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Application of biostimulants promotes growth and productivity of heat-stressed tomato (Solanum lycoperosicum) plants.

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Last updated: 28 Dec 2024

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Plant biostimulants are natural substances commonly used in recent decades in the agricultural practices primarily for plant defense and to enhance plant growth, yield and quality of tomato plant. This study was conducted to investigate the effect of biostimulants foliar application on growth, productivity, and fruit quality of tomato plants during the summer season of 2020 and 2021. Tomato plants were sprayed twice (at 15 days interval) with biostimulants i.e., date palm pollen grains extract, bee pollen grains extract, chito boom (5% chitosan, 9% B, 1.15% amino acids and 0.05% Mo), algeno plus (50% Potassium alginate, 0.92% Mg, 1.75% S, 0.52 % Fe, 0.25% Mn, 0.15 % Zn, 0.25% B, 0.004 % Mo and 0.73% cytokines), fast tunic (2.5% NAA and 0.6% sodium nitrophenolate), and water  as control. The results indicated that date palm pollen and bee pollen extracts significantly increased plant height when compared to control. Bee pollen and algeno plus significantly increased number of branches. These treatments in addition to chito bom, increased leaf area and leaf perimeter. All biostimulants significantly decreased Malondialdehyde (MDA), while they exhibited a significant increase for peroxides, proline and total phenols, total fruit yield, fruit weight per plant and fruit number per plant. Bee pollen and chito bom improved fruit contents of total sugar, beta-carotene, lycopene and these treatments in addition to date palm pollen increased vitamin C and acidity. Bee pollen grains, and date palm pollen grains extracts, chitosan could be recommended to alleviate high temperature stress on tomato plants.

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10.21608/fjard.2023.311918

Keywords

Solanum lycoperosicum, bee pollen grains, date palm pollen grains, Chitosan, algae, heat stress

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Shereen S. F.

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EL-Sayed

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Vegetable Crops Department, Fac. Agric., Cairo University, Giza

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Omaima S.

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Darwish

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Vegetable Crops Department, Fac. Agric., Cairo University, Giza

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Volume

37

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3

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42537

Issue Date

2023-07-01

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2023-08-09

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2023-07-01

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582

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598

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1110-7790

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2805-2528

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1,920

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Fayoum Journal of Agricultural Research and Development

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Application of biostimulants promotes growth and productivity of heat-stressed tomato (Solanum lycoperosicum) plants.

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28 Dec 2024