In collaboration Iranian Medicinal Plants Society
Agriculture
The Effect of Foliar Application of Seaweed Extract and Some Nutrients on Flowering and Apocartenoid Content in Saffron Stigma

Seyed Mohammad Moosavipoor; Hassan Feizi; hossein sahabi; Hamid-reza Fallahi

Volume 11, Issue 4 , April 2024, , Pages 371-391

https://doi.org/10.22048/jsat.2024.410290.1500

Abstract
  Recognizing the potential role of seaweed in improving saffron yield and the utilization of micronutrient elements like Ca, Mg, Fe, and Mn to enhance stigma yield, an experiment was conducted. The study investigated the impact of foliar spraying of seaweed extract and selected nutritional elements on ...  Read More

Biotechnology and genetics
Investigating apocarotenoids and the structure of genes related to their synthesis in cultivated and wild saffron species using HPLC and bioinformatics tools

Mehdi Hassanlou; Mohammad Reza Azimi Moghaddam; Seyed Alireza Salamii; Ehsan Mohsenifard

Volume 11, Issue 2 , July 2023, , Pages 183-197

https://doi.org/10.22048/jsat.2023.403233.1491

Abstract
  Cultivated saffron (Crocus sativus L.) boasts remarkable commercial value due to its possessing three pivotal metabolites: crocin, picrocrocin, and safranal. The significance of obtaining these metabolites, particularly crocin, from sources other than cultivated saffron has grown substantially, primarily ...  Read More

Biotechnology and genetics
Investigating the expression of some genes related to the production of apocarotenoids in the growth stages of stigma and tepal of cultivated saffron and two wild species

Mehdi Hassanlou; Mohammad Reza Azimi Moghaddam; Seyed Alireza Salami; Ehsan Mohsenifard

Volume 11, Issue 1 , April 2023, , Pages 71-85

https://doi.org/10.22048/jsat.2023.387897.1482

Abstract
  Agricultural saffron Crocus sativus L. is a medicinal, widely used and expensive plant and has important effective substances: crocin, picrocrocin and safranal, which gives it the characteristics of color, taste and smell. The search for new sources producing the aforementioned apocarotenoids makes the ...  Read More

Agriculture
Effect of various chemical and organic mulch types on soil phyisico-chemical characteristics and qualitative and quantitative yield of saffron in Qaenat region

Zohreh Natavan; Rooholla Moradi; Mahdi Naghizadeh; Nasibeh Pourghasemian

Volume 10, Issue 4 , February 2023, , Pages 325-341

https://doi.org/10.22048/jsat.2022.368175.1473

Abstract
  In order to study the effect of different chemical and organic mulch types on various soil characteristics and qualitative and quantitative yield of saffron (Crocus sativus L.), an experiment was conducted based on randomized complete block design with three replications at Qaen region in during 2018-2019. ...  Read More

Agriculture
Effects of bio fertilizer and nanoparticles of Fe on quantitative and qualitative properties of saffron (Crocus sativus L.) under salinity stress

Alijan Salariyan; Sohrab Mahmoodi; Mohammad. Ali Behdani; hamed kaveh

Volume 10, Issue 1 , April 2022, , Pages 3-18

https://doi.org/10.22048/jsat.2022.284650.1425

Abstract
  In order to investigate the effect of salinity levels, bio fertilizer and nano fertilizer of Fe on quantitative and qualitative characteristics of saffron, a factorial experiment was conducted as a combined analysis in location by a randomized complete block design with three replications. Bio fertilizer ...  Read More

Agriculture
Effect of concentration and frequency of silica foliar application on quantitative and qualitative characteristics of saffron

Mansoore Kermani; Shahram Amirmoradi

Volume 9, Issue 4 , January 2022, , Pages 323-341

https://doi.org/10.22048/jsat.2021.269270.1419

Abstract
  This research was carried out as factorial experiment basis on randomized block design with four replications on a three-year saffron farm in Mashhad at 2017/2018 crop year. The experimental factors were different concentrations of silica (0, 0.3, 0.5, 0.75, 1, 1.2 and 1.5 lit/ha) and the number of spraying ...  Read More

Processing, food industry and biochemistry
Changes in quality and composition of volatile compounds of saffron affected by storage time in two consecutive years

Jalal Ghanbari; Gholamreza Khajoei-Nejad

Volume 9, Issue 1 , April 2021, , Pages 29-41

https://doi.org/10.22048/jsat.2020.235429.1400

Abstract
  Modifications in saffron quality characteristics due to storage time between samples harvested from two consecutive years have not been studied well. For this purpose, saffron samples harvested from 2016 and 2017 were analyzed using proton transfer reaction-time of flight-mass spectrometry (PTR-TOF-MS) ...  Read More

Agriculture
Assessing the effect of irrigation management on economic yield and production of active ingredients of saffron medicinal plant (Crocus sativus L.) by application of organic fertilizer and nanocomposite superabsorbent polymers

Amin Ramezani; Hossein Aroiee; Majid Azizi; Ahmad Ahmadian

Volume 8, Issue 1 , February 2020, , Pages 3-18

https://doi.org/10.22048/jsat.2019.135749.1304

Abstract
  In order to find and recommend a method for improving vegetative and reproductive traits and economic yield of saffron using organic compounds of soil amendment, a split plot experiment including three irrigation intervals of 30, 50 and 70 days as main plots and three factors of vermicompost, Terracottem ...  Read More

Agriculture
The Study of the interaction of nitroxin biological fertilizer and irrigation management on quantitative and qualitative yield of saffron (Crocus sativus L.)

