Rice (Oryza sativa L.) provides about 55–80% of the total calories for people in South Asia,
Southeast Asia, and Latin America. Elsewhere, it represents a high-value commodity crop …

Since the publication of the third edition of the Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress,
continuous discoveries in the fields of plant and crop environmental stresses and their …

This paper reviews the uses, properties and manufacture of the main array of 'seed
enhancement technologies' that are implemented in current commercial practice, with a …

This book is the field's most complete, up-to-date text on plant propagation. It now contains
colour figures throughout, promoting learning and making it an even more useful working …

An experiment was conducted to improve the hot pepper seed performance under salinity
stress conditions. The effects of priming with an optimized dose (1 mM) of sodium chloride …

This study was carried out during the two summer seasons of 2014 and 2015 on pepper
(Capsicum annuum L.) cv. California Wonder. The goals of this investigation were …

Seed is an important component of agriculture, contributing significantly to the booming
production of food and feed crops across the different agro-ecological regions of the world …

Production of high-quality, vigorous tissue-culture-derived propagules requiles efficient
ways for the enhancement of their post-transplanting ability for water management …

The seed priming process is a physiological method that involves seed hydration (usually
within 10–20% of full imbibition) and effective enough for enhancement of seed germination …

Laboratory tests and two field experiments were conducted in RCB design in 2006 and 2007
at the Research Farm of the University of Tabriz, Iran, to evaluate the effects of hydro and …