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Response of some sugar beet varieties to potassic fertilizers under salinity conditions

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Towards the rational use of high salinity tolerant plants

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Abstract

Three sugar beet varieties were exposed to different levels of salinity in pot experiments at the Experimental Farm, Mansoura University, during two growing seasons. An imitation of natural salinity prevailing in Egyptian saline soils was performed by using a salty mixture of 50.2% NaCI, 6.6% NaSO4, 30.4% CaSO, and 12.8% MgCl2. The salty mixture was applied in the pots before sowing to reach 0.2, 0.3, 0.4 and 0.5% salinity. The following results were recorded:

  1. (a)

    The increase of salinity percentages led to significant decreases in germination percentage, root length, root width, number of leaves/plant, weight of leaves/plant and blade leaf area, while sucrose percentage and purity percentage were increased.

  2. (b)

    The three cultivars showed significant differences in the characteristics studied in favour of Trible in most cases except sucrose percentage which was nearly the same in the three varieties.

  3. (c)

    Potassium fertilization exerted significant increases in all characteristics studied compared to the control except purity percentages which showed opposite trend during the two seasons.

  4. (d)

    The maximum root weight was produced by growing Trible variety at 0.2% salinity and adding potassium fertilization

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Kandil, A.A. (1993). Response of some sugar beet varieties to potassic fertilizers under salinity conditions. In: Lieth, H., Al Masoom, A.A. (eds) Towards the rational use of high salinity tolerant plants. Tasks for vegetation science, vol 28. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1860-6_25

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