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Influence of Foliar Spray with Calcium Chloride on Growth, Yield and quality of lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.)

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Horticulture (Vegetable, Pomology and Ornamentals)

Abstract

In the present investigation, we study the effect of calcium chloride (0,10,20 mM) as foliar spray on morphological, yield, and quality of lettuce plants (Romaine and green waves cultivars) during 2017/2018 and 2018/2019 seasons. Our results indicated that, foliar application of calcium chloride either at 10 or 20mM significantly increased vegetative growth parameters i.e., leaf number plant-1, fresh weight and dry weight of leaves. Also, foliar application of calcium chloride resulted to a significant increase in yield and quality parameters i.e., TSS, chlorophyll content and vitamin C. ‘Romaine' cultivar significantly superior to ‘Green waves' cultivar in plant height, fresh and dry weights of the leaves, TSS and chlorophyll content. However, there was no significant difference in vitamin C content between the two tested cultivars. ‘Green waves' cv. Sprayed with 20 mM calcium chloride (CaCl2) treatment gave the highest significant leaf number per plant. Fresh and dry weights of leaves of ‘Romaine' cv. were the highest when plants sprayed with20 mM calcium chloride in both seasons. However, in season 1, ‘Romaine' cv. Plants sprayed with 20mM of calcium chloride produced the highest total yield, while the highest total yield in season 2 was obtained from plants of both two tested cultivars sprayed with20mM of calcium chloride. ‘Romaine' cultivar treated with 20 mM of calcium chloride as foliar application had the highest TSS and chlorophyll content. Applying calcium chloride as foliar application at 20mM was the most effective in improving yield quantity and quality in both ‘Romaine' and ‘Green waves' cultivars.

DOI

10.21608/ajas.2022.112176.1074

Keywords

cultivars, yield, Quality, Parameters

Authors

First Name

shreen yacoub attallah

Last Name

Attallah

MiddleName

yacoub

Affiliation

کلية الزراعة جامعة اسيوط

Email

shrnmgdy@yahoo.com

City

Assuit

Orcid

0000-0001-9206-4762

First Name

ريهام

Last Name

عبدالله

MiddleName

محمد

Affiliation

جامعة اسيوط-کلية الزراعة

Email

reham.abdalla@aun.edu.eg

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Volume

52

Article Issue

4

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28850

Issue Date

2021-11-01

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2021-12-20

Publish Date

2021-11-01

Page Start

116

Page End

128

Print ISSN

1110-0486

Online ISSN

2356-9840

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https://ajas.journals.ekb.eg/article_223226.html

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9

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Research papers

Type Code

298

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Assiut Journal of Agricultural Sciences

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

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22 Jan 2023