{"id":9801,"date":"2025-08-24T19:25:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T19:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/?p=9801"},"modified":"2025-08-24T19:25:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T19:25:38","slug":"effect-ofmother-corm-weight-on-growth-saffron-productivity-and-stigma-content-of-the-active-substances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/?p=9801","title":{"rendered":"Effect ofmother corm weight on Growth, saffron productivity, and stigma content of the active substances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><strong>Lorin Ahmad<sup>*(1)<\/sup><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">(1). Tartus Research Center, GCSAR, Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">(*Corresponding author: Dr.Lorin Ahmad. E-Mail: <a href=\"mailto:Lorin.ali55@ymail.com\">Lorin.ali55@ymail.com<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Received:5\/01\/2024<strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Accepted:1\/04\/2024<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; font-size: 17px;\"><strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; font-size: 17px;\">This research was conducted during the seasons 2022 and 2023 at the Agricultural Scientific Research Center in Amrit- Tartous on saffron (<em>Crocus sativus <\/em>L.). The research included studying the effect of three treatments of corms weight (2-4, 4-6, 6-8 g) on vegetative growth, the number of flowers and daughter corms, and on the content of the stigmas of active substances. The \u00a0field experiment was carried out according to a randomized complete block design with four replications. \u00a0The results showed a significant superiority of the weight of 6-8 g over the two weights 4-6 g and 2-4 g, that recorded the highest value for the length of leaves (40.51 cm), the number of leaves (18.44 leaf per plant<sup>-1<\/sup>), the leaf area of plant (172.58 cm<sup>2<\/sup>) and the highest number and weight of the daughter corms (3.13 corms per plant<sup>-1<\/sup>, 17.79 g per plant<sup>-1<\/sup> respectively) in the second agricultural season. Corm weight of 6-8 g, was significantly superior over the corm weight of 4-6 g in number of flowers and the dry weight of stigmas) 16.55 flower.m<sup>-2<\/sup>, 0.062 g.m<sup>-2<\/sup> respectively), and in the best ratios of the active substances crocin, picrocrocin and safranal (E<sup>1%<\/sup> 440 nm =197.54 , E<sup>1%<\/sup> 257 nm= 60.09, E<sup>1%<\/sup> 330 nm = 38.34 respectively).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><strong>Keywords<\/strong>: saffron, corm weight, stigma, active substances, productivity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Full paper in Arabic: <a href=\"http:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/wp-content\/uploads\/v12n4p4.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lorin Ahmad*(1) (1). Tartus Research Center, GCSAR, Syria. (*Corresponding author: Dr.Lorin Ahmad. E-Mail: Lorin.ali55@ymail.com). Received:5\/01\/2024\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Accepted:1\/04\/2024 Abstract:\u00a0 This research was conducted during the seasons 2022 and 2023 at the Agricultural Scientific Research Center in Amrit- Tartous on saffron (Crocus sativus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/?p=9801\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sjar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9804,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9801\/revisions\/9804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}