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Enhancing bottle gourd growth and fruit characteristics through the stimulant effects of humic acid, seaweed extract, and salicylic acid

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Last updated: 05 Jan 2025

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Agriculture
Plant Production.

Abstract

Bottle gourd is a highly nutritious crop with great important as health staples. On the other hand, organic acids have been widely used to improve the quality and quantity of horticultural crops as an alternative to mineral fertilizers, which have shown negative effects on the environment and health. This study was conducted during the two successive seasons 2021 and 2022 at the Agricultural Experimental Farm, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Aswan University, Aswan, Egypt. The experiment investigated three plant growth stimulators; humic acid (HA), seaweed extract (SW) and salicylic acid (SA). The study aimed to evaluate the effect of those stimulators on bottle gourd growth and fruit characteristics. The stimulators showed significant effects on growth characteristics such as plant height and number of leaves, but the effects were not clear for number of flowers and fruits. In the same line, the stimulators showed significant effects on fruit dry weight and its seeds dry weight, but not for fruit length and diameter. HA at high concentration (6 g/L) showed high values of both growth and fruit characteristics. Meanwhile SA showed high impact on growth characters at 0.6 g/L, and high dry weight of fruits and its seeds at low 0.2 g/L concentration. From the results of this study, it can be recommended to treat bottle gourd with HA at 6 g/L to ensure significant improvement in both plant growth and fruit characteristics. 

DOI

10.21608/aujst.2023.325579

Keywords

Lagenaria siceraria, biostimulators, Algae extract, growth characters, fruit characters

Authors

First Name

Rofayda

Last Name

Sayed

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Affiliation

Horticulture Department, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Aswan University

Email

rofaydasaid09@gmail.com

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First Name

Wagdi

Last Name

Soliman

MiddleName

Saber

Affiliation

Horticulture Department, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Aswan University

Email

wagdi79@agr.aswu.edu.eg

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Orcid

0000-0002-9423-9519

First Name

Sabri

Last Name

Salaheldin

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Institute, Beni Suef University

Email

sabri.salaheldin@agr.aswu.edu.eg

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First Name

Abd-Allah

Last Name

Gahory

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Horticulture Department, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Aswan University, Aswan, Egypt

Email

abdallahgahory@agr.aswu.edu.eg

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Volume

3

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

44321

Issue Date

2023-12-01

Receive Date

2023-11-11

Publish Date

2023-12-01

Page Start

56

Page End

66

Print ISSN

2735-3087

Online ISSN

2735-3095

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2,312

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Publication Title

Aswan University Journal of Sciences and Technology

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https://aujst.journals.ekb.eg/

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Enhancing bottle gourd growth and fruit characteristics through the stimulant effects of humic acid, seaweed extract, and salicylic acid

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29 Dec 2024