List price   € 79   Buy this book   This title is available in ActaHort USB-drive or e-Acta format - not available in print Convener   M.Z. Tsimidou  Editors   M.Z. Tsimidou, M. Polissiou, J.A. Fernandez  Publication date   31 January 2010  ISBN   978-90-66057-32-6  ISSN   0567-7572 (print)   2406-6168 (electronic)  Number of articles   54  Volumes   1  Place   Krokos, Kozani, Greece  Online articles: PRESERVING BIODIVERSITY IN SAFFRON: THE CROCUSBANK PROJECT AND THE WORLD SAFFRON AND CROCUS COLLECTION (M. De-Los-Mozos-Pascual, J.-A. Fernández, M. Roldán) PECULIAR EVOLUTION OF SAFFRON (CROCUS SATIVUS L.): PROSPERITY AND DECLINE (Y.M. Agayev, E. Zarifi) A PRELIMINARY CHARACTERIZATION OF SAFFRON GERMPLASM FROM THE CROCUSBANK COLLECTION (M. De-Los-Mozos-Pascual, O. Santana-Méridas, M.F. Rodríguez-Conde, R. Sánchez-Vioque, T. Pastor-Férriz, J.-A. Fernández, M. Santaella, R.A. Sánchez, T. Verwulgen, M. Palacios, B. Renau-Morata, E. Sanchís, A. García-Luis, J.L. Guardiola, R.V. Molina) CROCUS SATIVUS L. – MOLECULAR EVIDENCE ON ITS CLONAL ORIGIN (S. Fluch, K. Hohl, M. Stierschneider, D. Kopecky, B. Kaar) A STUDY OF KARYOTYPES IN THE CROCUS SATIVUS L. AGGREGATE AND ORIGIN OF CULTIVATED SAFFRON (Y.M. Agayev, E. Zarifi, J.-A. Fernández) DIFFERENCES IN THE MOLECULAR MECHANISM CONTROLLING CROCUS FLOWERING SEASON BETWEEN SPRING AND AUTUMN SPECIES (A. Kalivas, A. Argiriou, K. Pasentsis, A.S. Tsaftaris, O. Ahrazem) BOTANY OF CROCUS ANCYRENSIS THROUGH DOMESTICATION (I. Sevinç Kravkaz, H. Vurdu) EFFECT OF RADIATION AND CHEMICAL MUTAGEN ON VARIABILITY IN SAFFRON (CROCUS SATIVUS L.) (F.A. Nehvi, M.A. Khan, A.A. Lone, M.I. Maqhdoomi, S.A. Wani, V. Yousuf, S. Yasmin) STUDIES IN RELATION TO MOLECULAR VARIABILITY IN SAFFRON (S. Imran, F.A. Nehvi, S.A. Wani, G. Zaffar, M.A. Khan) GENETIC DIVERGENCE IN SAFFRON (CROCUS SATIVUS L.) (M.I. Maqhdoomi, F.A. Nehvi, S.A. Wani) STUDY OF CHANGES IN GROWTH AND ANTIOXIDANT ENZYMES ACTIVITY BY ABSCISIC ACID AND DROUGHT IN CROCUS SATIVUS L. (M. Maleki, M. Gholami) GREENHOUSE SAFFRON CULTURE – TEMPERATURE EFFECTS ON FLOWER EMERGENCE AND VEGETATIVE GROWTH OF THE PLANTS (R.V. Molina, B. Renau-Morata, S.G. Nebauer, A. García-Luis, J.L. Guardiola) PUBLIC DISCLOSURE, INTERPRETATION AND DISPLAYING THE WORLD SAFFRON AND CROCUS COLLECTION THROUGH THE CROCUSBANK WEBSITE (O. Santana-Méridas, M. De-Los-Mozos-Pascual, J.-A. Fernández) A METHOD TO IMPROVE THE INDUCTION OF CALLUS FROM SAFFRON (CROCUS SATIVUS LINNEO) CORMS (I. Suárez-Ambriz, M. González-Ronquillo, A. Domínguez-López, A. Trejo-González, L. Riverón-Negrete) SURVEY OF THE EFFECT OF IRRIGATION PERIODS ON PDS AND BCH GENES EXPRESSION WITH RT-PCR IN SAFFRON (R. Ghahremanzadeh, N. Moshtaghi, H. Marashi) THE FAMILY OF MADS-BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS CONTROLLING FLOWER FORMATION IN CROCUS SATIVUS L. (A.S. Tsaftaris, K. Pasentsis, A. Kalivas, A. Argiriou, A.N. Polidoros) EFFICIENT SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS AND PLANTLET REGENERATION