Response Chamomile Plants (Matricaria chamomilla L.) to Plant Distance and Spraying with Two Amino Acid Proline and Arginine and their Affectivity on Growth, Flower Yield and Volatile Oil Content and its Quality | ||
| Basrah Journal of Agricultural Sciences | ||
| Article 9, Volume 26, Issue 1, January 2013, Pages 34-45 PDF (0 K) | ||
| DOI: 10.33762/bagrs.2013.111172 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Essam H.A. Al-Doghachi; Winner M. Naemah | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This experiment was conducted during the Agricultural season of 2009-2010 in Agricultural Orchard at Abu–Al-Khassib District, Basrah Governerate .the objective was studying the effect of plant distance and spraying with two amino acids Proline and Arginine on growth and flower yield of Chamomile (Matricaria chamomilla L.) and its content of volatile oils. Experiment included 15 factorial treatments as sum of all combinations of two factors represented by three plant distances 20 , 30 and 40 cm and spraying with three concentrations 0, 50 and 100 mg/L .of two amino acid Proline and Arginine. Factorial Experiment in Randomized Complete Block Design with three replicates. The means were compared according to Least Significant Difference Test at probability of 0.05. Results could be summarized as follows:-Increases plant distance gave a significant increases plant height ,number of lateral branches/ plant ,number of total leaves / plant, leaf contents of carbohydrates, reduced the day's number for anthesis and increased the total flowers number/ plant, flowers fresh and dry yield/plant, volatile oil percentage and oil yield /plant,. respectively. while planting at 20 cm significantly increased the productivity /ha., oil density and specific gravity. While planting at 20 cm was significantly increased the flower and oil product /ha. Spraying with 100 mg /L Proline gave significant increase in plant height, number of lateral branches /plant, number of total leaves/plant, leaf contents of carbohydrates, total number of flower/plant fresh and dry flowers yield / plant, an thesis was earlier, volatile oil percentage, plant yield and productivity /ha., volatile oil specific weight and density compared with 100 mg /L Arginine only, while spraying with 100 mg /L Arginine was significantly increased the volatile oil specific gravity and density compared with other concentrations. The interaction between all studied factors had significantly affecting all parameters except refractive index of volatile oil. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Chamomile; Plant spacing; amino acids; Oil | ||
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