Asmaa Hanafy Ahmed Ali Mostafa <br/><br/>
Studies on some ornamental plants /  
      
Asmaa Hanafy Ahmed Ali Mostafa ; Supervised Hamdy Mohamed Ali Elbagoury , Weaam Ramadan Arafa Sakr , Soad Abdallah Moahmed 
 - Cairo :   Asmaa Hanafy Ahmed Ali Mostafa ,   2015 
 - 161 P. ;   25cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Agriculture - Department of Ornamental Horticulture 
<br/><br/> This study was consummated at postharvest laboratory of ornamental plants and landscape gardening research dept., hort. res. Inst., ARC; Giza, Egypt during 2012 and 2013 seasons to improve quality of limonium sinuatum cut flowers through studying the effect of holding  solutions (including distilled water as a control, 0.5ml / l florissant100 + 200mg / l 8- hydroxyquinoline citrate, 2% sucrose + 200 mg / l 8-hydroxyquinoline citrate, 2% sucrose + 200 mg/l 8-hydroxyquinoline citrate + 150mg / l citric acid and 2% sucrose + 200 mg / l 8- hydroxyquinoline citrate + 150mg / l citric acid + 150mg / l 6- benzyladenine + 0.5 ml/l Tween20) and storage temperatures including room temperature (21 ± 1C) or the cold storage at 0 or 5C for one week, as well as their interactions on longevity and quality of limonium sinuatum cv. Velvet wings cut flowering stems till the end of vase  life. Results indicated that it is recommended to hold the cut flowering stems of limonium sinuatum cv. Velvet Wings in a solution containing 2% sucrose + 200mg / l 8-hydroxyquinoline citrate + 150mg / l citric acid + 150mg / l 6- benzyladenine + 0.5ml / l florissant 100 + 0.5 ml / l tween 20 under room  temperature (21 ± 1C) for prolonging their longevity and improving quality of flowers, followed by cut flowers stored at 0C and treated with the same  previous solution, comparing with the other treatments 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Limonium sinuatum Preservative solution Storage temperature