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Effect of Mining Diatoms and GA3 foliar applications on Navel orange tree performance.

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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his study was carried out during two successive seasons (2015/016 and 2016/017) on Washington Navel orange trees grown in sandy–loamy soil under flooding irrigation system with Nile water in a private orchard at Qalub district, El-Qalubia Governorate, Egypt. This experiment studied the effect of spraying trees with diatoms at 0.5, 0.75 and1.00 kg or GA3 at 25 ppm during 25 %, 75 % or twice 25 & 75% of full-bloom on inflorescences types, fruit set %, leaf pigments, leaf minerals content and  tree yield efficiency as fruit number & weight  and  fruit quality. Results showed that spraying of diatoms (0.5kg / 600L) on Navel orange trees at 75 % of full-bloom significantly increased leaf pigments contents. Spraying  diatoms  once at 25% or twice  25 & 75% % of full- bloom at 1.00 kg/600L improved with significant effect : fruit set % , leaf minerals content and  tree yield efficiency as fruit number & weight  and  fruit quality ( fruit size , fruit  hardness ) and (TSS %, TA % , TSS/ acid ratio and V. C content). Also, spraying of GA3 at 25 ppm during 75% of full bloom statistically increased leaf iron, juice V. C and fruit hardness. Moreover, both diatoms and GA3 reduced fruit drop and weight of peel when compared to the control. On the other hand, diatoms or GA3 treatments had insignificant effect on leaf potassium, Chl. b, total carotenoids, zinc and number of both leafy and leafless inflorescences.

DOI

10.21608/ejoh.2018.2899.1047

Keywords

Navel orange, Diatoms, GA3, leafy and leafless inflorescences

Authors

First Name

Amal

Last Name

El-Baowab

MiddleName

Ahmed

Affiliation

Pomology, Agriculture, Cairo univ. Giza, Egypt

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emygds@gmail.com

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Giza

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45

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1

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868

Issue Date

2018-04-01

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2018-02-11

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2018-04-01

Page Start

39

Page End

51

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1110-0206

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2357-0903

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137

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Egyptian Journal of Horticulture

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Effect of Mining Diatoms and GA3 foliar applications on Navel orange tree performance.

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22 Jan 2023