Iranian Journal of Field Crop Science

Iranian Journal of Field Crop Science

Evaluation the performance of some of Iran’s native fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill.) accessions under drought stress condition

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
Faride Noroozi Shahri 1
Majid Pouryousef 2
Afshin Tavakoli 2
Jalal Saba 3
Alireza Yazdinezhad 4
1 M.Sc. student, Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran
3 Associate Professor, Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran
4 Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacognosy, Zanjan University of Medical Science, Zanjan, Iran
10.22059/ijfcs.2015.54045
Abstract
In order to evaluate the effect of drought stress on grain yield and its components of fennel accessions, a field experiment was conducted as a split plot based on complete randomized block design with three replications. This experiment was conducted in research farm of Agricultural faculty of Zanjan University in 2012. In this study water stress in two levels included control and drought stress at reproductive stage were assigned to the main plots and five Iranian accessions of fennel included Zanjan, Lorestan, Esfahan, Hamedan and Kashan were assigned to the sub plots. The results showed that the effect of drought stress on grain yield and its components, biomass yield, grain essential oil percent and essential oil yield was significant (p≤0.05). Also there were significant differences between Fennel populations about all studied traits. Majority of measured traits decreased under drought stress condition. So the highest grain yield (3284 kg/ha) was obtained in Zanjan accession and control conditions and the lowest amount of mentioned trait (1306 kg/ha) was obtained in Esfahan accession under drought stress condition. Kashan and Isfahan accessions had the highest and lowest essential oil yield respectively.
Keywords
Drought stress
Essential oil percentage
Fennel
Grain yield
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  • Receive Date 26 December 2013
  • Revise Date 08 September 2014
  • Accept Date 11 January 2015
  • Publish Date 21 March 2015