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Effect of Organic Liquid Vermicompost as a Substitute for Chemical Fertilizer on Morphological and Biochemical Characteristics in Lettuce.

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Horticulture (Vegetable, Pomology and Ornamentals)

Abstract

The use of organic vermicompost fertilizers is considered one of the promising fertilizer. Therefore, the experiment aimed to study the effect of using liquid vermicompost fertilizer as an alternative to chemical fertilizers in the production of lettuce, Crisp head variety. In this study, a field experiment was conducted during the two winter seasons of 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 at the Agricultural Research Station in the Abies region, affiliated to the Faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria University Egypt. This experiment aimed to evaluate the response of lettuce plants to the application of liquid vermicompost (LVC) fertilizer through four different concentrations (2.5%, 5%, 10%, and 20%), and the chemical fertilization treatment (100% NPK) in the recommended rate as a control treatment for lettuce production, on some vegetative growth characters; Fresh weight plant-1 (kg), head net weight plant-1 (kg), total yield fed-1 (ton), and unmarketable yield fed-1 (ton), in addition to some biochemical characteristics; vitamin C, dry matter, total soluble solids, and carbohydrates as well as estimate the element content and quality elements, such as nitrogen (N+), potassium (K+), phosphorus (P+), calcium (Ca2+), magnesium (Mg2+), and iron (Fe2+). The results showed a gradual significant increasing in the values of most of the studied traits by increasing the concentrations of vermicompost fertilizer from 2.5 % to 20%. The application of vermicompost treatment with a concentration of 20% LVC gave the highest significant values for most of the studied traits without a clear significant difference compared to the chemical fertilizer 100% NPK.

DOI

10.21608/ajas.2021.98808.1047

Keywords

Liquid vermicompost, lettuce, Recycling of organic waste, Red wiggler worms

Authors

First Name

Amira

Last Name

Helaly

MiddleName

Abd El-Hamid

Affiliation

vegetable department, Faculty of agriculture, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.

Email

amira.helaly@alexu.edu.eg

City

Alexandria

Orcid

0000-0003-1693-4775

First Name

Rehab

Last Name

El-Dakak

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Botany and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Egypt.

Email

rhabeldakak@yahoo.com

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Orcid

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Volume

52

Article Issue

3

Related Issue

27461

Issue Date

2021-09-01

Receive Date

2021-10-02

Publish Date

2021-09-01

Page Start

69

Page End

81

Print ISSN

1110-0486

Online ISSN

2356-9840

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https://ajas.journals.ekb.eg/article_206782.html

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https://ajas.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=206782

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6

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Original Article

Type Code

62

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Assiut Journal of Agricultural Sciences

Publication Link

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

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Effect of Organic Liquid Vermicompost as a Substitute for Chemical Fertilizer on Morphological and Biochemical Characteristics in Lettuce.

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Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023