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EFFECT OF SOME ALTERNATIVE SOLID SUBSTRATE MEDIA ON VEGETATIVE GROWTH CHARACTERISTICS OF TOMATO

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Last updated: 25 Dec 2024

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Plant Production

Abstract

Field experiments were conducted to evaluate the suitability of using some materials derived from agricultural and agriculture industrial wastes as alternative growth media for tomato cultivation grown under low plastic tunnels. Field trials were conducted at the Experimental Farm, Faculty of Environmental Agricultural Sciences, Arish University, North Sinai, Egypt under low plastic tunnels during winter growing seasons of 2017/2018 and 2018/2019. This study included sixteen treatments (five substrate media, i.e, sand, sawdust, pressed olive cake, crashed wheat straw and vegetative green waste compost) and their combinations at a ratio of 1:1 (V/V) as well as coco peat as a control medium. The chemical properties of these substrates and their effects on plant growth were studied. Results indicated that addition of coco peat was the best growing media for vegetative growth (number of leaves/plant, plant height, number of branches/plant, root, as well as fresh and dry weight of tomato in both seasons at 40 days after transplanting. However, at 65 days after transplanting pressed olive cake +wheat straw medium was the superior treatment, since recorded the highest values for the studied traits in the first season. However, in the second season, the highest number of leaves and branches /plant were achieved with green waste compost + sand medium, while the highest plant height value was recorded with coco peat medium. Green waste compost, pressed olive cake + green waste compost, sand and sawdust medium showed the highest value for each of fresh and dry weight. Meanwhile, total leaves chlorophyll contents, in general, were the best with pressed olive cake + green waste compost medium in the first season, while green waste compost + sand medium recorded the highest content of Chlorophyll in the second season. Also, wheat straw and pressed olive cake, as well as, their combination showed the highest concentration of nitrogen and phosphorus in leaves of tomato plants.

DOI

10.21608/sinjas.2021.97276.1053

Keywords

Tomato, Soilless, Growth media, law plastic tunnels, pressed olive cake

Authors

First Name

Sara

Last Name

Awad

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Affiliation

Dept. Plant Prod. (Veg.), Fac. Environ. Agric. Sci., Arish Univ., Egypt.

Email

saranageb.awad@yahoo.com

City

North Sinai

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First Name

Mahmoud

Last Name

Mahmoud

MiddleName

I.

Affiliation

Dept. Plant Prod. (Veg.), Fac. Environ. Agric. Sci., Arish Univ., Egypt.

Email

mahmoud3870748@gmail.com

City

El Arish

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First Name

Ali

Last Name

El-Kassas

MiddleName

I.

Affiliation

Dept. Plant Prod. (Veg.), Fac. Environ. Agric. Sci., Arish Univ., Egypt.

Email

alielkasas_elkasas@yahoo.com

City

North sinai

Orcid

-

First Name

Nazeer

Last Name

Easa

MiddleName

M.H.

Affiliation

Dept. Prot. Cult., Hort. Res. Inst., Agric. Res. Cent., Dokki, Giza, Egypt.

Email

neasa15@yahoo.com

City

Cairo

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Volume

10

Article Issue

3

Related Issue

30131

Issue Date

2021-12-01

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2021-09-21

Publish Date

2021-12-01

Page Start

315

Page End

328

Print ISSN

2314-6079

Online ISSN

2682-3527

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Publication Title

Sinai Journal of Applied Sciences

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https://sinjas.journals.ekb.eg/

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EFFECT OF SOME ALTERNATIVE SOLID SUBSTRATE MEDIA ON VEGETATIVE GROWTH CHARACTERISTICS OF TOMATO

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Created At

22 Jan 2023