Saffron has long history in Iranian agriculture and has played a significant role in

socio-economic and cultural structure of the small scale farming communities of arid areas of the country, mainly in the southern Khorasan. This cash crop...

Abstract: The objective of this study was to develop a thermal model that can be used for prediction of saffron flowering time. For this purpose, existing data on saffron flower emergence time were collected in a wide range of temperature regimes...

Saffron is the most expensive agricultural commodity in the world and hence the most adulterated food item internationally. Global consumption of saffron has been estimated at 300 tones with one billion dollars trade which is almost 4% of the total...

This book is part of a series, which is a companion to the journal ANIMAL

2 to 6 September 2018, Clermont‐Ferrand, France

470 Session 4: Nutrition to improve milk and meat quality

Effects of saffron petals ethanolic extract and vitamin E...

In order to understand the effects of different organic and chemical fertilizer on stigma yield and leaf dry matter yield, in vitro dry matter digestibility, organic matter digestibility and Digestible-value of Crocus ...

of saffron (Crocus sativus L.) on 9-11 g maternal corms weights, a pot experiment was conducted in Qom conditions during years of 2012- 2013. For this purpose a factorial experiment based on completely randomized design with three replications and 9...

it is undetected. However the majority of incidents has no direct risk to public health and the intentions are mainly economical. Spices as more vulnerable to fraud and saffron due to its high price is the most tempting to fraudulence food products in the world...