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Effect of irrigation water quantity and salinity level on growth and internal chemical contents of Moringa plants

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Environmental chemistry

Abstract

Moringa 'the miracle tree' is a relatively new promising plant because of its rich nutritional value, viz. mineral nutrients, protein containing all amino acids, vitamins and antioxidants. The objective of this study was to determine the optimal water amount for Moringa productivity even under salinity conditions and to ensure getting better quality and more active substances from it for human nutrition. During the growing seasons of both 2020 and 2021, Moringa seedlings were irrigated with 12 different combinations using three water quantities, i.e. 100, 75 and 50% (of Class A pan evaporation equation) and four salinity levels, i.e. non-saline control, 2000, 3000 and 4000 ppm (NaCl from Rashid salt). The obtained results indicated that decreasing irrigation water quantity from 100 to 50% of pan evaporation negatively affected all vegetative growth characters of Moringa and decreased the contents of essential nutrients, crude protein, vitamin C and total chlorophyll, albeit the variations between 100 and 75% of pan evaporation sometimes were not significant. On the other hand, increasing salinity levels gradually reduced all vegetative growth characters of Moringa and decreased the essential nutrients, crude protein, vitamin C and total chlorophyll. Notably, Na and proline contents were increased with both decreasing irrigation water quantity and increasing of salinity level.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2022.144021.6283

Keywords

Miracle tree, Stress, Quality, proline, protein, vitamin c, Chlorophyll

Authors

First Name

Hesham

Last Name

Abdelaty

MiddleName

S.

Affiliation

M.Sc. student, Horticulture Dept., Faculty of Agriculture, Ain shams Univ., Cairo, Egypt

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hhesham470@yahoo.com

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First Name

Abdelaziz

Last Name

Hosni

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M.

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Horticulture Dept., Faculty of Agriculture, Ain shams Univ., Cairo, Egypt

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ezhosni@gmail.com

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First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Abdelhamid

MiddleName

N.

Affiliation

Horticulture Dept., Faculty of Agriculture, Ain shams Univ., Cairo, Egypt

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ahmed_nazmy@agr.asu.edu.eg

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First Name

Aboelfetoh

Last Name

Abdalla

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Horticultural Crops Technology Department, Institute of Agricultural and Biological, National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt. P.O. 12622

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aboelfetoh2015@yahoo.com

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65

Article Issue

12

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35799

Issue Date

2022-12-01

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2022-06-10

Publish Date

2022-12-01

Page Start

79

Page End

85

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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297

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Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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Effect of irrigation water quantity and salinity level on growth and internal chemical contents of Moringa plants

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22 Jan 2023