FROM PROTOPLAST CULTURE OF CROCUS SATIVUS L. (R. Karamian, M. Ranjbar) STUDY ON CHANGES IN PROTEIN PATTERNS AND PHENOLIC CONTENTS DURING SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS IN CROCUS SATIVUS L. (R. Karamian, H. Ebrahimzadeh) ANALYSIS OF AGRONOMIC EFFECTIVE FACTORS ON YIELD OF SAFFRON-BASED AGRO-ECOSYSTEMS IN SOUTHERN KHORASSAN (M. Jami-alahmadi, M.A. Behdani, A. Akbarpoor) EFFECT OF PLANTING METHODS AND CORM DENSITY IN SAFFRON (CROCUS SATIVUS L.) YIELD (M.R. Behnia, M. Mokhtari) A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF A NEW METHOD OF SAFFRON CULTIVATION WITH A TRADITIONAL METHOD FOR IMPROVING SAFFRON PRODUCTIVITY (A. Mollafilabi) INVESTIGATION OF CORRELATIONS BETWEEN SAFFRON FLOWERING PATTERN AND CLIMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS UNDER DIFFERENT LEVELS OF IRRIGATION AND PLANTING DEPTH (J. Vafabakhsh, A. Mokhtarian, H. Rahimi, J. Ahmadian) SAFFRON STIGMAS PRODUCTION AS AFFECTED BY SOIL TEXTURE (F. Gresta, G.M. Lombardo, G. Avola) EVALUATION OF SAFFRON PLURIANNUAL GROWING CYCLE IN CENTRAL SICILY (F. Branca, S. Argento) USE OF ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI AND BENEFICIAL SOIL BACTERIA TO IMPROVE YIELD AND QUALITY OF SAFFRON (CROCUS SATIVUS L.) (S. Aimo, F. Gosetti, G. D'Agostino, E. Gamalero, V. Gianotti, M. Bottaro, M.C. Gennaro, G. Berta) COMPARATIVE STUDY ON EFFECT OF NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT ON GROWTH AND YIELD OF SAFFRON UNDER TEMPERATE CONDITIONS OF KASHMIR (F.A. Nehvi, A.A. Lone, M.A. Khan, M.I. Maqhdoomi) IMPACT OF MICROBIAL INOCULATION ON GROWTH AND YIELD OF SAFFRON IN KASHMIR (F.A. Nehvi, M.A. Khan, A.A. Lone, M.I. Maqhdoomi) THE STUDY ON PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS IN IRANIAN CROCUS SATIVUS L. CORMS BY GC-MS ANALYSIS (N. Esmaeili, H. Ebrahimzadeh, V. Niknam, M. Mirmasoumi, K. Abdi, S. Safarian) THE EVALUATION OF PLANT EFFECTIVE INDICES ON GROWTH AND PRODUCTION OF SAFFRON AGROECOSYSTEM IN SOUTHERN KHORASAN, IRAN (M.A. Behdani, M. Jami-alahmadi, A. Akbarpoor) EFFECT OF CORMS STORAGE CONDITIONS ON QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE TRAITS OF SAFFRON: AN AGRO-CHEMICAL STUDY (L. Siracusa, E.M. Napoli, G. Ruberto, F. Gresta, G.M. Lombardo) THE EFFECT OF PLANTING DATE, CORM WEIGHT AND GIBBERELLIN CONCENTRATION ON QUANTITY AND QUALITY CHARACTERISTICS OF SAFFRON (M.R. Tookalloo, M.H. Rashed Mohassel, A. Mollafilabi) CORM SIZE AND INCUBATION EFFECTS ON TIME TO FLOWERING AND THREADS YIELD AND QUALITY IN SAFFRON PRODUCTION IN ARGENTINA (L.M. Poggi, A.J. Portela, M.A. Pontin, R.V. Molina) SAFFRON YIELD POTENTIAL ZONING AS THE RESULT OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND AGRONOMIC EFFECTIVE FACTORS AND PLANT EFFECTIVE INDICES USING GIS IN SOUTHERN KHORASSAN (A. Akbarpoor, M.A. Behdani, M. Jami-alahmadi) THE DESIGN OF A MECHANICAL SYSTEM FOR THE HARVEST OF SAFFRON PLANTS IN GREECE (C.I. Dimitriadis, J.L. Brighton) MANUAL PROCEDURE TO ASSESS PRO-/ANTIOXIDANT