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The 3 rd <strong>International</strong> <strong>Symposium</strong> on Medicinal Plants, their Cultivation and Aspects of Uses
Topic (4): Cultivation of Medicinal Plants
4.1 Correlation Between Seed Indices of Foeniculum vulgare Under
Allelopathic Effects of Crocus sativus L.
Agah Fateme 1 , Sadrabadi Haghighi Reza 2 , Molafilabi Abdollah 3
1 Seed Science and Technology Department, Islamic Azad University. 2 Agronomy and Plant
Breeding Department, Islamic Azad University. 3 Research Institute of Food Science and
Technology, Iran.
<strong>Abstract</strong>: Foeniculum vulgare is a medical plant from Umbellifera (Apiaceae) family that can be
used in mixed cropping with Crocus sativus L. This is only possible if there is no allelopathy
between crops intercropped. To find out the allelopathic possibility of saffron corms on germination
indices of Foeniculum vulgare an experiment was performed in completely randomized design with
four replications and conducted in Seed Science and Technology laboratory in Faculty of
Agricultural of Islamic Azad University, Mashhad Branch in 2011. Treatments were five levels of
Crocus sativus L. corms water extract concentration (0, 25, 50, 75 and 100%). In this experiment,
some indices related to the seed vigour including mean time germination (MTG), mean daily
germination (MDG), daily germination speed (DGS), coefficient velocity germination (CVG),
seedling vigour indices (SVI) and radicle and plumule length measured. Data were analyzed with
SPSS software. Also probit analysis was used for studying the seed reaction to different levels of
saffron corms water extract concentration. Analysis of variance showed that effects of treatments
on all indices were significant, except on CVG. In correlation analysis, a significant relation
between all seed vigour indices were observed except for CVG with all other indices. There was a
negative correlation between DGS with %G, SVI and MDG. The results indicated the allelopathic
effects of saffron corms and showed that by increasing extract concentration all indices decreased
dramatically. The results from this study strongly suggest that allelopathy may be a possible
mechanism controlling the timing of germination and seed vigour in Foeniculum vulgare.
Key words: Allelopathic, Foeniculum vulgare, germination, saffron.
4.2 Field Performance of Vernonia anthelmintica Under the Agroclimatic
Conditions of Mansehra
Ahmad, I., Ahmad, Habib 2 , Hashmi, Ratooba S 3 ., Yasmin, A 4 ., Fazal, N 2 ., and
Khatoon, M 1 .
1 Department of Botany Hazara University Mansehra. 2 Department of Genetics Hazara University
Mansehra. 3 Department of Botany, University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Muzaffar Abad
4 Department of Environmental Sciences, Fatma Jinnah Women University, Rawalpendi, Pakistan.
<strong>Abstract</strong>: Vernonia anthelmintica (L.) Willd, an important medicinal plant newly introduced in
Pakistan, was tested for seed yield under the rainfed condition of Pakhal Plateu, Mansehra.
Performance of the germplasm was evaluated through sowing methods, seed rate, herbicide
application and plant density. The parameters analyzed included plant height, number of leaves
per plant, number of branches per plant, leaf area, number of capitula per plant and yield per
hectare. Analysis of variance showed highly significant differences for all the yield components.
The correlation coefficient indicated that seed yield was highly significant and positive correlated
with number of capitula per plant and number of branches per plant, significant and positive
correlation with plant height and non-significant positive correlation with leaf size and number of
leaves per plant. Similarly seed yield had very strong, highly significant and positive regression
with 7.867 and 5.602 regression coefficients for number of capitula and number of branches,
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