Biologia plantarum 51:563-566, 2007 | DOI: 10.1007/s10535-007-0123-8

Responses of Nigella sativa to foliar application of gibberellic acid and kinetin

S. H. Shah1,*, I. Ahmad1, Samiullah1
1 Plant Physiology Section, Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India

Foliar sprays of water or 1, 10 and 100 µM aqueous solutions of gibberellic acid (GA3) or kinetin (KIN) were applied to 40-d-old plants of Nigella sativa (L.) to study their effects on net photosynthetic rate, nitrogen metabolism, and the seed yield. 10 µM solutions of both the hormones, especially GA3, appreciably increased the activities of nitrate reductase and carbonic anhydrase, chlorophyll and total protein contents and net photosynthetic rate in the leaves, along with capsule number and seed yield plant-1, at harvest.

Keywords: black cumin; capsule number; carbonic anhydrase; leaf protein; net photosynthetic rate; nitrate reductase; seed yield
Subjects: black cumin; carbonic anhydrase; chlorophyll a,b; cytokinins; gas exchange; gibberellic acid, gibberellin; Nigella sativa; nitrate reductase; protein, leaf; proteins; seed production

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