Mahshid Souri; Ehsan Zandi Esfahan; Nadia Kamali
Volume 25, Issue 3 , November 2018, , Pages 524-535
Abstract
Investigating the effect of environmental factors on the yield of forage plants is one of the necessities for improvement, rehabilitation, and development of rangelands. Festuca ovina is of perennial grasses. This species is found to be abundant in the semi-steppe rangelands of the country due to its ...
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Investigating the effect of environmental factors on the yield of forage plants is one of the necessities for improvement, rehabilitation, and development of rangelands. Festuca ovina is of perennial grasses. This species is found to be abundant in the semi-steppe rangelands of the country due to its adaptability to dehydration and low temperatures of -20 ° C. This rangeland species plays an important role in providing forage, soil stabilization, erosion prevention, and soil conservation in semi steppe rangelands. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of salinity and pollutant factors on the performance of Festuca ovina. This experiment was conducted in greenhouse conditions in a factorial arrangement based on a completely randomized design under the influence of the first factor of copper oxide treatment at two levels (50 and 100 mg / l), copper nano-oxide at two levels (50 and 100 mg / l), and control treatment, and the second factor of sodium chloride treatment at three levels (0, 200 and 400 mM) in five replicates on Festuca ovina in a hydroponic greenhouse. After two months of stress, changes in chlorophyll, potassium and air length were measured. Data were analyzed using a factorial experimental design and SNK multiple range test in SPSS.18 software. According to the results of this study, the Festuca ovina species, in addition to the ability to establish and grow in each of the conditions of salinity and pollutant stress, has the ability to establish in both conditions (salinity + pollutant). Therefore, it can be of particular interest to planners, managers of natural resources and the environment and recommended as a consistent species to improve the rangelands of these regions.
Seyyed Ali Hosseini; Ali Ehsani
Volume 24, Issue 3 , October 2017, , Pages 635-645
Ahmad Mousavi; Ali Ehsani; Farhad Aghajanlou
Volume 23, Issue 2 , September 2016, , Pages 208-197
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Phenology studies are one of the appropriate tools to determine the utilization time of rangelands.This research was aimed to study the phenology of Festuca ovina in the Bademestan rangelands of Zanjan province, located at 45 km northeast of Zanjan for four years. The results showed that the study species ...
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Phenology studies are one of the appropriate tools to determine the utilization time of rangelands.This research was aimed to study the phenology of Festuca ovina in the Bademestan rangelands of Zanjan province, located at 45 km northeast of Zanjan for four years. The results showed that the study species had a very special reaction to the rainfall amount and time, especially during the growing season i.e., from the onset of spring to July. In other words, no reproductive growth and formation of flowers were recorded in 2007-2008, whose rainfall was much less than average during the growing season (57.2 mm in the spring quarter). A sharp decline in rainfall during the spring caused the species not to complete its phenology and produce seeds. The year 2009-2010 had much less rainfall as compared with the year 2007-2008; however, due to the good rainfall in spring 2010, Festuca ovina could complete all phenological stages and flowering stage occurred. Therefore, it seems that the spring rains are vital for this species to complete the plant life cycle.
Taghi Mirhaji; Farhang Ghasryani; Farhad Azhir
Volume 22, Issue 1 , June 2015, , Pages 184-193
Abstract
This research was aimed to determine the allowable use of Bromus tomentellus, Festuca ovina and Stipa hohenackeriana in Firouzkooh rangeland during 2006 to 2010. Treatments included different harvesting intensities of 25%, 50%, 75% and control, performed on 40 medium-sized individuals of each species. ...
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This research was aimed to determine the allowable use of Bromus tomentellus, Festuca ovina and Stipa hohenackeriana in Firouzkooh rangeland during 2006 to 2010. Treatments included different harvesting intensities of 25%, 50%, 75% and control, performed on 40 medium-sized individuals of each species. Data were analyzed in a split plot in time design by SAS software and means were compared using Duncan. Results showed that the effects of treatment, year, and interaction effect of year*treatment were significant at 1% level of significance. In addition, the results of mean comparisons showed that the reduced forage yield was under the influence of harvesting intensities. In this regard, S.hohenackeriana and B.tomentellus were sensitive to drought while F.ovina was resistant to drought and more affected by the harvesting intensity. Our results clearly showed that a harvesting intensity of 25% and control treatment had no impact on the yield of species, leading to the reduced forage yield of the mentioned species. Therefore, an allowable use of 50% is recommended.
Ardovan Ghorbani; Ali Asghari
Volume 21, Issue 2 , August 2014, , Pages 368-381
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The relationship between the distribution of Festuca ovina and ecological factors such as topography, climatic and edaphic characteristics was investigated in 45 sites of Southeastern rangelands of Sabalan in Ardabil province.Within the determined sites, three large plots of ...
