A new species of Onobrychis sect. Onobrychis (Fabaceae) from Iran

Abstract

Onobrychis farimanensis is described as a new species and an identification key, illustrations and distribution map provided. The new species is restricted to the north Zharf Mountains between Fariman and Torbat-e Heydarieh, in the Khorasan Razavi Province of Iran. It is a perennial herb, becoming woody at the base and has long wing petals, standard as long as the keel, and pods loosely covered by appressed hairs. The new species differs from morphologically similar taxa, O. alamutensis and O. major, in several morphological characters such as plant height, stem indumentum, leaflet length and indumentum, bract length, calyx length, corolla colour, and pod size and shape.

Morpho-Ecological Study of Wild Onobrychis altissima Grossh. and Onobrychis cyri Grossh. (Onobrychis MILL.) in Azerbaijan

“…Many studies were done on the genus Onobrychis in neighboring countries by morphological, ecological, molecular and karyological traits (Navasardyan, 2013;Avcı et al, 2013;Ranjbar et al, 2018;Zarrabian et al, 2022). However, our literature is not rich in studies of the genus Onobrychis, including its Caucasian species.…”

Freezing of pomegranate seeds coated with chitosan and evaluating its quality during freezing storage

“…1 , Jokar, A. 2 , Abdolahi, F. 3 1 Maintaining the nutritional quality and preserving pomegranate seeds is a major challenge due to the fast degradation of the texture, color and overall quality of pomegranate seeds. In order to investigate the freezing of coated pomegranate seeds with chitosan and determine its quality during freezing storage, an experiment was conducted, in a factorial arrangement in a completely randomized design with three replications.…”