scholarly journals Effect of plant growth regulators and organic manure on some morphological characters, biomass and essential oil yield of dragonhead (Dracocephalum moldavica) / Augalų augimo reguliatorių ir organinių trąšų poveikis darželinės žiomenės (Dracocephalum moldavica) morfologiniams požymiams, biomasei ir eterinio aliejaus išeigai

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yousef Nasiri

AbstractTo study the effect of farmyard manure and plant growth regulators on yield and essential oils of dragonhead, an outdoor experiment was conducted in Maragheh, Iran. The experiment was carried out based on randomized complete block design with three replications. Three amounts of farmyard manure (FYM) including 0, 10 and 20 t/ha together with foliar growth regulators including 0, salicylic acid (SA), ascorbic acid (ASc) and SA + ASc were used. The results revealed that application of 10 and 20 t/ha farmyard manure significantly increased plant height and the number of lateral stems. However, application of 20 t/ha led to the increase of the number of the main and flowering stems, biomass and essential oil percentage of dragonhead compared to control. The effect of growth regulators on the number of lateral and flowering stems, and biomass was significant: foliar application of SA and ASc separately or in combination increased the number of lateral stems; however, the number of flowering stems and biomass of dragonhead increased only when both growth regulators were used in combination (SA + ASc). The results also indicated that the highest length of inflorescence (13.57 cm) and essential oil yield (41.83 kg/ha), by 31.4 and 126.3% increment, respectively, were observed under foliar application of 20 t/ha farmyard manure together with SA + ASc application compared to the control.

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 619-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahsa Roodbaraky ◽  
Ali Mehrafarin ◽  
Farahnaz Khalighi-Sigaroodi ◽  
Hassanali Naghdi Badi

<p>Background &amp; aim: Bioactive compounds and plant growth regulators could change a plant’s essential oil content and composition. In this study, the effect of bioactive compounds and plant growth regulators on lippia citriodora was investigated.<br />Objective: This experiment was done with three replications on the basis of factorial experiment in randomized complete block design. The bio-regulators were sprayed in four levels, i.e. distilled water, 50 ppm gibberellic acid (GA3) + 50 ppm indole-3-butyric acid (IBA), 50 ppm GA3 + 100 ppm IBA, and 100 ppm GA3 + 50 ppm IBA. The chitosan was sprayed in two levels: distilled water and 400 ppm chitosan. The methanol was sprayed in two levels: distilled water and 5% v/v methanol. The essential oil was extracted by hydrodistillation method and analyzed by GC and GC/MS.<br />Results: Thirty-two compounds were identified, representing 95.08% of the total essential oil. The main components were E-citral (geranial) (25.02%), Z-citral (neral) (16.04%), ar-curcumene (10.37%), caryophyllene oxide (9.56%), spathulenol (6.83%), limonene (4.99%) and (E)-caryophyllene (2.29%). The studied traits were significantly affected (p &lt; 0.01) by the interaction of bioregulators, methanol and chitosan application.<br />Conclusion: Foliar application of IBA, GA3, chitosan and methanol could increase aromatic values of L. citriodora essential oil.</p>


2021 ◽  
pp. 71-76
Author(s):  
BIPUL KUMAR MANDAL

The experiment was carried out on ten-year-old Amarapali mango (Mangifera indica L) in randomized block design with seventeen treatments with three replications at BAU, Ranchi to study the effect of foliar application of nitrogen and plant growth regulators on bearing and physico-chemical constituent and self life of mango. Among the different treatments, application of 200ppm ethephon had most favourable effect in causing earliness in panicle emergence days (16.0 days), initiation of first flower (12.3 days) and days to initiation of fruit set (10.3 days) over control. Whereas application of 2000ppm triadimefon in combination with 2% urea increased intensity of flowering shoot to the extent of88.5% in fruit plant. The maximum number of fruit set per panicle (44.7), fruit retention (12.1%) and number of harvested fruit per tree (194.4) were observed with combined use of 100ppm SA and 2% urea as compared to control. The highest TSS (25.1 0Brix) and reducing sugar (3.0%) content were registered under 100ppm GA3, while the highest phenol (2.84mg/100g) was recorded from the fruits of the plants sprayed with 200ppm ethephon in combination with 2% urea. However, minimum (11.1%) physiological loss in weight (PLW) was recorded in 100ppm SA along with 2% urea.


