Pavlo Lykhovyd
Institute of Climate Smart Agriculture of NAAS (former Institute of Irrigated Agriculture of NAAS), 01010 Kyiv, UkrainePublications
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Short Communication
A preliminary study on the effects of pre-planting heating o saffron corms germination speed and number of sprouts in greenhouse conditions
Author(s): Pavlo Lykhovyd*, Olesia Yuziuk, Oleksandr Rudik, Olena Ozhovan, Liudmyla Popova, Natalia Rudik and Valerii Dubrovin
Saffron (Crocus sativus L.) is a prospective niche crop for modern climate smart and resource saving agriculture. Notwithstanding the fact of growing importance of saffron in food and pharmaceutical branches of economy, the crop remains insufficiently studied in terms of its rational cultivation technology. Pre-planting treatment of corms is on the list of unresolved and at the same time very important constituents of saffron cultivation. The study on the effects of pre-planting heating at the temperature +25…27°C during 30 days was caried out in the greenhouse conditions in four replications to understand the reaction of saffron corms on such treatment in the initial period of growth. As a result, it was established that heated corms provided significantly higher number of sprouts at germination (2.25 more sprouts per each planted corm), while the time from planting to fir.. Read More»