EFFECT OF SOME MACRO AND MICRONUTRIENTS ON GROWTH, YIELD AND CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS OF CHAMOMILE PLANTS (Matricaria chamomilla L.) GROWN UNDER NEWLY RECLAIMED SOIL CONDITIONS. | ||
| Fayoum Journal of Agricultural Research and Development | ||
| Article 10, Volume 23, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 127-138 PDF (357.72 K) | ||
| Document Type: Research articles. | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/fjard.2009.197020 | ||
| Author | ||
| Faisal M. A. Matter | ||
| Horticulture Dept., Faculty of Agriculture, Fayoum University. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The present study was carried out in field during the growing seasons 2004/2005 and 2005/2006 to investigate the effect of macronutrients at the rates of N (75 and 100 kg /fed). P2O5 (32 and 50 kg./fed.) and K2O (24 and 36 kg./fed.) and the mixture of micronutrients (Fe, Mn and Zn at the rate of 2%) on growth, yield and chemical constituents of chamomile plants. The data obtained from the study show that the treated plants with the high rates of macronutrients (NPK) either alone or in combination with each others increased all the studied characters such as growth parameters (plant height, number of branches, fresh and dry weights of plant), yield (number of inflorescences/plant, fresh and dry weights of inflorescences/plant and dry yield /fed.) and some chemical constituents such as (N, P, K, Fe, Mn, Zn, pigments and total carbohydrates). Also yield of oil (oil percentage, oil yield/ plant and fedann) Generally, the maximum increase of the previous characters was obtained by the treatment which contain the high rate of NPK fertilizers (100, 50 and 36 kg/fed., respectively) either alone or in combination with spraying chamomile plants with micronutrients (Fe, Zn and Mn) at the concentration of 2%. Therefore, under newly reclaimed soil conditions prefer fertilization chamomile plants with (100, 50 and 36 kg/fed. from NPK fertilizers, respectively in combination with micronutrients (Fe, Zn and Mn) at the concentration 2% to obtain the good yield from the plants. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Chamomile plants; macro and micronutrients; growth; yield; chemical constituents | ||
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