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Foliar potassium nitrate induced salt tolerance in bottle gourd - SQM Specialty Plant Nutrition

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Foliar potassium nitrate induced salt tolerance in bottle gourd

Salinity limits crop growth and development. Therefore a moderately salt tolerant crop Lagenaria siceraria (bottle gourd) was used to study the effect of foliar sprays on leaf area and fruit weight per plant. A foliar spray of 250 ppm KNO3 increased the leaf area under non saline conditions by 16% and under 0,2% sea-salt dilution by 12% compared to the control (Table 1).

The plants sprayed with 250 ppm KNO3 under saline conditions of 0,2% sea-salt dilution not only inhibited toxic effects of salt on fruit formation, but also increased the fruit weight per plant by 77%, whereas a foliar spray of 500 ppm KNOincreased the fruit weight per plant by 18% (Figure 1).

Table 1. The effect of a 250 ppm KNOfoliar spray on the total leaf area (cm2) per plant compared to non-spray and non-saline conditions.


Figure 1. Effect of foliar spray of KNO3 on fruit weight per plant (g) of Lagenaria Siceraria grown under various levels of saline water irrigation.

 

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Ahmad, R. and R. Jabeen, 2005. Foliar spray of mineral elements antagonistic to sodium-a technique to induce salt tolerance in plants growing under saline conditions. Pakistan Journal of Botany, 37(4): 913-920.