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EFFECTS OF SOME NATURAL SOIL AMENDMENTS AND WATER REQUIREMENTS ON THE GROWTH AND CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS OF SOME LAWNS (PASPALUM VAGINATUM, L.)

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Landscape gardening
Ornamental plants

Abstract

The aim of this research was to improve properties of calcareous soil by adding two natural soil conditioners (sand + compost) with different rations, i.e., calcareous, calcareous + composted leaves (3:1 v/v), calcareous + sand (3:1 v/v) and calcareous + sand + composted leaves (1.5:1.5:1 v/v/v))  combined with  three rates of irrigation 5.00 l/m2  as severe stress, 10.00 l/m2  as moderate stress and 15.00 l/m2  as normal stress) on Paspalum. The experimental design was a split-plot design. Natural soil amendments were listed as the primary component, with various irrigation rates included as a subfactor. Resulted from media consisting of calcareous + sand + composted leaves (1.5:1.5:1 v/v/v) with the addition of the third level (15.00 l/m2) of irrigation rate, gave the highest reduction for the time required to give covering complete (44.916 days) and produced the maximum increase in total fresh (989.772 g/m2) and dry weight (221.492 g/m2) of vegetative growth, fresh weight of rhizome (379.854 g/m2) and dry weight (85.551 g/m2). Also, highest significant increase in the total chlorophylls (258.595 mg/100 g L.F.W.), carotenoids (60.779 mg/g L.F.W.) and total carbohydrates (267.384) in rhizomes at 15.00 l/m2 with the growing medium of calcareous + sand + composted leaves (1.5:1.5:1 v/v/v). Natural soil amendments (sand, plant compost) reduced the harmful effects of stress and improved plant resistance to water stress when using irrigation at the moderate stress rate of 10.00 l/m2. Accordingly, it could be recommended that high-quality lawns (P. vaginatum, L.) be produced by growing Paspalum in a mixture of calcareous + sand + composted leaves (1.5:1.5:1 v/v/v) as the best natural soil amendments and irrigation with the rate of 10 as moderate stress and/or15.00 l/m2.

DOI

10.21608/sjfop.2024.376813

Keywords

Lawns, Paspalum vaginatum, L, natural soil amendments, water requirements, growing media, soil conditions, compost, Drought tolerance, Drought stress, Graminae

Authors

First Name

Ali

Last Name

El-Naggar

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Affiliation

Floriculture, Ornamental Horticulture and landscape Gardening Dept., Fac. of Agric., (EL-Shatby), Alexandria Univ. Egypt

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elnaggaraly73@yahoo.com

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First Name

G.

Last Name

Imhmd

MiddleName

F.M.

Affiliation

Fac. Agric., Omar-Almuktar Univ., Bayda, Libya

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City

Bayda, Libya

Orcid

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First Name

Eman

Last Name

Hamid

MiddleName

B.A.

Affiliation

Fac. Agric., Omar-Almuktar Univ., Bayda, Libya

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Bayda, Libya

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Volume

11

Article Issue

2

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50054

Issue Date

2024-06-01

Receive Date

2024-06-30

Publish Date

2024-06-01

Page Start

43

Page End

54

Print ISSN

2356-7864

Online ISSN

2536-9296

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376,813

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Original Research Article

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328

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Publication Title

Scientific Journal of Flowers and Ornamental Plants

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https://sjfop.journals.ekb.eg/

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EFFECTS OF SOME NATURAL SOIL AMENDMENTS AND WATER REQUIREMENTS ON THE GROWTH AND CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS OF SOME LAWNS (PASPALUM VAGINATUM, L.)

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23 Dec 2024