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Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences

Year: 2009 | Volume: 12 | Issue: 6 | Page No.: 492-497
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2009.492.497
Investigation of Some Effective Factors on Yield Traits of Pepino (Solanum muricatum) as a New Vegetable in Iran
S.H. Nemati, Z. Karimian, A. Tehranifar, N.V. Mashhadian and A. Lakzian

Abstract: To find out the effects of media culture and foliar fertilization on some yield traits including the number of fruits per bush, mean weight of fruit, yield of per bush, long of fruits and diameter of fruits 9 months completely randomized factorial experiment (3x5) with four replications was conducted. Media culture treatments include 5 levels namely soil; mixture of soil and vermy compost; mixture of soil and sand; mixture of soil and peat moss and mixture of soil, sand and peat moss. Foliar fertilization treatments include 3 levels namely applying once a week, once a 3 week and no fertilization (control). The results showed that the media culture treatments on the whole of traits and foliar fertilization also on the whole of traits except yield of per bush had a significant difference (p<0.01). In the foliar fertilization except yield per bush the once a 3 week fertilization caused highest increase than other treatments and in the media culture treatments, the mixture of soil and peat moss showed highest increase than other treatments.

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S.H. Nemati, Z. Karimian, A. Tehranifar, N.V. Mashhadian and A. Lakzian, 2009. Investigation of Some Effective Factors on Yield Traits of Pepino (Solanum muricatum) as a New Vegetable in Iran. Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, 12: 492-497.

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