Beta
145623

Improving the Growth and Productivity of Faba Bean (<i>Vicia faba</i> L.) under Deficit Irrigation Conditions by Spraying of Potassium Selenate and Potassium Silicate

Article

Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

Subjects

-

Tags

Soil physics and water conservation

Abstract

Two field experiments were elaborated for two seasons (2018/2019 and 2019/2020) under drip irrigation system in the open experimental farm (30° 3'19.49"N latitude, 31°19'10.19"E longitude) of Department of Soils and Water, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt, to investigate the impact of three levels of applied irrigation water: I1=100, I2=80 and I3=60% of irrigation water requirements (IR) and foliar application of potassium selenate (K2SeO4: 0.3 and 0.6 mM) and potassium silicate (K2SiO3: 5 and 10 mM) on the growth, yield and quality of faba bean (Vicia faba L., cv Sakha 3) and also the water use efficiency. The results indicated that increasing the applied irrigation water amount from 2219.75 (I3) to 3698.77 m3 ha-1 (I1), gave the highest mean values of plant height, num-ber of branches (NB), dry seeds weight, the weight of 100 dry seeds and dry seed yield as well as P and K content in seeds. In the contrary, the highest mean values of water use effi-ciency (WUE), protein and nitrogen (N) content in seeds occurred with 60% of IR for both seasons. Moreover, foliar spraying with potassium silicate at 10 mM led to a highly significant increase of all the studied parameters followed by foliar spraying with potassium selenate at 0.6 mM compared to the untreated plant's treatment. Consequently, it is recommended to grow faba bean plants (Sakha 3) with applying 80% of IR (2958.02 m3 ha-1) and foliar spray-ing with 10 mM potassium silicate and saving 20% of the amount of irrigation water for other uses in agriculture.

DOI

10.21608/ejss.2021.54169.1417

Keywords

Deficit Irrigation, Faba bean, foliar spray, potassium selenite, potassium silicate

Authors

First Name

Mostafa

Last Name

Fayed

MiddleName

H.

Affiliation

Water and Irrigation Systems Engineering Department, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, Al-Azhar University, Nasr City, Cairo,Egypt.

Email

mostafa.fayed@azhar.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

0000-0002-6123-7453

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Sheta

MiddleName

Hamed

Affiliation

Soils and Water Dept. Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo, Al-Azhar University

Email

mohamedsheta.205@azhar.edu.eg

City

Egypt

Orcid

0000-0002-2810-0148

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Mancy

MiddleName

G.

Affiliation

Soils and Water Dept., Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt.

Email

ahmedgomaa2030@azhar.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

61

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

22766

Issue Date

2021-03-01

Receive Date

2020-12-19

Publish Date

2021-03-01

Page Start

95

Page End

111

Print ISSN

0302-6701

Online ISSN

2357-0369

Link

https://ejss.journals.ekb.eg/article_145623.html

Detail API

https://ejss.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=145623

Order

7

Type

Original Article

Type Code

19

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Soil Science

Publication Link

https://ejss.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Improving the Growth and Productivity of Faba Bean (<i>Vicia faba</i> L.) under Deficit Irrigation Conditions by Spraying of Potassium Selenate and Potassium Silicate

Details

Type

Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023