Magnetic Treatment Of Salted Irrigation Water And Seeds: Its Effects On Vegetable Crop Yield And Nutrition Value Of Spinach (Spinacia Oleracea L)
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Pot experiment was conducted in Qalin Center, Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate, Egypt under the natural conditions of greenhouse during the two growing winter seasons of 2020/21 and 2021/22. The experiment aims to evaluate the effect of two magneto-priming seed treatments (Un-magnetized seeds (U-MS) and magnetized seeds (MS), two magnetized water (Un-magnetized water (U-MW) and magnetized water (MW) under two levels of irrigation water salinity stresses (2500 and 5000 ppm) on seedling emergence, vegetative growth and productivity of spinach plants. The eight treatments laid out in completely randomized design (CRD) with three replications. Results show that sowing magnetized spinach seeds and irrigation pots with magnetized saline water (2500 or 5000 ppm) significantly out-performed sowing un-magnetized spinach seeds and irrigated with un-magnetized water for all tested vegetative growth parameters at the age of 15, 30, 45, and 55 days. Regarding magnetized seed treatment, the magnetized seed treatments significantly surpassed the untreated seed in all recorded leaves growth parameters (i.e., leaves numbers plant-1, leave length (cm), leave width (cm) and Leave Area (LA; cm2)), plant growth parameters (i.e., plant height (cm), plant fresh and dry weight in gram), root growth parameters (root length and width (cm), root fresh and dry weight in gram) and total chlorophyl (spam) at the age of 15, 30, 45, and 55 days. The percent of improvement, ranged from 2.95 to 20.92% in leaves growth parameters, 8.80-20.45% in plant growth, 13.21-17.18% in root growth and 4.40-4.82% in total chlorophyl in leaves. Similar positive effects were recorded under magnetized water compared to untreated water treatments. Where the positive effects, ranged from 3.17 to 39.96% in leaves growth parameters, 3.88-24.81% in plant growth, 27.77-66.01% in root growth and 1.95-6.48% in total chlorophyl in leaves at the age of 15, 30, 45, and 55 days. As well as both factors (magnetized seed or water) caused positive effects on nutrition value of Spinach leaves. Results also show that, the magnetized treatments (seeds and water; T4) under 2500 or 5000 ppm salinity level significantly improved all the above-mentioned parameters compared to untreated treatment (T1) at 15, 30, 45 and 55 days. Under the conditions of this experiment, the results suggest applying irrigation with magnetized water and seeds can be recommended for reducing salinity stress which reflected in improvement productivity of spinach crops.
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