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American Journal of Plant Nutrition and Fertilization Technology

Year: 2012 | Volume: 2 | Issue: 2 | Page No.: 56-63
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El-Zanaty A.A. Abou El-Nour

Mahmoud M. Shaaban

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Response of Wheat Plants to Magnesium Sulphate Fertilization

El-Zanaty A.A. Abou El-Nour and Mahmoud M. Shaaban
Magnesium is an important fertilizer element in plant nutrition. Pot experiment was conducted at the greenhouse of the Micronutrients Project, Department of Fertilization Technology, National Research Centre, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt with wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) variety Sakha 93 grown on loamy sand soil to asses the plant response to magnesium sulphate as soil amendment and foliar fertilization. The experiment followed the Complete Randomized Block Design (CRBD) and contained eight treatments in four replicates. The obtained data showed that concentration and uptake of macro and micronutrients were increased with both soil and foliar fertilization. Superior treatments realized best concentrations; uptake, Mg/P, K/Mg and Ca/Mg ratios in the shoot tissues were 120 kg ha-1 MgSO4 as soil addition or 5 g L-1 in the spray solution as foliar fertilization. However, the treatments achieved highest dry biomass accumulation and plant height were 60 kg ha-1 MgSO4 or 5.0 g L-1 in the spray solution. Accordingly, wheat plants grown on the Egyptian and similar soils are recommended to be supplied with magnesium fertilizers in order to achieve good growth and higher production.
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