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R. Amoaghaei,
Volume 11, Issue 40 (7-2007)
Abstract
Ferula ovina Boiss. is one of grazing species whose seed germination faces certain problems. The dormancy characteristics of and optimum conditions for seed germination of this species have not been investigated so far. The present research was designed to investigate the effect of GA3 and moist chilling on seed germination of this plant. At first, a factorial the experiment in a completely randomized design with 6 replicates was performed to evaluate the factors: cold period in 0-3 °C (0,3,5,7,9 weeks), GA3 concentrations (0,500,1000 PPm) and time of GA3 (before cold, during cold, after cold). In the second experiment, the effect of cold duration and GA on T50 Ferula seed was investigated in 6 replications. The best treatment was moist chilling for 7 weeks at 3 C or 3 weeks of moist chilling together with soaking in 500 PPm GA3 solution for 12 h. These treatments significantly increased germination percentage and decreased the time of for germination by 50% (T50) compared to control. The addition of GA3, together with cold duration was more effective than its application before cold period, addition of GA3 after cold period, no further increase in germination occurred. Also increasing GA3 concentration (500 to 1000 PPm) did not have any significant effect on the percentage of germination and could not replace the total need for pre chilling. The results showed that Ferula ovina seeds display an endophysiological dormancy that can be released by GA3 and moist chilling treatment.
M Naseri, M Rezai, M Abasi, S Jam, H Hosseini, O Sabzevari,
Volume 12, Issue 46 (1-2009)
Abstract
Common kilka were chilled during 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 days to determine the influence of such storage times of fish over the quality of the final canned product. For this propose, common factors for determination of fish quality (moisture, total lipid, free fatty acid, peroxide, thiobarbituric acid and fatty acid profile) were selected and compared with the formation of fluorescence compounds in fish tissue and filling media of canned kilka. In this work common indices showed higher oxidative and hydrolytic rancidity of canned samples compared to raw material but the trend of deterioration with the increase of chilled storage time was not well shown. However, filling media fluorescence compounds was significantly increased with the increase of chilled storage time and the decrease of fish primary quality (P< 0.05). According to the present results, fluorescence detection of interaction compounds can provide a good technique to assess quality differences in the final product as its relates to the quality of the raw material used.