Mina Ghamemi RaeiniNejad; Hosein Sadeghi
Volume 24, Issue 4 , January 2018, , Pages 699-707
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The present study was conducted to evaluate the potential of carbon sequestration in plant organs (root, stem and leaf) of Zygophyllum atriplicoides and Gymnocarpus decander and soil at two depths (0-15 and 15-30cm). The experiment was conducted in the Saleh-Abad region, 41km north of Haji-Abad, Bandar-Abbas ...
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The present study was conducted to evaluate the potential of carbon sequestration in plant organs (root, stem and leaf) of Zygophyllum atriplicoides and Gymnocarpus decander and soil at two depths (0-15 and 15-30cm). The experiment was conducted in the Saleh-Abad region, 41km north of Haji-Abad, Bandar-Abbas Hormozgan, Iran, during 2012. Sampling of plant organs was performed by separating the leaf, stem and root. After determining the average dry weight of the study species, the content of organic carbon was calculated for both plant and soil. This study was carried out in two separate factorial experiments arranged using a randomized complete design. The first factor was the type of plant species in both experiments. The second factor was the plant organs in experiment I and different soil depths in experiment II. The results showed that the highest carbon sequestration was obtained at 0-15 cm soil depth. The effects of plant species and plant organs on the content of carbon stored in plant tissues was significant (P ≤0.05) and (P ≤0.01), respectively, while the interaction of those two factors had no significant effect on stored carbon. A significant difference was found between plant organs in terms of stored carbon. In both plants, the highest and lowest content of stored carbon was observed in stem and root, respectively. According to the results, the carbon content stored in Z. atriplicoides (45.09 Kg) was 10.7% more than that of G. decander (40.74 Kg). Overall, the results of this study indicated that the highest carbon sequestration was obtained with Z. atriplicoides in the Saleh-Abad region.
mohammad delaviz; hosein sadeghi; mansour Taghvaee
Volume 23, Issue 3 , January 2017, , Pages 578-592
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The present study was conducted to evaluate drought stress and subsequent recovery on growth and biochemical changes of three Atriplex species. The study was performed as factorial based on completely randomize design with six replicates. The treatments included three Atriplex species (A. lentiformis, ...
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The present study was conducted to evaluate drought stress and subsequent recovery on growth and biochemical changes of three Atriplex species. The study was performed as factorial based on completely randomize design with six replicates. The treatments included three Atriplex species (A. lentiformis, A. leucocalada and A. canescence) and four irrigation regimes (100 as control, 75% FC as light stress, 50% FC as severe drought, and no irrigation). The results showed that light and severe drought caused a significant reduction in growth of all three Atriplex species, and no irrigation treatment caused the loss of A. leucocalada and A. canescence. The recovery could offset the loss partly in all three species, especially A. lentiformis, so that there were no significant differences between control and 75% FC treatments. Tissue moisture percentage showed no significant difference in control, 75, and 50% FC. In A. lentiformis, no irrigation treatment caused a significant reduction in moisture percentage; however, recovery offset a considerable part of this loss. Water deficit treatments (75 and 50% FC) increased the activity of catalase, peroxidase and superoxide dismutase. The highest activity of all four enzymes was obtained in A. lentiformis. Generally, drought stress, depending on stress levels, reduced the growth and increased the antioxidant enzymes in all three-study species, and recovery, depending on species and stress levels, could offset a part of this loss. A. lentiformis showed the highest drought resistance and higher recovery ability, which might be due to the higher activity of antioxidant enzymes.
Fatemeh Enjavi; Mansour Taghvaie; Hossein Sadeghi; Alimorad Hasanli
Volume 22, Issue 2 , August 2015, , Pages 216-230
Abstract
Drought stress is a major constraint in arid and semiarid regions, such as Iran. The application of some soil conditioners, like superabsorbent polymers, could be effective in absorbing seasonal rain and suitable source of water for plant growth during dry seasons. The purpose of this study was to investigate ...
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Drought stress is a major constraint in arid and semiarid regions, such as Iran. The application of some soil conditioners, like superabsorbent polymers, could be effective in absorbing seasonal rain and suitable source of water for plant growth during dry seasons. The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficiency of superabsorbent polymers on improvement of Calotropis procera L. seedling under drought stress. The experimental design was a factorial arrangement in randomized complete blocks with six replicates. Treatments included drought stress at three levels of 100% fc, 75% fc, 50% fc, as well as superabsorbent polymers at four levels of 0, 2 , 4, 6 gr per kg of soil. Emergence percentage, emergence rate, shoot length, root length, leaf number, leaf area, shoot dry weight, root dry weight, leaf dry weight, seedling dry weight and water use efficiency were significantly affected by the interaction of drought and superabsorbent polymer. Our results indicated that under drought stress, high amounts of superabsorbent polymer had significant positive effects on shoot length, root length, leaf area, root dry weight and water use efficiency.