“…In practice, liquid compost extracts, fully enriched with HS, represent a costeffective tool to conduct foliar application (Zandonadi et al, 2013;Berbara and García, 2014). A wide range of plants have been tested with HS application under open-field conditions, such as garlic (Balmori et al, 2019), common beans (Kaya et al, 2005;Souri and Aslani, 2018), wheat (Zhang et al, 2016;Ahmad et al, 2018;Bezuglova et al, 2019), fenugreek (Ibrahim, 2019), tomato (Olivares et al, 2017), asparagus (Tejada and Gonzalez, 2003), maize (Canellas et al, 2015a) and citrus tree (Hameed et al, 2018). Foliar application is frequently reported in calcareous soil conditions where nutrient uptake, especially iron, is limited due to precipitation (Çelik et al, 2011;Souri and Aslani, 2018;Bezuglova et al, 2019).…”