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Impacts of Successive Accumulation of Salinity, Drought, and Potassium on Maize (<I>Zea mays</i> L.) Germination and Growth

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Soils and water

Abstract

A greenhouse experiment of maize (Pioneer P444) was conducted in Bader region, Behera governorate, Egypt to investigate the successive salinity application, irrigation level and potassium salt effects on maize germination and growth. Three levels of irrigation were included (80, 60 and 40 % of the potential evapotranspiration (ET)) as a main factor and four potassium salts (Control, K2SO4, KNO3 and Salwax) as a sub factor with three replications. Moderately salinity water (≈4 dS/m) was used. Germination of seeds and growth parameters of maize were monitored. A second-degree polynomial was implemented to describe some growth parameters. The results showed that the potassium salts did not affect the seed germination in comparison to the control. The polynomial well described the plant height and leaf number as a function of growth time with an approximated R2 of 0.99. The plant height and leaf number increased as the irrigation level increased but the stem diameter behaved differently. The stem height and leaf growth rates decreased with time for all investigated treatments. The irrigation levels at 80 and 60 % ET quickly increased the soil salinity compared to that irrigated at 40 % ET.

DOI

10.21608/ajas.2022.128649.1125

Keywords

drought, salinity, Irrigation, Maize, potassium

Authors

First Name

Elsayed A.A.

Last Name

Abdelraouf

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Affiliation

Natural resources and Agricultural Engineering Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Damanhour University, Egypt

Email

elsayed.abdelraouf@agr.dmu.edu.eg

City

Damanhour

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First Name

Ibrahim N.

Last Name

Nassar

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Affiliation

Natural resources and Agricultural Engineering Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Damanhour University, Egypt

Email

inassar200@agr.dmu.edu.eg

City

Damanhour

Orcid

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First Name

Abdelwahed M.

Last Name

Shoman

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-

Affiliation

Natural resources and Agricultural Engineering Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Damanhour University, Egypt

Email

abdoshoman50@gmail.com

City

Damanhour

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Volume

53

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

35032

Issue Date

2022-06-01

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2022-03-21

Publish Date

2022-06-01

Page Start

101

Page End

117

Print ISSN

1110-0486

Online ISSN

2356-9840

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https://ajas.journals.ekb.eg/article_240812.html

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62

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Journal

Publication Title

Assiut Journal of Agricultural Sciences

Publication Link

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

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Impacts of Successive Accumulation of Salinity, Drought, and Potassium on Maize (<I>Zea mays</i> L.) Germination and Growth

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22 Jan 2023