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Efficacy of Zinc Foliar Application from Different Sources on Productivity and Fruit Quality of Wonderful Pomegranate trees

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Nanoparticles (NPs), especially from micronutrients, are recently motivated for replacing their common mineral counterparts. To evaluate their comparative efficacy, this investigation was conducted to estimate the impact of foliar application of zinc through different sources on productivity, fruit quality and improve marketable fruit of “Wonderful" pomegranate trees. The field experiment was performed during two seasons (2017 and 2018) on seven - year old pomegranate trees “Wonderful" cv., cultivated in a private “Hegazi" farm located at 57 km. from Cairo on the road to Alex., Egypt. Four sources of zinc named “Zinc Sulphate, Zinc mannitol complex, Bio-Nano zinc (Bio Zn NPs) and Zinc Oxide nanoparticle (ZnO NPs) with four rates from each other were sprayed twice (the first before one week from full bloom and the second after a month from the first). So the experiment included seventeen treatments in a sample study spread in a randomized complete block design by five replicates. Results explicated that the greatest significant values of fruit set% were recorded by Bio Nano Zinc (Bio Zn NPs) treatments especially (400 ppm Bio-Nano Zinc (Bio Zn NPs)). Spraying with (3000, 4000 ppm Zn mannitol complex) and (300, 400 ppm Bio-Nano Zinc (Bio Zn NPs)) showed significantly the greatest values of productivity, improves marketable fruits and fruit quality of “Wonderful" pomegranate trees. So it could be recommended by spraying “Wonderful" pomegranate trees by 3000 ppm Zinc mannitol complex or 300 ppm Bio-Nano zinc (Bio Zn NPs). Another important point is that the application of Bio Zn NPs fertilizer at around 10% from the commercial dose of zinc sulphate resulted in the same results without any change in the productivity, further researches are needed to study a further low level of Zinc Oxide nanoparticle (ZnO NPs) below (100 ppm Zinc Oxide nanoparticle (ZnO NPs)) which may be improving yield and fruit quality

DOI

10.21608/ajs.2020.22511.1153

Keywords

foliar application, pomegranate, yield, Zinc Sulphate, Zinc mannitol complex Bio Nano zinc, Zinc Oxide nanoparticle

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Amer

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M

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Hort. Dept., Fac. Agric., Ain Shams Univ.

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ramyamer86@agr.asu.edu.eg

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0000-0002-7415-8914

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Abd-Alhamid

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Hort. Dept., Fac. Agric., Ain Shams Univ.

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nazmy13460@yahoo.com

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Cairo

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1103010005622400018

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Laila

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Haggag

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F

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Pomology Department, National Research Center, Giza, Egypt

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laila.f.hagagg@outlook.com

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Noha

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Mansour

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Hort. Dept., Fac. Agric., Ain Shams Univ.

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nosy_mansour@agr.asu.edu.eg

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Korayem

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Microbiology. Dept., Fac. Agric., Ain Shams Univ.

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a_korayem@agr.asu.edu.eg

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28

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17359

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2020-03-01

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2020-01-16

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2020-03-01

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275

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291

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1110-2675

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2636-3585

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668

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Arab Universities Journal of Agricultural Sciences

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22 Jan 2023