Seed Treatment with Biostimulants Extracted from Weeping Willow (Salix babylonica) Enhances Early Maize Growth [PDF]
Plants, 2021 Biostimulants can be used as innovative and promising agents to address current needs of sustainable agriculture. Weeping willow tree (Salix babylonica) extracts are rich in many bioactive compounds, including, but not limited, to salicylates and ...
Hande Mutlu-Durak, Bahar Yildiz Kutman
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Polymerase Chain Reaction-Assisted Evaluation of the Efficacy of Seed-Treatment Prevention of Sporisorium reilianum Infection in Sorghum Seedlings [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 Head smut, caused by Sporisorium reilianum [(Kuhn) Langdon and Fullerton], is a major disease of sorghum. Seed treatment is considered to be the most effective way to control the disease; however, the pathogen can infect at the seedling stage and the ...
Zhi Zhang +4 more
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Tryptophan Seed Treatment Improves Morphological, Biochemical, and Photosynthetic Attributes of the Sunflower under Cadmium Stress [PDF]
PlantsTryptophan, as a signal molecule, mediates many biotic and environmental stress-induced physiological responses in plants. Therefore, an experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of tryptophan seed treatment in response to cadmium stress (0, 0.15 ...
Mujahid Hussain +6 more
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Recent Advances in Nano-Enabled Seed Treatment Strategies for Sustainable Agriculture: Challenges, Risk Assessment, and Future Perspectives [PDF]
Nano-Micro Letters, 2023 Guoyin Kai +2 more
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The effect of halopriming on seed germination of (Salvia aegyptiaca) under condition of salinity stress [PDF]
علوم و فناوری بذر ایران, 2023 Salinity stress is one of the most important factors limiting plant growth, which has a negative effect on seed germination, poor product quality and plant yield.
Mohammad Pichand +3 more
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Soil water restriction and performance of soybean seeds treated with phytosanitary products
Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola e Ambiental, 2021 The effect of phytosanitary products on the initial performance of soybean crops under soil water deficit conditions was determined via seed treatment before and after storage.
Everson R. Carvalho +5 more
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Acta Agriculturae Slovenica, 2022 This study was performed to appraise the effects of several seed pretreatment solutions and priming time on seed germination indices and growth characteristics of Hibiscus sabdariffa L. in various salt stress levels. Seed priming was accomplished by KCl (
Mostafa AHMADIZADEH +2 more
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Horticulturae, 2023 Seedborne pathogens represent a critical issue for successful agricultural production worldwide. Seed treatment with plant protection products constitutes one of the first options useful for reducing seed infection or contamination and preventing disease
Laura Orzali +6 more
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Plants, 2022 Recently, much attention has been paid to the use of low-temperature plasmas and plasma-activated water (PAW) in various areas of biological research. In addition to its use in medicine, especially for low-temperature disinfection and sterilization, a ...
Jana Jirešová +3 more
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Agronomy, 2021 Neonicotinoids have been implicated as a contributing factor to the observed decreases in honey bee populations. It has been suggested that honey bees can be exposed to seed-treated neonicotinoids through pollen and nectar from treated plants.
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