Author(s):  
M. Qandeel ◽  
A. Jabbar ◽  
F. U. Haider ◽  
A. L. Virk ◽  
N. U. Ain

Maize is a widely grown cereal crop worldwide, butthe heat stress and delayed sowing of maize are major constraints that result in declining the maize productivity.Therefore, the current study was designed to investigate the growth promoting effect of different growth regulators i.e., salicylic acid, methyl jasmonate, and humic acid at multiple sowing times in  spring maize. Experiment was laid out in randomized complete block design having split-plot arrangement with three replications having plot size of 6m × 2.25m.The yield contributing agronomic parameters were recorded and analyzed statistically by using Fisher’s analysis of variance technique and treatment means were contrasted by Least significance difference having 5% probability test. Results revealed that early and delayed sowing of maize tended to decline the maize productivity and grain yield. Maximum yield and yield contributing traits were observed in S1 (recommended sowing, i.e., 20-02-2017). The plant growth regulators significantly influenced the productivity of maize and minimized heat stress. The interaction between sowing dates and plant growth regulators were also significant. Among plant growth regulators, the foliar application of methyl jasmonate resulted to produce maximum biological, grain yield, 1000-grain weight, and harvest index, which were 23.04, 36.12, 14.06 and 7.87%, respectively higher than the control.The study reported that delayed sowing of maize declined the production of maize due to the gradual rise of temperature in March and plant growth regulators had the potential to minimize the heat stress and productivity of maize.


2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (no 1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kousika. S ◽  
Ajish Muraleedharan ◽  
K. Sha ◽  
P.K. karthikeyan ◽  
C. Praveen Sampath Kumar ◽  
...  

Tagetes is a genus of annual, perennial or herbaceous plant in the family Asteraceae. Most of the species have pinnate green leaves. Blooms are naturally occurring in golden, orangeyellow, and white colour, often with maroon highlights. Floral heads are 4 to 6 cm in diameter, generally with both ray florets and disc florets. The present study was conducted at the post graduate research laboratory at Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, Annamalai University to find out the “Effect of plant growth regulators on flowering and yield of African marigold (Tagetes erecta Linn)”. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design with three replications. There were ten treatments, viz., GA3 100 ppm, GA3 200 ppm and GA3 300 ppm, NAA 100 ppm, NAA 200 ppm, NAA 300 ppm, Ethrel 50 ppm, Ethrel 100 ppm, and Ethrel 150 ppm and control. Among the growth regulators tried, GA3 200 ppm as foliar application on 30 and 60 days after transplanting registered the highest values for plant characters like plant height (47.1 cm), number of branches ( 35.1), days taken to first flower bud appearance (39.3 days), days taken to flower opening (37.6 days), longevity of flower (11.17 days), stalk length (12.1 cm), diameter of flower (7.8 cm), number of flowers per plant (40.3), weight of the single flower (9.1 g), yield of flowers per plant (337 g) and flower yield per plot (11.1 kg). From the present study, it is recommended that spraying of GA3 200 ppm on 30 and 60 days after transplanting improved yield and quality of African marigold flowers.


2022 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-18
Author(s):  
Md Ehsanullah ◽  
Ahasan Ullah Khan ◽  
Md Kamruzzam ◽  
Sarah Tasnim

