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Improving Yield and Quality of Sugar Beet Using Boron at Different Levels of Nitrogen Fertilizer

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Crops and quality

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Low quality of sugar beet roots is one of the problems which face expanding in agriculture of sugar beet in Middle Egypt; especially El-Minia Governorate .This trial was conducted at Mallawi Agric.Res. Station ,El-Minia, Egypt, during 2008/2009 and 2009/2010 seasons to determine the optimal level of boron and nitrogen fertilizer to obtain the highest yield and quality of sugar beet . Split plot design with four replications was used. Nitrogen fertilizer levels i.e. 80, 100 and 120 kg/fed were arranged in the main plots. Boron, as boric acid, was foliar sprayed at 0.00, 0.05 and 0.10 % and allocated in the sub plots. Foliar applications of boron were applied at 80 days after planting. The obtained results revealed that boron and nitrogen fertilizer levels had a significant effect on vegetative traits, i.e. root length and diameter (cm), quality characteristics (pol%, Na, K, a- N contents, sugar recovery % and quality index) and productivity parameters of sugar beet (root and sugar yields ton/fed) in the two growing seasons and the combined. Applying fertilization of sugar beet by 100 kg N /fed with foliar application of boron with 0.10 %( as boric acid) is recommended under Middle Egypt conditions (El-Minia Governorate conditions) because it gave the hightest value of recoverable sugar yield (4.39 ton/ fed) of sugar beet compared with the other.

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10.21608/asejaiqjsae.2011.2136

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Sugar beet, Boron, sugar recovery%, pol% and quality index

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Ferweez

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H.

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Sugar Crops Res. Inst., Agric. Res. Centre, Giza, Egypt.

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M.F.M.

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Ibrahim

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Sugar Crops Res. Inst., Agric. Res. Centre, Giza, Egypt.

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A.M.

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Allan

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Sugar Crops Res. Inst., Agric. Res. Centre, Giza, Egypt.

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32

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JANUARY- MARCH

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407

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2011-03-01

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2011-03-14

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2011-03-30

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51

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57

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1110-0176

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2536-9784

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53

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Alexandria Science Exchange Journal

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22 Jan 2023