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Effect of Zinc and Boron foliar application on leaf chemical composition of Moringa oleifera and on yield and characters of its seed oil

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Environmental chemistry

Abstract

Extracted oils from plants make up an important part of human life wellbeing all over the world, specially oils containing polyunsaturated acids, such as oleic, linoleic and palmitoleic acids. In Egypt, vegetable oils are produced from multiple sources such as: cotton, soybeans and sunflower. Unfortunately, all these sources do not fulfill consumer requirements. So it is important to find alternate sources of edible oils. Therefore, this study was aimed to evaluate the chemical composition of three-year-old Moringa oleifera trees and their seed oil characterization as affected using foliar application with zinc (Z) and boron (B). Treatments included two doses of solo-foliar application of Zinc (Zn1 & Zn2) or Boron (B1 & B2) and four combinations between the two doses of Zn and B (Zn1B1, Zn1B2, Zn2B1 and Zn2B2) compared to an untreated control. Chemical composition of Moringa oleifera leaves, i.e. N, P, K, Zn, B, Protein (%) and vitamin C including physical and chemical characters of Moringa oleifera oil, i.e. oil yield (%), specific gravity, refractive index, acid number, saponification number, ester number and free fatty acids were evaluated. The obtained results reflected that all foliar application treatments improved Moringa oleifera chemical composition in leaf samples, not to mention seed oil physical and chemical characters compared to the untreated control.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2022.141002.6164

Keywords

Moringa, zinc, Boron, Leaves chemical composition, Seeds oil, Oil physical and chemical characters

Authors

First Name

Fardous

Last Name

Abdelwanis

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Horti. Crops Tech. Dept., National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt

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fardowsmohammad@yahoo.com

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First Name

Abdelaziz

Last Name

Hosni

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

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

Email

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

Email

ahmed_nazmy@agr.asu.edu.eg

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First Name

Ahmad

Last Name

Sulman

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Horti. Crops Tech. Dept., National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt

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a_elsagheer2006@yahoo.com

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First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Ezoo

MiddleName

I.

Affiliation

Horti. Crops Tech. Dept., National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt

Email

tarkezo@yahoo.com

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Orcid

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First Name

Said

Last Name

Saleh

MiddleName

Abdelhalim

Affiliation

Horticultural Crops Technology Dept., National Research Centre, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

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said_abohesham@yahoo.com

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0000-0001-6485-6922

Volume

65

Article Issue

12

Related Issue

35799

Issue Date

2022-12-01

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2022-05-26

Publish Date

2022-12-01

Page Start

87

Page End

93

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/article_241889.html

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=241889

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297

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Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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

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Effect of Zinc and Boron foliar application on leaf chemical composition of Moringa oleifera and on yield and characters of its seed oil

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22 Jan 2023