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EFFECT OF NATURAL ACTIVATOR (BIOHORM) AND HUMIC ACID ON GROWTH AND QUALITY OF CYCAS PLANT

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Landscape gardening
Ornamental plants

Abstract

This investigation was conducted under open field conditions at the Experimental Farm of Hort. Res. Inst., ARC, Giza, Egypt during 2014 and 2015 seasons to find out the response of two-years-old cycas plant (Cycas revoluta, Thunb.) grown in 20-cm diameter plastic pots filled with about 2.5 kg of a mixture of sand, clay and peatmoss (1:1:1, v:v:v) to natural activator viz. BioHorm at 1 and 3 ml/l and commercial humic acid liquid fertilizer (high K humic acid) at the rate of 5 ml/l (as a foliar spray 6 times with one month interval) and their interactions.
The results showed that all vegetative and root growth parameters, were significantly improved over control in response to either single or combined treatments applied in this study, but the best individual treatments were humic acid at 5 ml/l followed by BioHorm at 3 ml/l. The best improvement was obtained when combining BioHorm at 3m/l + humic acid at 5 ml/l which gave high means of vegetative and root growth parameters at all in the two seasons. A similar trend was also observed as well regarding the content of chlorophyll a, b, carotenoids, N, P, K, total carbohydrates % and total indoles in the leaves, but the phenols content was decreased in all treatments.
Hence, it is recommended to spray the cycas plants with combination of BioHorm at 3 ml/l + 5 ml/l humic acid to score the best growth performance and highest quality.

DOI

10.21608/sjfop.2016.5125

Keywords

Cycas revoluta Thunb, natural activator, Humic acid, Vegetative growth, root growth

Authors

First Name

Boshra

Last Name

El-Sayed

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Ornamental Plants and Landscape Gardening Res. Dept., Hort. Res. Inst., ARC, Giza, Egypt

Email

boshra_arc@yahoo.com

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First Name

Tarek

Last Name

Noor El-Deen

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Ornamental Plants and Landscape Gardening Res. Dept., Hort. Res. Inst., ARC, Giza, Egypt

Email

taiar2005@yahoo.com

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Orcid

0000-0002-9438-8995

First Name

Lobna

Last Name

Abdel-Galeil

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Central Lab. for Res. & Date Palm Develop., Hort. Res. Inst., ARC, Giza, Egypt

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City

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Orcid

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First Name

Warda

Last Name

Aly

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Ornamental Plants and Landscape Gardening Res. Dept., Hort. Res. Inst., ARC, Giza, Egypt

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Volume

3

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

213

Issue Date

2016-03-01

Receive Date

2016-01-10

Publish Date

2016-03-01

Page Start

79

Page End

86

Print ISSN

2356-7864

Online ISSN

2536-9296

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Original Research Article

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328

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Publication Title

Scientific Journal of Flowers and Ornamental Plants

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https://sjfop.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

EFFECT OF NATURAL ACTIVATOR (BIOHORM) AND HUMIC ACID ON GROWTH AND QUALITY OF CYCAS PLANT

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Created At

22 Jan 2023