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- Title
Effect of bio fertilizers, organic and mineral nitrogen fertilizer on growth and yield of tomato plants grown under sandy soil conditions.
- Authors
Mesallam, M. G.; Shafshak, Nadia S.; Abo-Sedera, F. A.; Elmagd, M. M. Abou
- Abstract
Two field experiments were carried out during the two consecutive summer seasons of 2013 and 2014 at private Farm, at Wadi-Elmolak, Sharkia Governorate, to study the effect of bio, organic (cattle, chicken and compost) and mineral nitrogen fertilizersas well as their interactions on vegetative growth, plant chemical composition, yield and its components and fruit quality of tomato plants"hybrid TY 70/70 F1"grown under sandy soil conditions. Obtained results showed that fertilizing tomato plants with bio-fertizers (microbein + nitrobein) at rate of 4 kg/fed for each of them as soil addition after 2 and 6 weeks from transplanting caused a significant increase in vegetative growth, yield and its components and mineral contents as compared to the control (without biofertilizers).Using mineral nitrogen fertilizer at rate of (120 kg N/fed.) reflected the highest values of all determined morphological parameters expressed as plant height, number of both leaves and branches per plant, dry weight of leaves, branches and whole plant followed by using chicken manure at rate of (120 kg N/fed.) without significant differences among them and cattle manure and compost manure in descending order. Organic manure fertilizers caused significant difference in growth, yield and its components and mineral contents. Meanwhile, application of chicken manure achieved the highest values of all aforementioned parameters followed by application of cattle manure and compost, in a descending order. In general, fertilization of tomato plants with biofertilizers (microbein + nitrobein) with mineral nitrogen or chicken manure at rate of (120 kg N/fed.)gave the highest values of vegetative growth, plant chemical composition, yield and its components and fruit quality compared to other interaction treatments.
- Subjects
BIOFERTILIZERS; NITROGEN-fixing plants; ORGANIC fertilizers; GROWTH; FUNGAL growth
- Publication
Annals of Agricultural Science Moshtohor, 2017, Vol 55, Issue 2, p343
- ISSN
1110-0419
- Publication type
Article