A field study was conceded to assess the effect of plant growth regulators on growth and quality flower production of chrysanthemum at Horticulture Research Centre (HRC), Gazipur, Bangladesh. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with ten (10) treatments and three replications. The treatments of plant growth regulators concentration were T1-50 ppm GA3, T2-100 ppm GA3, T3-150 ppm GA3, T4-400 ppm CCC, T5-600 ppm CCC, T6-800 ppm CCC, T7-250 ppm MH, T8-500 ppm MH, T9-750 ppm MH and, T10-Control. The maximum spreading of plant (27.0 cm) was observed when plants were treated with GA3 @ 150 ppm where the minimum plant spread (16.8 cm) was recorded in plants treated with CCC @ 800 ppm. The higher number of suckers (33) per pot was produced when pots were treated with GA3 @ 150 ppm whereas, application of CCC at three different concentrations produced lower number of suckers.  The highest number of flower (40) was recorded with 150 ppm GA3, where minimum number of flowers (25) per pot in 800 ppm CCC. The plants sprayed with 50 ppm GA3 took 48 days to flower initiation, whereas, it took 70 days with 750 ppm MH. the highest plants recorded (7.40 cm) with 800 ppm CCC, whereas, lowest size (6.50 cm) was obtained with the application of 500 ppm MH. The maximum vase life of flowers was recorded for the treatment 800 ppm CCC (15 days), which was at par with 13 days vase life obtained by spraying 600 ppm CCC. Therefore, it is concluded that the GA3 acted as growth promoter and the CCC acted as growth retardants on yield and quality of chrysanthemum.


Author(s):  
R. Sivakumar

Background: Horsegram is an important pulse crop grown as Rabi crop in Tamil Nadu. Kharif sown crop could not flowers may be because of more number of tendrils produced as compare to Rabi sown crop. Hence, an attempt was made to reduce the number of tendrils and induce flowering in horsegram during Kharif season by plant growth regulators. Methods: A field experiment was conducted to study the impact of plant growth regulators viz., salicylic acid (100 ppm), chlormequat chloride (CCC - 250 ppm), mepiquat chloride (250 ppm), tri iodo benzoic acid (TIBA - 200 ppm) and nitrobenzene (0.2%) on physiological traits and tendril growth associated with flowering in horsegram during Kharif. Different treatments were applied through foliar application at 25 Days after sowing. Result: Among the PGRs, foliar application of TIBA registered the lowest number of tendrils (2.3) followed by CCC (3.0) compared to other treatments. Higher root length of 16.8 cm and RWC of 82.3% was found in CCC treatment. CCC also registered the highest photosynthetic rate (27.15 µmol m-2 s-1), transpiration rate (18.06 mmol m-2 s-1) and lowest leaf temperature (26°C) compared to other treatments. The highest soluble protein content of 13.1 mg g-1 was also estimated in CCC treatment followed by mepiquat chloride (12.51 mg g-1). Sucrose phosphate synthase (SPS) activity did not show any significant difference between the treatments. Number of flowers buds formed per plant was zero and hence the flowering did not take place in any treatments. Among the plant growth regulators used, TIBA and CCC registered its positive action on reduced the number of tendrils and leaf temperature, but not enough to induce flowering under Kharif season.


2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-98
Author(s):  
MHA Rashid

Gladiolus is an excellent cut flower grown throughout the world for its spikes with florets of massive form, brilliant colours, attractive shapes, varying size and long shelf life. However, major constraint for gladiolus cultivation is the corm dormancy. Plant growth regulators (PGRs) play an important role in breaking dormancy and promote more number of quality corm and cormel productions in gladiolus. Therefore, an experiment was conducted to study the influence of corm size and plant growth regulators on corm and cormel production of gladiolus during the period from October 2017 to April 2018 at the Landscaping section of the Department of Horticulture, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh. The two-factor experiment included two corm sizes viz., 3-4 cm and 4.1-5 cm, and two PGRs viz., GA3 @ 250, 500 and 750 ppm; and NAA @ 100, 200 and 300 ppm along with tap water as control. The experiment was laid out in a randomised complete block design (RCBD) with three replications. The results revealed that the corm size and PGRs at different concentrations significantly influenced the corm and cormel producing attributes of gladiolus. Maximum number of corms and cormels per plant, maximum weight of single corm, maximum weight of corms and cormels per plant, biggest size of single corm, highest yield of corms and cormels per hectare were recorded from 4.1-5 cm sized corms and GA3 @ 500 ppm, compared to rest of the treatments. It was observed that combined treatments had significant influence on all the parameters studied. The treatment combination of 4.1-5 cm sized corms and GA3 @ 500 ppm was found to be best in terms of corm and cormel production of gladiolus.Progressive Agriculture 29 (2): 91-98, 2018


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