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Improvement of the physiological and phytochemical characteristics of guava (psidium guajava l.) Leaves and fruits by using foliar applications of calcium chloride, zinc sulfate

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Botany

Abstract

The investigation focused on the impacts of specific nutrients as calcium chloride (CaCl2) at 0.4 and 0.6%, zinc sulfate (ZnSO4) at 0.4 and 0.5% and boric acid (B(OH)3) at 50 and100 ppm one and two sprays on delay senescence of leaves and fruit quality of guava yield in eleven years old guava at the Qalyub area, Qalyubeia Governorate, Egypt, under randomized block design with factorial approach.‎ It was discovered in this study that there had been considerable improvements in the foliar application of CaCl2, ZnSO4 and B(OH)3 on physiological and biochemical characteristics in leaves led to an increasing in the pigments of photosynthesis, proline (Pro), total sugars content (TSC), total phenolic content (TPC) and NPK contents and a decreasing in anthocyanin (ACY), poly-phenol oxidase (PPO) and peroxidase (POD) activity which reflected positively on the quality of guava fruits and led to an increase in firmness and total soluble solids (TSS) and decrease in respiration coefficient compared with the control. . In all, the single spray was better compared to the two sprays, although the two sprays were distinguished in some cases from the single spray.

DOI

10.21608/ajar.2023.221875.1188

Keywords

guava, pre-harvest, Nutrients

Authors

First Name

Mahmoud

Last Name

Salama

MiddleName

Kamal

Affiliation

Department of Agricultural Botany, Faculty of Agriculture in Cairo, Al-Azhar University

Email

mahmoudkamal@azhar.edu.eg

City

Giza

Orcid

0009-0006-9831-6012

First Name

Mostafa

Last Name

Elnabarawy

MiddleName

Abd-Elkader

Affiliation

Department of Agricultural Botany, Faculty of Agriculture in Cairo, Al-Azhar University

Email

elnabarawy1956@gmail.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

-

First Name

Magdy

Last Name

Omar

MiddleName

Abd-elwahab

Affiliation

Department of Agricultural Botany, Faculty of Agriculture in Cairo, Al-Azhar University

Email

magdyomar673.el@azhar.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

0000-0002-1307-0193

First Name

Mostafa

Last Name

Sultan

MiddleName

Zaki

Affiliation

Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture in Cairo, Al-Azhar University

Email

sultanmostafa2010@gmail.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

-

Volume

48

Article Issue

3

Related Issue

46331

Issue Date

2023-10-01

Receive Date

2023-07-09

Publish Date

2023-10-01

Page Start

148

Page End

160

Print ISSN

1110-1563

Online ISSN

2786-0051

Link

https://ajar.journals.ekb.eg/article_310441.html

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310,441

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Original Article

Type Code

929

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Al-Azhar Journal of Agricultural Research

Publication Link

https://ajar.journals.ekb.eg/

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Improvement of the physiological and phytochemical characteristics of guava (psidium guajava l.) Leaves and fruits by using foliar applications of calcium chloride, zinc sulfate

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24 Dec 2024