{"title":"Environmental Factors that Influence the Spatial Distribution of Extreme Halophytes on Egypt's Northwestern Mediterranean Coast","authors":"Nourhan Galal, Laila Bidak, Sania Kamal, S. Toto","doi":"10.21608/jpp.2023.233179.1268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jpp.2023.233179.1268","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change exerts a significant impact on coastal ecosystems, primarily through the rising sea levels, which pose a global threat to salt marshes, essential habitats for valuable halophytic plant species. Concurrently, unchecked human activities also pose a considerable risk to halophytes. Consequently, comprehending the factors that shape plant community diversity and distribution becomes pivotal for biodiversity conservation and the restoration of degraded vegetation. To address this, we selected 54 stands across the northwestern Mediterranean coast of Egypt, encompassing a salinity gradient, mirroring the global distribution of temperate salt marshes. Soil samples were collected across these 54 locations for comprehensive soil parameter assessments. The studied region was inhabited by 165 species, spread throughout 117 genera and 36 families. The most abundant families in terms of species are the Asteraceae, Poaceae, Fabaceae, and Amaranthaceae. Therophytes were the most represented life form. A multivariate analysis was applied to identify the environmental elements that might have an impact on species distribution. After using TWINSPAN and DCA as classification and ordination approaches, four vegetation groups emerged. Salinity condition influences the distribution of halophytic species, community structure, and wild community diversity. With the escalating human intervention in agricultural operations and the intensification of land usage, the seaward area has been completely degraded except for small patches and there is no possibility of rehabilitation. As a result, steps should be taken to conserve salt marsh habitats against unrestricted land use.","PeriodicalId":16839,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Plant Production","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135690507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimizing Potato Yield and Quality Via Organic and Mineral Potassium Sources","authors":"H. EL-Metwally,, A. Badour, m. El-Sherpiny","doi":"10.21608/jpp.2023.226106.1258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jpp.2023.226106.1258","url":null,"abstract":"It is known that potassium plays a pivotal role as a sizing agent for potato tubers. So, this research was conducted to evaluate the impact of different treatments on potato, aiming for improved potassium fertilization practices and higher returns. The study focused on the evaluation of the application of banana residues compost to soil as the main factor (applied or not), potassium humate via fertigation as the sub-main factor (applied or not), and the foliar application of mineral potassium sources as the sub-sub-main factor (including potassium nitrate, potassium citrate, potassium silicate, and a control group) on the growth performance and yield quality of potato plants during the successive seasons (2021/22 and 2022/23). The potato plants cultivated in soil treated with banana residues compost demonstrated enhanced growth performance, including higher fresh and dry weights, as well as superior quantitative and qualitative yield compared to plants grown on untreated soil. Moreover, the application of potassium humate further optimized the yield and quality of potato compared to plants grown without potassium humate. Regarding the foliar application of diverse potassium sources, the most effective treatment was found to be potassium nitrate, followed by potassium citrate then potassium silicate, with the control group showing the least favorable results. Overall, the combination of applying banana residues compost along with potassium humate treatment and the subsequent spraying of potassium nitrate proved to be the most successful intervention, significantly improving the growth performance and both quantitative and qualitative yield of potato plants compared to other interventions.","PeriodicalId":16839,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Plant Production","volume":"208 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135310142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eman El-Sabagh, Eman Abou El-Ghait, Y. Mohamed, Safaa Mohamed
{"title":"Influence of planting Date and Different Growing Media on Rooting of Cutting of Euphorbia milii L. Plant","authors":"Eman El-Sabagh, Eman Abou El-Ghait, Y. Mohamed, Safaa Mohamed","doi":"10.21608/jpp.2023.228249.1263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jpp.2023.228249.1263","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16839,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Plant Production","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134997329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eman El-Sabagh, Eman Abou El-Ghait, Y. Mohamed, Safaa Mohamed
