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RESPONSE OF VEGETATIVE GROWTH OF LEMON BALM TO COMPOST AND ANTIOXIDANT TREATMENTS

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Last updated: 05 Jan 2025

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Tags

Medicinal and aromatic plants.

Abstract

This research was undertaken in the two seasons 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 at the Nursery of Ornamental Plants, Fac. Agric., Minia Univ., Egypt to examine the response of vegetative growth of Melissa officinalis, L. to compost (0, 4, 8 and 12 ton /feddan) and some antioxidants such as amino acids (1 and 2 ml/l) , seaweed extract (1.5 and 3 ml/l) and vitamin E (100 and 200 ppm) treatments. Data revealed that all vegetative growth (plant height, stem diameter, number of branches, leaf area and weights either fresh or dry were significantly increased with fertilizing plants with compost relative to control through the three cuts during both seasons. Moreover, all aforementioned parameters were increased from the first cut up to the third one except the plant height took the opposite trend. All treatments used of antioxidants significantly increased all above-mentioned parameters compared to the control through the three cuts during both seasons. Vitamin E at low concentration was superior in this concern. The best interaction treatment was to supplying plants with compost at 8 or 12 ton/fed and vitamin E at 100 ppm or sea algae at high concentration (3 ml/l).

DOI

10.21608/sjhr.2024.397392

Keywords

Melissa officinalis, antioxidant, Vitamin E, Amino acids, sea algae, Vegetative growth

Authors

First Name

M.

Last Name

Abdou

MiddleName

A.H.

Affiliation

Hort. Dept., Fac. Agric., Minia Univ., Egypt

Email

mahmoudhassanabdouh@gmail.com

City

Minia

Orcid

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First Name

Ragaa

Last Name

Taha

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Hort. Dept., Fac. Agric., Minia Univ., Egypt

Email

-

City

Minia

Orcid

-

First Name

Randa

Last Name

Mahmoud

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Hort. Dept., Fac. Agric., Minia Univ., Egypt

Email

-

City

Minia

Orcid

-

Volume

2

Article Issue

3

Related Issue

51784

Issue Date

2024-07-01

Receive Date

2024-06-12

Publish Date

2024-07-01

Page Start

41

Page End

54

Print ISSN

2974-4563

Online ISSN

2974-4571

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https://sjhr.journals.ekb.eg/article_397392.html

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397,392

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Original Research Article

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2,869

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Scientific Journal of Horticultural Research

Publication Link

https://sjhr.journals.ekb.eg/

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RESPONSE OF VEGETATIVE GROWTH OF LEMON BALM TO COMPOST AND ANTIOXIDANT TREATMENTS

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Created At

20 Dec 2024