Plant biomass and fruit yield induction by Ti(IV) in P-stressed pepper crops

Autor: A. Moreno, J. L. Fuentes, C. F. Alcaraz, J. L. Giménez, J. L. Lopez-Moreno
Rok vydání: 1996
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Zdroj: Fertilizer Research. 43:131-136
ISSN: 1573-0867
0167-1731
DOI: 10.1007/bf00747692
Popis: To study the titanium effect on P nutrition, a greenhouse experiment withCapsicum annuum L., cv. Bunejo plants growing under differential P fertilization was conducted. All the plants were grown under identical conditions and they only differred in the P fertilization and in Ti supply. Plant biomass production of the Ti-untreated plants was affected by the diminution of the P-feed, but the plants growing under the lowest P supply did not showed any deficiency symptom during the crop cycle. All the Ti-treated plots showed a significative increase of the plant biomass against their corresponding untreated references. The biomass enhancement was mainly caused by the increase of the fruit yield with an absolute enhancement of 62% in the plants growing under the lowest P feed, and of 45% in the plants with a complete P support.
Databáze: OpenAIRE