EFFECT OF SOME AGRICULTURAL TREATMENTS ON JEW'S MALLOW SEED PRODUCTION | ||||
| Journal of Plant Production | ||||
| Article 7, Volume 29, Issue 8, August 2004, Page 4685-4694 PDF (2.93 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jpp.2004.238786 | ||||
 View on SCiNiTO | ||||
| Authors | ||||
| F. M.M. EL-Assiouty,; A. S.S. Amer | ||||
| Vegetable Res. Dept., Hort. Res. Inst., Agric. Res. Center. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Two field trials were conducted at Kaha Farm of Horticultural Research, Kaluebia Governorate during the two successive summer seasons of 2001 and 2002 to study the effect of cutting frequency; i.e. without cutting, one cut and two cuts and active dry yeast i.e. 0, 0.1, 0.2 and 0.3%, as well as their interaction on growth parameters, seed yield and its components, in addition to seed quality of Jew's mallow cv. 8alady. Obtained results could be summarized as follows: 1- Cutting frequency caused significant increase in number of branches per plant and significant reduction in plant height. The cutting once was the most effective treatment in increasing seed yield components traits expressed as number and weight of pods, number of seed per pod, seed yield per plant and seed yield per fed.; as well as seed index (weight of 1000 seed). On the other hand, these treatments had no significant effect on germination percentage and rate. 2- Spraying Jew's mallow plants with the solution of yeast enhanced number of leaves, leaf area, fresh or dry weight per plant as well as plant height, number of branches, seed yield and its components and seed index (weight of 1000 seed) while, the germination percentage and germination rate were not affected by the these treatments. The most favorable treatment in this respect was yeast at 0.3%. 3- The interaction between cutting frequency and foliar spray with yeast exhibited significant effect on all studied characters, except seed quality expressed as seed index, germination percentage and rate, where this trait was insignificantly affected by this interaction in both seasons. Generally, it may be concluded that the interaction between cutting plants once with spraying 0.3% yeast was found to be the best treatment for the production of highest dry seed yield, such treatment could be recommended. | ||||
|
Statistics Article View: 40 PDF Download: 134 |
||||