Ehsan Ollah Jalili; Farnaz Ganjabadi; davod habibi; alireza eivazi

Volume 7, Issue 3 , August 2019, , Pages 319-330

https://doi.org/10.22048/jsat.2018.130432.1298

Abstract
  In order to increase the quality and yield of saffron, an experiment was conducted in the Alborz province, (Eshtehard), in the year 2016-2017 through the interaction of nitroxin biological fertilizer and irrigation management. The experiment was conducted as split plot in randomized complete block design ...  Read More

Agriculture
Response of quantitative and qualitative characteristics of Saffron flower to the last irrigation cut-off time and various fertilizer resources

Anis Rezaei; Hassan Feizi; Rohollah Moradi

Volume 7, Issue 1 , January 2019, , Pages 3-25

https://doi.org/10.22048/jsat.2018.104452.1267

Abstract
  In order to evaluate the effect of last irrigation cut-off time and various fertilizer resources on quantitative and qualitative characteristics of Saffron (Crocus sativus L.) flower, an experiment was conducted in a split-plot arranged as a randomized complete block design with three replications and ...  Read More

Agriculture
Effect of corm priming with salicylic acid and mother corm weight on flowering and qualitative characteristics of saffron stigma

Shirin Ansaryan Mahabadi; Iraj Allah dadi; Majid Ghorbani Javid; Elias Soltani

Volume 7, Issue 1 , January 2019, , Pages 41-53

https://doi.org/10.22048/jsat.2018.96404.1254

Abstract
  Salicylic acid as a plant hormone plays an important role in regulating growth and physiological processes in plant. In order to study the effects of salicylic acid hormone and mother corm weight on saffron flowering properties, an experiment was conducted as factorial based on a randomized complete ...  Read More

Agriculture
Effects of corm origin, corm weight and nutrient foliar application on yield and qualitative traits of saffron (.Crocus sativus L)

hossein sahabi; Mohsen jahan; alireza kochaki; Mehdi Nassiri Mahallati

Volume 6, Issue 3 , September 2018, , Pages 269-277

https://doi.org/10.22048/jsat.2017.93779.1251

Abstract
  In general, corm weight and nutrient management are considered as the most important factors in relation to quantitative and qualitative traits of saffron. In order to investigate the effects of mother corm origin, mother corm weight and nutrient foliar application on yield and qualitative traits of ...  Read More

Other subject about saffron
Study and comparison of saffron quality produced in major centers of production in Khorasan provinces

hamed kaveh; amir salari

Volume 6, Issue 2 , May 2018, , Pages 209-218

https://doi.org/10.22048/jsat.2017.59510.1184

Abstract
  In recent decades, the concept of quality of agricultural products has changed drastically and the quality of raw material is considered as a necessary prerequisite for the quality of the final processed product. With an aim of quality classification of saffron production centers in the provinces of ...  Read More

Processing, food industry and biochemistry
Modelling the Chemical and Microbial Changes of Saffron Flower during Storage Using Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithm

Elham Azarpazhooh; Ahmad Ehtiati; Parvin Sharayei

Volume 4, Issue 4 , January 2017, , Pages 279-289

https://doi.org/10.22048/jsat.2016.38668

Abstract
  Saffron, as the most expensive agricultural and pharmaceutical product of the world, has a special value among plants. Since the Saffron harvesting period is short, its storage for later processing requires understanding the most effective factors affecting the quality of saffron and its deterioration. ...  Read More

Agriculture
Comparison between metabolites ant antioxidant activity of saffron (Crocus sativus L.) from Kashmar and Marand regions

Masoumeh Vakili-ghartavol; Saeedeh Alizadeh Salteh

Volume 4, Issue 3 , November 2016, , Pages 215-224

https://doi.org/10.22048/jsat.2016.38671

Abstract
  Saffron (Crocus sativus L.) is a valuable product that is moderately resistant to drought and is cultivated in environments with very different climatic conditions. The most important chemical compositions of saffron include crocin and crocetin derivatives. Saffron is used as a food colouring and flavouring ...  Read More

Agriculture
Effect of Summer Irrigation and Conservation Tillage on Flower Yield and Qualitative Characteristics of Saffron (Crocus sativus L.)

Hassan Feizi; Abdollah Mollafilabi; Hossein Sahabi; Ahmad Ahmadian

Volume 2, Issue 4 , January 2015, , Pages 255-263

https://doi.org/10.22048/jsat.2015.8619

Abstract
  In order to investigate the effects of summer irrigation and conservation tillage on flower characteristics and corms behavior of Saffron (Crocus sativus L.), a field experiment was conducted during 2009- 2010, at Faculty of Agriculture, University of Torbat-e-Heydarieh, Iran. A factorial trial based ...  Read More