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The Response of White Eggplant Plants to Foliar Application with Boron and Potassium Silicate

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Horticulture (Vegetable, Pomology and Ornamentals)

Abstract

A field experiment implemented in the spring season of 2014 in the fields of horticulture and landscape gardening department/ university – AL-jadyria, to study the impact of boron and potassium silicate in the growth and productivity and floral biology of white eggplant cultivar (beeth alajl). The plants sprayed with boron in the three concentrations of (as H3BO3) (0, 0.75, 1 and 1.5 g L-1), and potassium silicate K2SiO3 (25%SiO2 and 10% K2O) (0.75, 1 and1.5 g L-1). The experiments designed with randomize completed blocks design with three replications and seven treatments, mean results compared with 0.05 probabilities. Plants sprayed three times two week intervals between them. The treatment T7 gave the highest plant (65.7cm), leaves number (43.25), leaf area ,chlorophyll concentrate (353.1 mg 100g fresh weight), % pollen grain viability (88.05%), plant yield (4.20 kg plant-1), fruits number (31.5 fruit plant-1), P% (0.532%) , and K% (3.403%) while T2 treatment showed the significant effect of  boron in height of pistil and anther at (14.18 and 12.84) respectively and % pollen grain germination (79.1%) and a significant effect in T3(1g .L-1 of  H3BO3) for fruit weight mean per plant. It was concluded from these results that spraying plants with potassium silicate enhanced most yield and significantly increased most studying characters.

DOI

10.21608/ajas.2016.3874

Keywords

Eggplant Production, foliar application, Micro elements

Volume

48

Article Issue

1-1

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239

Issue Date

2017-02-01

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2016-09-23

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2017-02-01

Page Start

394

Page End

401

Print ISSN

1110-0486

Online ISSN

2356-9840

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62

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Publication Title

Assiut Journal of Agricultural Sciences

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https://ajas.journals.ekb.eg/

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The Response of White Eggplant Plants to Foliar Application with Boron and Potassium Silicate

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22 Jan 2023