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The relationship between the distribution of Festuca ovina and ecological factors such as topography, climatic and edaphic characteristics was investigated in 45 sites of Southeastern rangelands of Sabalan in Ardabil province.Within the determined sites, three large plots of 10 × 10 m, 40 meters away from each other, were established along a 120–meter transect from lower slopes to highlands. The measurement of canopy cover parameters was performed in three plots with dimensions of 60 × 25 cm within the middle plot and the lower and upper plots were used as control. Different parameters including altitude, slope and aspect were calculated and averaged for three plots. In the middle plot, a soil profile was dug to a depth of 30 cm and soil samples were collected from two depths of 0-15 and 15-30 cm to measure soil parameters. Cluster analysis and principal components analysis (PCA) were used to classify the sites and the importance of parameters was determined by discriminate analysis (DA). Using multivariate analysis, the study sites were classified into four groups.The sites having high canopy cover percentage of F.ovina were classified in group 3, in which altitude, slope, and precipitation were higher than those of other groups, while temperature, salinity and pH were lower. This shows that this species is more compatible to higher altitudes and lower temperatures and dose not tolerate soil salinity. It is more compatible to a pH of 7.1 to 7.3. Organic matter, phosphorus and potassium will provide better conditions for growth. Results of principal component analysis showed that the two main components could explained 95% of the data variations, and the classification of sites using these two components confirmed the results of cluster analysis. According to the obtained results, the distribution of F.ovina was affected by several ecological factors including temperature, climate, soil, and aspect.
Hosein Azarnivand; Yaser Ghasemiaryan; Reza Yari; Mohammad Ali Zare Chahouki; Esfandyar Jahantab
Volume 19, Issue 2 , September 2012, , Pages 297-305
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The aim of this study was to investigate allelopathic activity of aerial and underground organs of mountain sagebrush (Artemisia aucheri) on seed germination features, root length, shoot length and seed vigor of Festuca ovina.For this purpose, species of mountain sagebrush were collected from Taleghan ...
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The aim of this study was to investigate allelopathic activity of aerial and underground organs of mountain sagebrush (Artemisia aucheri) on seed germination features, root length, shoot length and seed vigor of Festuca ovina.For this purpose, species of mountain sagebrush were collected from Taleghan rangelands in Tehran Province and then were dried in direct sunlight and grinded.Powder derived from aerial and underground organs to the amounts of 3, 6 and 9 grams were separately mixed with 900 grams of sand in completely randomized blocks with four replications. In each pot, 10 seeds were planted at a depth of 2-3 cm. Germination percentage, germination velocity, seed vigor, root length, and shoot length were measured. Data analysis was performed using MSTATC software and mean comparisons were carried out using Duncan's test. Results showed that there were no significant differences among measured factors. Also, the shoot and root lengths showed significant differences at probability levels of 5% and 1%, respectively. According to the results, Artemisia aucheri caused a reduction of root length in Festuca ovina.
Ghasemali Dianati-Tilaki; Bahman Shakarami; Masoud Tabari; Behzad Behtari
Volume 18, Issue 3 , September 2011, , Pages 452-462
Abstract
Salinity is one of the most important abiotic stresses that negatively affects the seed germination and growth of seedlings in plants. NaCl priming is of techniques to improve the seed performance and could increase germination percentage, growth of the seedlings and the mean time of seed germination ...
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Salinity is one of the most important abiotic stresses that negatively affects the seed germination and growth of seedlings in plants. NaCl priming is of techniques to improve the seed performance and could increase germination percentage, growth of the seedlings and the mean time of seed germination under salinity conditions. This study was conducted to improve the seed performance of Festuca ovina under salinity stress conditions. A factorial experiment was applied based upon a completely randomized design with three replications (50 seeds per Petri dish). The effects of priming with three optimized dose (15, 30 and 45 dS/m) of NaCl solution for 24 h at 22±2 oC under dark conditions were assessed for improving seed traits of sheep fescue. NaCl primed Seeds were also examined at different salinity levels) 0, 5, 10, 15 and 20 dS/m). Germination percentage and mean germination time were significantly affected by interaction of salinity and priming. Root length, shoot length and vigor index was not affected significantly by priming treatments in all salinity levels. Germination percentage of primed seeds especially in high salinity levels (15 and 20 dS/m) was greater than to non-primed seeds. The results showed that NaCl priming (especially at 45 dS/m for 24 h) in high salinity levels could increase the seed yield of Festuca ovina in terms of seed germination.