How to Improve Lemon Cypress As A Pot Plant Using GA3 And Urea | ||||
| Assiut Journal of Agricultural Sciences | ||||
| Article 6, Volume 43, Issue 5, October 2012, Page 85-96 PDF (668.16 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ajas.2012.267276 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| N.E. El-Keltawi1; A.E. El-Naggar2; S. S.A. Abdel-Rahman3; M.A. Ibrahim4 | ||||
| 11. Dep of Horticulture, Fac of Agric , Assiut Univ, | ||||
| 2Dep of Horticulture, Fac of Agric , Assiut Univ, | ||||
| 3Floriculture Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt | ||||
| 4Fac of Agric, South Valley Univ, Qina, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Lemon cypress "Cupressus macrocarpa" is a handsome pot plant used widely. The required for the commercial production is unsufficient to meet the demand as a result of slow growth of that plant. Therefore, a trial was done to use urea and GA3 to induce rapid growth. The present study was directed towards the effect of GA3 at certain levels(0, 125, 250 and 500 ppm) as foliar sprays separately or in combination with soil addition of urea at the rates of 2.5 or 5 g/plant beside the control. The experimental design was complete randomized block design in a split plot with three replicates during the 2007 and 2008 seasons. The study included the desired pot plant characteristics and explained on the mineral as percentages of N, P, K, Ca and Mg, as well as total carbohydrate and protein in the leaves. The obtained results indicated that spraying 250 ppm GA3 improved most of the studied vegetative parameters as well as N, P, K, Mg and protein contents. On the contrary, it reduced the contents of Ca and total carbohydrate compared to 125 or 500 ppm GA3.The obtained results recommended that spraying 250 ppm GA3 and soil adding 5g Urea/plant to improve lemon cypress as a pot plant under the condition of this experiment. | ||||
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