Leila Mohammadi; Saeed Rizi; Abdorrahman Mohammadkhani; Rahim Barzegar
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To evaluate the effect of slow release fertilizer and humic acid on quality of New Guinea Impatiens (Impatiens hawkeri), an experiment established in complete random design with 15 treatments and three replications. Treatments were slow release fertilizer (12-11-18-2.7MgO-8S) in five levels (0, 1.5, ...
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To evaluate the effect of slow release fertilizer and humic acid on quality of New Guinea Impatiens (Impatiens hawkeri), an experiment established in complete random design with 15 treatments and three replications. Treatments were slow release fertilizer (12-11-18-2.7MgO-8S) in five levels (0, 1.5, 3, 4.5 and 6 kg/m3) and humic acid in three levels (0, 2 and 4 kg/m3) that mixed with medium culture. The substrate medium was included 50 percecnt of peat moss, 40 percent of perlite and 10 percent of rice husk (v/v). Five months after seeding, results showed the most flower number (20 number) in 6 kg/m3 mixed with 2 kg/m3 of humic acid, and the most leaf number (122 number) in 3 kg/m3 of slow release fertilizer treatments. The slow release fertilizer treatment showed a positive significant effect in all traits. Also, humic acid had a positive significant effect on plant height, leaf and shoot number, leaf area, total chlorophyll, shoot fresh weight, flower diameter, flower life and flower number. Considering that, humic acid in 2-4 kg/m3 and slow release fertilizer in 3-4.5 kg/m3 could be recommended for New Guinea Impatiens cultivation.
Leila Mohammadi; Saeed Rizi; Rahim Barzegar
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To evaluate the effect of arbuscular mycorrhiza (Glomus mosseae) under salt stress on physiological and some nutrient absorption in New Guinea Impatiens (Impatiens hawkeri), an experiment established in complete random design with three replications (three pots for each replication) in greenhouse in ...
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To evaluate the effect of arbuscular mycorrhiza (Glomus mosseae) under salt stress on physiological and some nutrient absorption in New Guinea Impatiens (Impatiens hawkeri), an experiment established in complete random design with three replications (three pots for each replication) in greenhouse in Shahrekord University in 2014. Treatments were inoculation of substrate with three levels of arbuscular mycorrhiza (0, 8 and 16 percent, v/v) and sodium chloride (0, 15 and 30 Mm). The substrate medium was included 50 percecnt of peat moss, 40 percent of perlite and 10 percent of rice husk (v/v). The mycorrhizal inoculation done with transplanting and salt stress treatment was applied with irrigation water after stablishment of transplants. Some traits such as nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, sodium and proline content, dry and fresh root weight and root colonization percentage were evaluated. The results showed that 16 percent of mycorrhiza treatment had significant effect on nitrogen (2.31 percent) and phosphorous (0.339 percent) and it’s interaction with 30 Mm of salt stress had significant effect on proline content (0.754 micromol/gfw) and root colonization (35 percent) percentage. Based on this research the difference between mycorrhiza treated plants and other treatments was significant and it seems that the application of mycorrhiza in medium, can increase salt tolerance in New Guinea Impatiens by effect on some physiological traits.