Jenan Othman(1)*
(1). Horticulture Department, Faculty Of Agriculture, Tishreen University, Lattakia,Syria.
(*Corresponding author: Dr.Jenan Othma, E-mail : jenan.othman@gmail.com, 0955205560.)
Received: 10/04/2023 Accepted: 24/05/2023
Abstract:
A field experiment was carried out at Tishreen University garden nursery Lattakia, during the two successive spring seasons of 2019/2020 and 2020/2021, to study the effect of spraying of Zn, Cu and (Zn+Cu) on vegetative growth, yield and tubers quality of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) cv. Spunta. Randomized Complete Block Design with three replications. Results showed a positive effect of foliar application with Zn and Cu of all vegititave growth characters and production of potato plants. the highest values of the leaf area/plant , L.A.index, plant length , tuber number, medium tuber , dray matter, starch , v.c and arch were associated with spraying of Zn treatment in which the means expressed as 17169 cm2/plant, 5.94cm2/cm2, 71.6 cm,15.23 tuber per plant, 217g/plant, 20.51%, 14.29%, 15.89mg%, 6.54% consequently, while the highest values of big tuber production of plant 1635g/plant , average weight tuber 139.9 g were fond at tretmeant ( Zn+Cu) compared to control.
Keywords: Potato , Zn, Cu, Yield, Growth, Quality .
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