Improving Effects of Mild Cold Stress and Salicylic Acid on Growth and Physiology of Periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus Don.)

Azizolah Khandan-Mirkohi; Mahdieh Khalili Halbi; Seyed Alireza Salami; Hosein Lesani

Volume 4, Issue 1 , June 2017, , Pages 67-78

https://doi.org/10.22059/ijhst.2017.208435.126

Abstract
  To study effects of salicylic acid (SA) treatments (0, 0.5, 1 and 2 mM) in two forms of seed priming (for 24 h) and spraying on seedling at 4-6 leaf stage an experiment was conducted on periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus Don.) with and without exposure to a mild cold stress of 8 °C (for 32 h). Seeds ...  Read More