{"title":"Influence of Planting Date and Growth Stimulants on Growth and Chemical Compositions of Euphorbia milii Plant","authors":"Eman El-Sabagh, Eman Abou El-Ghait, Y. Mohamed, Safaa Mohamed","doi":"10.21608/jpp.2023.229445.1264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jpp.2023.229445.1264","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16839,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Plant Production","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134997326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of Chemical and Physical Mutagens on Vegetative Growth and Flowering of Hibiscus Rosa-sinensis L Plant","authors":"Y. Elgazzar, Effat Agina, Y. Ghatas, S. Moustafa","doi":"10.21608/jpp.2023.218376.1249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jpp.2023.218376.1249","url":null,"abstract":"The experiment was conducted at the Experimental Farm of Horti. Depar., of Faculty of Agric., Moshtohor, Banha Univ, Egypt in two seasons 2020/2021 or 2021/2022 to evaluate the effect of mutagens (gamma at 100, 200, 300 Gy) and chemical mutagens (EMS) is a mutagenic, carcinogeni with formula C3H8SO3,(DEMS) formula (CH3O)2SO. at 0.1%, 0.2% and 0.3%. Hibiscus plant is considered one of the very important ornamental plants, The effect of mutagens on the growth and flowering of Hibiscus was studied, The ISSR-PCR technique was also used to determine the genetic variation among the hibiscus plants. Hibiscus were irradiated with four different levels of gamma radiation (control, 100, 200, 300 Gy) or EMS and DEMS) at a concentration of (0.00, 0.1%, 0.2% and 0.3%) However, the irradiation results showed that gamma rays at 100Gy treatment significantly increased plant height and number of leaves in the two seasons. The best treatments was achieved with Gy at 100 Gray, followed by Ethyle methane sulphonate at 0.1% gamma rays at 200 Gray treatments gave the next results, but gamma rays at 300 Gray caused a significant decrease in plant height in both seasons, and the optimal dose of radiation per plant was calculated between treatments because of the determination obtained in dry weight, and this factor used to determine is generally high. Gamma ray doses had adverse effects on the growth of hibiscus, and this study showed that high doses of irradiation (200 to 300 Gy) of hibiscus inhibited their growth and significantly decreased them.","PeriodicalId":16839,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Plant Production","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87196589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of some Treatments Stimulating Growth and Yield on Pea Plants Grown under High Temperature Conditions","authors":"Hoda Ahmed, E. E. I. Taha","doi":"10.21608/jpp.2023.220548.1250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jpp.2023.220548.1250","url":null,"abstract":"To investigate the impact of some stimulants on the pea plants grown under high-temperature conditions, a field experiment was conducted to assess the effects of vitamin C, melatonin, potassium citrate, and cytokinin, in addition to a control group that did not receive any spray, on pea cultivars including A (master b), B (sweet 1), and C (sweet 2), which were assigned to the main plots. While, the stimulants were arranged in the sub-main plots. The experiment measured various growth and yield parameters, including plant height, leaf area, fresh and dry weights, chlorophyll content, carotene content, days required for fruit setting, No. of pods, pod length, pod yield and protein content. The results showed that the cultivar \"C\" performed the best across all studied treatments, except for days required for fruit setting. Following \"C\" cultivar, the performance of cultivar \"B\" was observed to be superior, while cultivar \"A\" ranked third in terms of growth and yield characteristics. In terms of fruit setting, cultivars \"A\" and \"B\" exhibited early fruit setting, whereas cultivar \"C\" experienced a delay in fruit set. Regarding the stimulants, spraying cytokinin yielded the highest values for all the studied characteristics. Potassium citrate treatment ranked second in terms of performance, followed by melatonin then vitamin C treatments, respectively, while the control group showed the lowest values. Overall, the application of cytokinin had the most positive impact on the growth and yield of pea plants under high-temperature conditions. Other studied stimulants also had positive effects, although to a lesser extent","PeriodicalId":16839,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Plant Production","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135762068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Heba Elsherbiny, Neama El-Kholly, Mariam Wissa, H. Hamad, O. Elbadawy
{"title":"Genetic Variability, Multivariate and Association Analysis for Agronomic Traits in Different Rice Genotypes","authors":"Heba Elsherbiny, Neama El-Kholly, Mariam Wissa, H. Hamad, O. Elbadawy","doi":"10.21608/jpp.2023.220906.1253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jpp.2023.220906.1253","url":null,"abstract":"The current study aimed to evaluate the presence of variability for desired traits and to estimate genetic parameters (phenotypic and genotypic coefficients of variation, broad sense heritability), correlations and principal component analysis for such traits. The study was conducted in 2020 and 2021 at the Rice Research Department Farm of the Sakha Research Station of the Agricultural Research Centre, Egypt. In a randomized complete block design with three replications, fifteen rice genotypes were evaluated for yield and yield components, including days to flowering, plant height, number of panicles per plant, panicle length, total spikelets per panicle, panicle density index, grain length, width, thickness, shape and 1000 grain weight and grain yield per plant. The analysis of variance showed significant differences between the genotypes for all the studied traits. The genotypes Egyptian Yasmine, IRRI 154, Sakha 101, Giza 178, IR 65600-77-4-2-1, and IRRI 147 were found to have the highest mean values for grain yield/plant (53.47, 55.07, 52.32, 52.07, 50.02, and 46.60, respectively). The widest grains, measuring 3.31 to 3.63 mm, were found in the genotypes WAB-96-1-1, IR 65600-77-4-2-1, Sakha 105, GZ 10101-5-1-1-1, and IRRI 147. IR 65600-77-4-2-1 recorded the thickest grain (2.37 mm). All the results obtained will be considedrd in the next hybridization programs to get the most preferred traits in rice plants.","PeriodicalId":16839,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Plant Production","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134983119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of Planting Distances and Natural Plant Extracts