IMBALANCE IN HUMAN PLASMA BASED ON THE CROCIN BLEACHING ASSAY (CBA) (S.A. Ordoudi, N. Nenadis, M.Z. Tsimidou, M. Sarigianni, K. Paletas) ANTIOXIDANT SAFFRON CONSTITUENTS BIND DNA AND TRNA (C.D. Kanakis, P.A. Tarantilis, M.G. Polissiou, H.A. Tajmir-Riahi) DETECTION OF ERYTHROSINE IN SAFFRON (S.A. Ordoudi, K. Tsioga, M.Z. Tsimidou) EFFECTS OF OZONE TREATMENT ON MICROFLORA OF DRIED SAFFRON AND ITS LIVING LARVAE (M. Akbari, M.H. Haddad Khadaparast, A. Hemati Kakhki) SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION OF HIGH QUALITY SAFFRON (CROCUS SATIVUS L.) IN SOME MOROCCAN AREAS (M. Lage, F. Gaboun, K. Bakhy, H. Dakak, A. Zouahri, C.L. Cantrell) EFFECT OF SAFFRON PETAL WATER EXTRACT TO RYE (SECALE CEREALE L.) SEEDLING GROWTH (M. Ahmadi, R. Abbasi Alikamar, M. Tatari, A. Hosseini) EFFECT OF SAFFRON PETAL WATER EXTRACT ON WHEAT GERMINATION, SEEDLING GROWTH AND ESTABLISHMENT (M. Tatari, M. Ahmadi, R. Abbasi Alikamar, A. Hosseini) STABILITY OF ANTHOCYANIN EXTRACTED FROM SAFFRON (CROCUS SATIVUS L.) PETALS IN A MODEL BEVERAGE (A. Hemati Kakhki) RE-EVALUATION OF SAFFRON FLORAL WASTES: ANALYSIS OF SAFFRON FLOWERS DEFATTED HYDRO-ALCOHOLIC EXTRACTS (S. Argento, F. Branca, L. Siracusa, T. Strano, E.M. Napoli, G. Ruberto) SENSORY ANALYSIS OF PICROCROCIN FROM SAFFRON SPICE: TASTE DETECTION THRESHOLD (A.M. Sánchez, M. Carmona, J.E. Pardo, G.L. Alonso) SAFFRON AS ENVIRONMENTAL BIOMARKER OF DIFFUSE CONTAMINATION (L. Maggi, M. Carmona, A. Zalacain, G.L. Alonso, M. Martínez Tomé, M.A. Murcia, L. García Diz) PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION INTO THE GEOGRAPHICAL ORIGIN DIFFERENTIATION OF SAFFRON (CROCUS SATIVUS L.) BY MULTI-ELEMENT (HCN) STABLE ISOTOPE ANALYSIS (L. Maggi, M. Carmona, G.L. Alonso, S. Kelly, N. Marigheto) EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTS OF SAFFRON (CROCUS SATIVUS L.) CORM EXTRACT ON GROWING INDICES OF CUCURBITA PEPO VAR. STYRICA (F. Izadpanah, T. Feizi, S. Ghomi, S. Kalantari, M.E. Hassani) FORTHCOMING CHALLENGES FOR IMPROVING SAFFRON FARMING SYSTEMS IN KASHMIR (F.A. Nehvi) STUDY OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF TEN YEARS RESEARCH ON SAFFRON (CROCUS SATIVUS L.) (M. Hosseini, A. Hemati Kakhki, A.-R. Karbasi) QUALITY AND PROSPECTIVE OF SICILIAN SAFFRON (A. Nicolosi, S. Cosentino, M. Strazzulla) REPLACEMENT OF SAFFRON (CROCUS SATIVUS L.) WITH POPPY (PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM L.) AND ITS SOCIO-ECONOMIC RESULTS IN AFGHANISTAN (A. Mollafilabi, M.H. Aslami, H. Shoorideh) CURRENT STATUS OF THE GERMPLASM SPANISH COLLECTION OF SAFFRON AND WILD RELATIVES (M. De-Los-Mozos-Pascual, O. Santana-Méridas, M.F. Rodríguez-Conde, R. Sánchez-Vioque, T. Pastor-Férriz, J.L. Guardiola, A. García-Luis, R.V. Molina, E. Sanchís-Duato, J. Medina-Alcázar, J.-A. Fernández) ETYMOLOGY, HISTORY AND APPLICATION OF SAFFRON (CROCUS SATIVUS L.) IN ANCIENT IRAN (G. Sharifi) FACTORS AFFECTING ENHANCEMENT OF SAFFRON (CROCUS SATIVUS L.) EXPORTS (A. Mollafilabi, N. Imankhan)