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Evaluating the Efficiency of Organic Manures and Seaweed Extract on the Improvement of Growth and Productivity of <I>Foeniculum vulgare</i> Mill. Plants

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Horticulture (Vegetable, Pomology and Ornamentals)

Abstract

A field trial was conducted to assess the impact of organic manures (cattle and chicken manure) at rates of 2, 4 kg/plot (2m2) and seaweed extract concentrations (0, 2, 3 and 4 ml/l) on growth, yield and volatile oil constituents of fennel plants (Foeniculum vulgare Mill.) during the two successive seasons of 2020/2021 and 2021/2022. The chicken manure treatment at 4 kg/plot achieved the best results regarding all F. vulgare vegetative growth (except plant height), Fruit yield productivity and its constituents of the volatile oil. Foliar application treatment of seaweed extract in high concentration (4 ml/l) cleared significant impact on plant height, stem diameter, branch number/plant, umbel number/plant, fruit yield/plant, total fruit yield/feddan, volatile oil percentage, volatile oil yield per plant and per feddan during both seasons. Volatile oil samples of F. vulgare fruits collected from plants grown in soil amended with chicken manure at 4 kg/plot gave the highest percentage of anethole compound (39.13 %) and the lowest percentage of estragole compound (14.08%) in comparison with the other organic manure treatments as average of both seasons. The higher concentration of seaweed extract increased the percentage of anethole comparing with other concentrations. The foliar application by seaweed extract in high concentration on plants fertilized with chicken manure at the highest level seems to be the best interaction for getting higher yield and volatile oil of F. vulgare.

DOI

10.21608/ajas.2023.194740.1235

Keywords

Fennel, chicken manure, cattle manure, seaweed extract, Volatile oil

Authors

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Naglaa S.

Last Name

Ali

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Floriculture Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Egypt

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snaglaa597@gmail.com

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First Name

Mohamed M.

Last Name

Gad

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Affiliation

Floriculture Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Egypt

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dr.mohamedgad.mg@hotmail.com

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First Name

Essam Y.

Last Name

Abdul-Hafeez

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Affiliation

Floriculture Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Egypt

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noresam_2000@yahoo.com

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Assiut

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Volume

54

Article Issue

2

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40105

Issue Date

2023-04-01

Receive Date

2023-02-21

Publish Date

2023-04-20

Page Start

91

Page End

107

Print ISSN

1110-0486

Online ISSN

2356-9840

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https://ajas.journals.ekb.eg/article_298303.html

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62

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Assiut Journal of Agricultural Sciences

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https://ajas.journals.ekb.eg/

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Evaluating the Efficiency of Organic Manures and Seaweed Extract on the Improvement of Growth and Productivity of <I>Foeniculum vulgare</i> Mill. Plants

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23 Dec 2024