Sharaf EL-Din, M., Fouda, R., EL-Gamal, S., Shalan, M. (2013). EFFECT OF ORGANIC AND BIO-FERTILIZERS ON SOME QUALITY AND QUANTITY CHARACTERS OF Mentha piperita L. PLANTS. Journal of Plant Production, 4(3), 401-416. doi: 10.21608/jpp.2013.72140
M. N. Sharaf EL-Din; R. A. Fouda; S. A. EL-Gamal; M. M. N. Shalan. "EFFECT OF ORGANIC AND BIO-FERTILIZERS ON SOME QUALITY AND QUANTITY CHARACTERS OF Mentha piperita L. PLANTS". Journal of Plant Production, 4, 3, 2013, 401-416. doi: 10.21608/jpp.2013.72140
Sharaf EL-Din, M., Fouda, R., EL-Gamal, S., Shalan, M. (2013). 'EFFECT OF ORGANIC AND BIO-FERTILIZERS ON SOME QUALITY AND QUANTITY CHARACTERS OF Mentha piperita L. PLANTS', Journal of Plant Production, 4(3), pp. 401-416. doi: 10.21608/jpp.2013.72140
Sharaf EL-Din, M., Fouda, R., EL-Gamal, S., Shalan, M. EFFECT OF ORGANIC AND BIO-FERTILIZERS ON SOME QUALITY AND QUANTITY CHARACTERS OF Mentha piperita L. PLANTS. Journal of Plant Production, 2013; 4(3): 401-416. doi: 10.21608/jpp.2013.72140
EFFECT OF ORGANIC AND BIO-FERTILIZERS ON SOME QUALITY AND QUANTITY CHARACTERS OF Mentha piperita L. PLANTS
1Veget. and Floric. Dept., Fac. of Agric., Mansoura Univ.
2Agric. Plant Dept., Fac. of Agric., Mansoura Univ.
3Hort. Res. Inst., Agric. Res. Center, Cairo.
Abstract
A nutritional experiments were carried out on Peppermint plants (Mentha piperita L.) at the experimental Baramoon Research Farm, Dakahlya Governorate, Egypt, during the two successive seasons, 2010-2011 and 2011-2012, aiming to investigate the effect of (FYM), humic acid, microbein and phosphorein, as well as active dry yeast on vegetative growth, herb yield, essential oil production and chemical composition of plants.
The results showed that in both seasons, all fertilizer treatments achieved significantly better growth and yield than the untreated plants (control). Treatments included that plant biomass responded linearly to (FYM) application and most values of all measurements were realized at the rate of 30 m3/fed. than obtained at both 20, 10 m3/fed. in comparison with those of control plants in both seasons, respectively. Also, it is evident that the application of (FYM) at rates of 10, 20 and 30 m3/fed., interacted with combinations of both (phosphorein + microbein), (phosphorein + yeast) and (phosphorein + humic acid) improved significant increments in the all growth characters compared with control plants, and the highest one was realized with combination of (FYM) at rate 30 m3/fed. + phosphorein + humic acid.
These findings clearly indicate that phosphorein, humic acid and 30 m3/fed. of (FYM) could be used as traditional fertilizers and may consequently minimized pollution of agricultural environments.
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