Mohsen Farshadfar; Ali Ashraf Jafari; Iraj Rezaie; Ezzat allah Farshadfar; Farzad Moradi; Hooshmand Safari
Volume 20, Issue 1 , June 2013, , Pages 182-198
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Drought resistance of forage yield for 36 accessions of Festuca arundinacea were examined in randomized complete block design with three replications in both irrigated and rainfed environments. Significant variation (P<0.01) for forage dry matter yield was observed between the environments and genotypes. ...
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Drought resistance of forage yield for 36 accessions of Festuca arundinacea were examined in randomized complete block design with three replications in both irrigated and rainfed environments. Significant variation (P<0.01) for forage dry matter yield was observed between the environments and genotypes. The results of mean comparisons showed that accessions 6 (Isfehan), 7 (Isfehan), 15 (Tavankesh), 25 (Australia), 26 (America) and 31 (Australia) had higher values for forage dry matter yield, in both environment conditions. Drought resistance indices of genotypes were measured for forage dry matter yield of two environment conditions including sensitivity to stress index (SSI), tolerance (TOL), mean productivity (MP), drought tolerant index (DTI), harmonic mean (MH) and geometrical mean of productivity (GMP). Variance analysis of drought resistance indices showed that accessions had significant variation (P<0.01). The first and second components from principal component analysis were accounted for 61.5 and 37.7 percent of variation among accessions for drought resistance indices, respectively. The indices of MP, DTI, MH and GMP as well as forage dry matter yield of stress and non-stress environments had the greatest share in first component. Also, these indices showed significant and positive correlation with forage dry matter yield of stress and non-stress environments, and based on these indices, the accession 6 (Esfahan), 7 (Esfahan), 31 (Australia) and 26 (America), showed the most resistance to drought stress. Our results were confirmed by cluster analysis.
Hooshmand Safari; Ali Ashraf Jafari
Volume 19, Issue 4 , March 2013, , Pages 640-654
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Drought resistance of 24 accessions of Agropyron trichophorum was examined based on forage yield in a complete block design with three replications under normal and dry land farming system. Drought resistance indices of genotypes were measured for forage dry matter yield of two environment conditions ...
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Drought resistance of 24 accessions of Agropyron trichophorum was examined based on forage yield in a complete block design with three replications under normal and dry land farming system. Drought resistance indices of genotypes were measured for forage dry matter yield of two environment conditions including sensitivity to stress index (SSI), tolerance (TOL), mean productivity (MP), drought tolerant index (DTI), mean harmonic (MH) and geometrical mean of productivity (GMP). According to the results of variance analysis of drought resistance indices, significant variation was observed among accessions. Results of mean comparisons showed that genotypes 10 (Semirom), 23 (Mazandaran), 24 (Gorgan), 5 (Chaharmahal), 17 (Yasuj) and 9 (Eghlid) had higher values for forage dry matter yield in both environment conditions. With regard to the drought resistance indices, genotypes 10 (Semirom), 23 (Mazandaran) and 24 (Gorgan), showed the most resistance to drought stress. Obtained results were confirmed by results of cluster analysis and principle component analysis.
Seyed Taghi Mirhaji; Abbas Ali Sanadgol; Hasan Yeganeh
Volume 19, Issue 3 , December 2012, , Pages 522-534
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This research was conducted at Homand Absard research station, 70km east of Tehran, to study the establishment and survival of 10 accessions of Elytrigia libanoticus L. The experiment began in 2003 and continued until 2006. Of each accession, 25 individuals were cultivated on 13-meter lines at 50cm intervals. ...
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This research was conducted at Homand Absard research station, 70km east of Tehran, to study the establishment and survival of 10 accessions of Elytrigia libanoticus L. The experiment began in 2003 and continued until 2006. Of each accession, 25 individuals were cultivated on 13-meter lines at 50cm intervals. Cultivation lines were 75cm apart. Vigor, survival, forage and seed yield as well as growth parameters were recorded annually. The aim of the study was to determine the best accessions in view of survival and establishment. Obtained data in different years were entered in Excel and were analyzed with IRRISTAT software. Afterward, interaction effects of accessions and environment and additive main effects of the collected data were calculated using AMMI method in a randomized complete block design (RCBD). Mean comparisons were performed using Duncan's Multiple Range Test at 5% level. According to the results, there were significant differences among studied accessions at 1% level of probability during the study. Accession no. 10627 was identified as the best one while accessions 10624, 10628 and 10633 showed the lowest survival respectively