Growth, seed yield and guran yield of guar plants as affected by using cattle manure and some stimulant substances

Abstract

Field experiment was carried out at the Experimental Farm, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University, Assiut, Egypt during the two successive seasons of 2020 and 2021 to determine the impact of cattle manure as organic fertilizer at 0, 5, 10 and 15 m 3 /feddan (feddan = 4200 m 2 ) and foliar spray with some stimulant substances namely, moringa leaf extract at 0, 10, 20 g/L, yeast extract at 5, 10 g/L, garlic extract at 25, 50 ppm and seaweeds extract at 1, 2 ml/L, as well as their interactions on the growth, seed yield, guran percentage and guran yield of guar (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba L. Taub) plants. The obtained results showed that supplying plants with cattle manure at all levels resulted in a significant increase in growth traits (plant height, branch number/plant and herb dry weight/plant), seed yield/plant and per feddan, guran percentage and guran yield/plant and per feddan, except for the high level (15 m 3 /feddan) concerning plant height, in both seasons. The moderate level of cattle manure (10 m 3 /feddan) gave the most effective treatment in augmenting these parameters. Foliar spray with all examined stimulant substances at all concentrations led to a significant augment in all studied characteristics, except fo r yeast extract at 5 g/L regarding plant height and herb dry weight/plant, in the two seasons, and, also for branch number/plant, in the first season. The most effective treatments in increasing growth aspects were detected by spraying seaweeds extract at 2 ml/L followed by garlic extract at 50 ppm. Moreover, foliar spray with 2 ml/L seaweeds extract proved to be more effective in augmenting seed yield/plant and per feddan, guran percentage and guran yield/plant and per feddan than those given by other treatments and control. Clearly, the interaction effect between the two studied factors was statistically significant on all examined parameters. In this concern, the most combined treatments led to a significant increase in the tested aspects. Obviously, the most effective treatments were obtained when the addition of cattle manure at the moderate level (l0 m 3 /feddan) with seaweeds extract at 2 ml/L or with garlic extract at 50 ppm.

The role of organic fertilizer, chitosan, amino acids and seaweeds extract in enhancing the growth, yield and active ingredient of Cassia acutifolia Delile plants

“…Furthermore, organic fertilizers contain plant growth substances (IAA and GA3), macronutrients, necessary micronutrients and useful microorganisms (Natarajan, 2007;Sreenivasa et al, 2010). The efficiency of organic manures on augmenting the growth and yield of some legume plants was described by Sakr (2005), Ali et al (2014) and Ibrahim (2014) on senna (Cassia acutifolia) and Balakumbahan and Rajamani (2010) and Reddy and Kayina (2012) on senna (Cassia angustifolia), Patel et al (2010) and Nattudurai et al (2014) on cluster bean, and Shehata (2013), Abdou et al (2017), Abo El-Ezz (2019 and Abd El-Aal et al (2022) on guar. Also, organic fertilizers elevated total anthraquinone glycosides (Ali et al, 2014;Ibrahim, 2014) on senna (Cassia acutifolia).…”

“…It has widely used in enhancing the growth and development of several plants due to it contains plant growth hormones (auxins, gibberellins and cytokinins) and amino acids, vitamins and many nutritional elements like, N, P, K, Ca, Zn, Mn, Fe, B, Cu, Co and Mo (Begum et al, 2018;Stirk et al, 2004;Zamani et al, 2013). The unique role of seaweeds extract in augmenting the growth have to be discussed on guar (Abd El-Aal et al, 2022;Ramya et al, 2011;Thirumaran et al, 2009;Vijayanand et al, 2014) on fenugreek (Mahmoud, 2021;Mahmoud et al, 2021;Tarraf et al, 2015) on roselle, regarding the yield, Vijayanand et al (2014), Khater and Rania (2016) on guar, Rathore et al (2009) on soybean, Zodape et al (2010) on mung bean, Arthur et al (2003) and Jayasinghe et al (2016) on pepper, Zodape et al (2008) on okra, Mahmoud et al (2021) and Mahmoud (2021) on roselle, besides El-Leithy et al (2019) on Plectranthus amboinicus, concerning chemical constituents. Therefore, the objective of this investigation was to study the impact the of compost as organic manure, some stimulant substances (chitosan, amino acids and seaweeds extract) and their interactions on plant growth traits, yield and active ingredient of Alexandrian senna (Cassia acutifolia Delile) plants to figure out the most suitable treatment for improving these characteristics.…”