Hossam El Din Khalasi⁽¹⁾,  Nizar Mualla⁽¹⁾  and Ghadeer Al Houshi ^{(1) *}

 (1). Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agriculture, Tishreen University Lattakia, Syria.

(*Corresponding author: Eng. Ghadeer Al Houshi, Email: ghadeerrafikalhoushi@gmail.com)

Received:12/04/2023                     Accepted:9/08/2023

Abstract: 

The study was conducted in the village of Jiboul in the countryside of Jableh city during the agricultural season 2021/2022, to study the effect of plant density on some growth characteristics of Rocket, a “local” variety, and it included two densities: 500,000 plants/ha (one plant in the hole), 1,000,000 plants/ha. (Two plants in the hole). The experiment was designed with a randomized complete block design with three replications, and the averages were compared using the Least Significant Difference (L.S.D) test at the 5% level of significance. The results showed that there was a significant effect of the plant density in all the studied traits. The high density achieved the highest plant height (82.67 cm), while the low density was superior in terms of the number of branches per plant (4.33 branches), the number of leaves per plant (16.66 leaves), the leaf area (49.98 cm²), the wet weight (53.55 g) and the dry weight of the plant (7.43 g).

Keywords: Rocket, Eruca ,density, growth, dry weight.

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