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Integrated Management of K -Additives to Improve the Productivity of Zucchini Plants Grown on a Poor Fertile Sandy Soil

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Soil fertility and plant nutrition

Abstract

Three eco-friendly approaches were investigated for their effects on improving K-uptake by zucchini plants; hence, increasing shoot growth and fruit productivity. These approaches were: (1) amending soil with biochar (0 and 5g kg-1), (2) spraying plants with Amphora extract (0 and 1g L-1) and (3) substituting inorganic-K fertilizers partially with organic ones. In this concern, five levels of compost (0, 1.5, 3, 4.5 and 6 g kg-1) were applied to a poor fertile sandy soil (98.5% sand) in complementation with inorganic NPK-fertilizers to bring their concentrations, even in the control treatment, to the recommended levels. This investigation was conducted under the greenhouse conditions during the summer season of 2020. Results obtained herein reveal that application of either of biochar or Amphora extract exhibited positive effects on soil available-K (20 and 6.5% respectively), K-concentrations in fruits and total K-uptake by the aboveground plant parts. Furthermore, these two amendments raised considerably the dry weights of both zucchini shoots and fruits. On the other hand, compost could partially substitute inorganic-K fertilizers when it was applied at a rate not exceeding 3g kg-1, recording significant improvements in all the investigated parameters. Nevertheless application of high compost doses reduced significantly fruit yield. Generally, there existed a highly significant linear relation between the total K-uptake by plants and fruit dry weights. Accordingly, treatments that improved considerably K-uptake by plants (the combination between foliar application of amphora extract + 5 g kg-1 biochar + 0-3 g kg-1 compost) recorded the highest improvements in productivity of zucchini plants.

DOI

10.21608/ejss.2021.99643.1472

Keywords

potassium, Zucchini, Amphora extract, Biochar, compost

Authors

First Name

Mona

Last Name

Tolba

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Plant Nutrition Department, National Research Centre, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

Email

mona.tolba1994@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

0000-0001-6499-2609

First Name

Ihab

Last Name

Farid

MiddleName

M

Affiliation

Benha University, Faculty of Agriculture, Soils and Water Department

Email

ihabfarid2005@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Hanan

Last Name

Siam

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Plant Nutrition Department, National Research Centre, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

Email

drhanansiam@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Abbas

MiddleName

H.H.

Affiliation

Benha University, Faculty of Agriculture, Soils and Water department

Email

mohamed.abbas@fagr.bu.edu.eg

City

Obour

Orcid

0000-0002-1905-1241

First Name

Ibrahim

Last Name

Mohamed

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Soils and Water, Faculty of Agric., Benha University

Email

ibrahim.ali@fagr.bu.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

0000-0001-8385-8771

First Name

Safaa

Last Name

Mahmoud

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Plant Nutrition Department, National Research Centre, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

Email

safaaayman@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Abo El-Kair

Last Name

El-Sayed

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Algal Biotechnology Unit, Fertilization Technology Department, National Research Centre, Dokki-Cairo, Egypt

Email

bokhairnrc@gmail.com

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-

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-

Volume

61

Article Issue

3

Related Issue

28872

Issue Date

2021-11-01

Receive Date

2021-10-05

Publish Date

2021-11-01

Page Start

355

Page End

365

Print ISSN

0302-6701

Online ISSN

2357-0369

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https://ejss.journals.ekb.eg/article_200925.html

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https://ejss.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=200925

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Type Code

19

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Soil Science

Publication Link

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

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Integrated Management of K -Additives to Improve the Productivity of Zucchini Plants Grown on a Poor Fertile Sandy Soil

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Created At

22 Jan 2023