salinity tolerance in Aegilops cylindrica
Aegilops cylindrica species is one of the valuable gene pool of wheat for the understanding of salinity-tolerance mechanisms such as Na+ exclusion. Eighty-eight Ae. cylindrica genotypes w...
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Salinity tolerance of Aegilops cylindrica genotypes collected from hyper-saline shores of Uremia Salt Lake using physiological traits and SSR markers
Uremia Salt Lake, in North West Iran, has a hyper-saline water. A rare highly salinity-tolerant grass species, Aegilops cylindrica grows along its shores. Salinity tolerance of 44 genotypes of Ae. cylindrica, ma...
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Plasmon analysis in wheat alloplasmic lines using morphological and chloroplast microsatellite markers
Inheritance of plant traits mainly depends upon nuclear genes, cytoplasmic factors and their interactions. In the present study, 32 alloplasmic lines accompanied by a euplasmic parental line (control) were eva...
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Karyotype analysis and new chromosome number reports in Achillea species
Cytological analyses were performed in nineteen accessions belonging to seven Achillea species. The results indicate that two species, A. filipendulina and A. tenuifolia, are diploid (2n = 2x = 18) and three spec...
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Development and characterization of microsatellite markers for genomic analysis of yarrow (Achillea millefolium L.)
Yarrow (Achillea millefoilum L.) is an important medicinal plant with different medicinal and ornamental uses. In this study, SSR markers were developed for the first time from the genome A. millefolium using the...
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Evaluation of salinity tolerance in sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) using ion accumulation, proline and peroxidase criteria
Salt tolerance of sorghum varieties in terms of fresh weight, ion accumulations, proline content and peroxidase activity was analyzed in this study. Three sorghum varieties, Payam, Kimia, and Jambo, differing ...
