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The Role of Nano-Silica in Reducing the Negative Impact of Different Shocks on Cucumber Plant Growth

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The current research aims to determine whether salinity in irrigation water, frost, drought, and heat damage to cucumbers may be reduced or avoided by using manufactured nano-silica (NaSiPs) particles.  After soaking the seeds for 3 hours in a nano-silica suspension, seedlings with a length of 15 cm in the greenhouse were ‎sprayed with various NaSiPs ‎concentrations (0, 100, ‎‎200, and 400 ‎mg L-1). When the plant reached 30 ‎cm in length, the various shock treatments were applied. ‎ At harvest,  some vegetative parameters were determined as well as chemical analysis of plants (root, leaves , and fruits). The results confirmed that NaSiPs were effective in reducing the negative effects of ‎ various shocks ‎on ‎plant ‎biometrics, chlorophyll, and fruit yield. The findings revealed that there were no significant ‎effects ‎of the ‎two-way interaction between shock treatments and nano-silica rates on the plant ‎biometrics, chlorophyll, ‎and fruit ‎yield. The concentrations of sodium and potassium ‎in roots, leaves, and fruits, as well as ‎ silicon and proline in roots and leaves, were found to have the same effects. Except for Na and ‎K in ‎fruits and leaves, all parameters studied increased with increasing nano-silica rates, ‎ with the exception of fruit sodium and leaf potassium concentration. The shocks had the following order: ‎control > salinity > frost ‎‎> ‎dryness > ‎heat.‎ SiNP400 treatment of plants reduced the negative effects of ‎various ‎shocks‎. ‎

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10.21608/jssae.2022.147634.1090

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Cucumber, shocks, nanosilica, silicon, proline

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Alsaeedi

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Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Faculty of Agriculture and Food Science, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia.

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Elgarawany

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Soil fertility and plant nutrition Department- Soil Water and Environment Institute - Agricultural Research Center - Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation

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garawany5000@yahoo.com

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Alexandria

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Alameer

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J.

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Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture

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13

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8

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36051

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2022-08-01

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2022-08-10

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2022-08-01

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265

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274

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2090-3685

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2090-3766

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Journal of Soil Sciences and Agricultural Engineering

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The Role of Nano-Silica in Reducing the Negative Impact of Different Shocks on Cucumber Plant Growth

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22 Jan 2023