Iranian Journal of Horticultural Science

Iranian Journal of Horticultural Science

Effects of gibberellic acid and humic acid on some growth characters of Daffodil (Narcissus jonquilla cv. German)

Document Type : Full Paper

Authors
Yahya Mashahiri 1
Moazzam Hassanpour Asil 2
1 Former M. Sc. Student, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran
2 Professor, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran
10.22059/ijhs.2018.212700.1053
Abstract
In order to evaluate the effect of gibberellic acid and humic acid on some morphological and physiological traits of Narcissus cv. German, a factorial experiment was conducted in a completely randomized design with 2 factors, 12 treatments, 3 replications and 5 pots in each plot. The first factor was gibberellic acid at four levels with concentrations of zero (control), 150, 300 and 450 ppm which was carried out by immersing onions in the mentioned concentrations of gibberellic acid for 48 hours. The second factor was humic acid at three levels with concentrations of zero (control), 250 and 500 ppm which was carried out as a foliar application at the vegetative stage. Analysis of variance showed that the effects of gibberellic acid treatment on appearance of flowering stem, flowering time and flower diameter had a significant effect compared to control. Gibberellic acid and humic acid treatments had individually significant effects on total chlorophyll, carotenoid and diameter of narcissus bulbs. The most leaf area was also related to the interaction of gibberellic acid (300 ppm) and humic acid (500 ppm). In general, results of this study indicated that according to the studied traits, use of gibberellic acid (300 ppm) and humic acid (500 ppm) was the best treatments to improve the studied traits.
Keywords
carotenoid
Chlorophyll
Flower Diameter
flowering stem
Leaf area
Subjects
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Iranian Journal of Horticultural Science
Volume 48, Issue 4 - Serial Number 4
Winter 2018
Pages 875-886

  • Receive Date 25 July 2016
  • Revise Date 26 October 2016
  • Accept Date 26 October 2016