on Vegetative Growth, Chemical Constituents and Oil Productivity on Thyme Plant","authors":"Mai Refaay, Y. Mohamed, A. Dewidar, Safaa Mohamed","doi":"10.21608/jpp.2023.220857.1252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jpp.2023.220857.1252","url":null,"abstract":"This study was carried during the two successive seasons 2017 and 2018, at the Experimental Farm of Hortic. Dep., Faculty of Agric., Benha University, Egypt to study the effects of different planting distances (20*20 and 30*30cm) with some natural extracts (licorice and aloe extracts) and their interactions on thyme plant. the results showed that the combined treatment between planting distances (20*20) cm, and F5 (Aloe 50%) gained the superiority, followed by descending order by the combination treatment of planting distances (20*20cm) and F3 (Licorice 50%) in two cuts and the two seasons. Furthermore, the combination between planting distances and fertilizations treatments enhanced the chemical compositions particularly planting distance at ( 30*30cm), and F3 (Licorice 50%) during the in general .However, essential oil percentage of thyme plant was increased by using the combined treatment of planting distances at (30*30 cm) and F5 (Aloe extract at 50%). GLC analysis of of thyme included 12 compounds were identified, the main component was β-cymene. Consequently, it is preferable to use the planting distance ( 30*30cm), and F5 (Aloe extract at 50%), for improving all studied traits of thyme plant.","PeriodicalId":16839,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Plant Production","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134983170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of Some Soil Amendments on Fruit and Seed Yield of Sweet Pepper under Water Stress Conditions: 2-Yield and Quality Parameters","authors":"E. Tartoura, A. Moghazy, K. M. A. R. Eldeweni","doi":"10.21608/jpp.2023.196334.1220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jpp.2023.196334.1220","url":null,"abstract":"A field experiment aimed to study the response of deficit irrigation water under both traditional and drip irrigation systems combined with soil amendments, on yield and quality. The experiment tested 30 treatments arranged in strip split plot design. The horizontal plots were allocated to the irrigation systems (surface and drip irrigation), whereas the vertical plots were devoted to the irrigation regimes of 40, 60 and 80% of the irrigation water requirement (IWR), while the sub plots were included five soil amendments (without, 250, 500 kg.fed potassium silicate ore and 35, 70kg.fed potassium humate). The results showed that the drip irrigation system produced significantly higher values of No. of flowers/plant, fruit setting %, early yield, total fruit yield and total seed yield per fed. compared to surface irrigation system. Results indicated that significantly highest values were recorded from the irrigation regime at 80% following irrigation at 60 % of the irrigation water requirement (IWR). Results also showed that, the higher values were obtained from soil amendments at 70 kg/fed from potassium humate following with 500 kg/fed from potassium silicate. In addition, the results showed that a higher average for all the above parameters were obtained from soil amendments at 70 kg/fed from potassium humate following with 500 kg/fed from potassium silicate under drip irrigation system at 80% (6922 m/fed.) following irrigation at 60% of IWR (5192 m/fed.). Finally, we recommend this treatment because it saves water irrigation (4091and 5821 m/fed. respectively) and obtains the best yield with improved quality of pepper fruits.","PeriodicalId":16839,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Plant Production","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85139273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Response of Apple Trees Performance to Moringa Extract, Humic Acid, and Liquid Organic Fertilizers (Vit-Org)","authors":"Faten S. R. Alghanim, M. Al-Hadethi, A. Yaviç","doi":"10.21608/jpp.2023.213580.1244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21608/jpp.2023.213580.1244","url":null,"abstract":"To explore the potential synergistic effects of combining bio-stimulants and organic fertilizers on the growth performance of five-year-old Ibrahimi apple trees grafted on Quince rootstock, a research study was conducted aiming to examine the effects of moringa leaf extract applied through the foliar application, along with liquid organic fertilizer applied to the soil, and soil addition of humic acid at different doses. The moringa leaf extract was applied at doses of 0.0, 10.0, and 20.0 g/L, while the liquid organic fertilizer was applied at doses of 0.0 and 10.0 ml/tree. Additionally, humic acid was applied to the soil at doses of 0.0, 5.0, and 10.0 g/tree. The primary focus of this research was to assess the combined impact of these treatments on the growth performance of the Ibrahimi apple cultivar trees. The growth performance of the apple trees was evaluated using various parameters, including leaf area, leaf chlorophyll contents, leaf dry weight, and shoot length. The results indicated that increasing the rate of moringa leaf extract led to an increase in these parameters, while the control treatment showing the lowest values. Similarly, the application of liquid organic fertilizer resulted in increased values for all the studied parameters. Additionally, as the rate of humic acid increased, the values of the parameters also increased, while the control treatment exhibited the lowest values. Moreover, the interactions between the study factors, both twice and triple had a significant impact on all the studied aspects of vegetative growth.","PeriodicalId":16839,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Plant Production","volume":"2016 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74025813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}