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Improving Wheat Growth and Yield through Application of Compost and Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria under Deficit Irrigation in a Sandy Soil

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Physics and Water Relations
Soil Microbiology

Abstract

A greenhouse pot experiment was conducted at the Experimental Farm of the Faculty of Agriculture, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt. The effectiveness of a mixture of two plant growth promoting rhizobacteria, PGPR, (i.e. B. subtilis EF1 and P. fluorescens KW1) and four compost application rates (0.00, 0.50, 0.75 and 1.0% W/W) under three irrigation water quantities (1.0, 0.8 and 0.6 from crop evapotranspiration, ETc) was studied in a sandy soil cultivated with wheat plant (Triticum aestivum L.). The results showed that, the shoot of 90-day old plants and straw and grain yields of 120-day old plants wheat were increased with increasing the added amount of both irrigation water and compost. The highest grain and straw yields were obtained under the treatment 1.0 ETc + 1.0% compost with the biofertilizer where the increases over the corresponding control were 87.1 and 34.4%, respectively. No significant difference was observed in water productivity between 1.0 and 0.8 ETc. Relative water content and electrolyte leakage of the 90-day old plants were found to be enhanced by raising the amounts of the studied factors. The current study suggested that, 20% of irrigation water used for wheat might be saved by applying 1.0% compost and the biofertilizer without any significant reduction in wheat yield.

DOI

10.21608/jsws.2020.156304

Keywords

PGPR, Wheat, soil enzymes, deficit irrigation and water productivity

Authors

First Name

Ahmed A. El-Kharbotly

Last Name

Osama M. Ghanem

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Soil and Water Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Suez Canal University, 41522 Ismailia, Egypt

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osama_ramadan@agr.suez.edu.eg

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5

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1

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14330

Issue Date

2020-06-01

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2020-01-05

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2020-02-10

Page Start

21

Page End

30

Print ISSN

2314-7997

Online ISSN

2636-2724

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561

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Journal of Soil and Water Sciences

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https://jsws.journals.ekb.eg/

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Improving Wheat Growth and Yield through Application of Compost and Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria under Deficit Irrigation in a Sandy Soil

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22 Jan 2023