Eman M. Abd El-Razik and Amal M. Abd El-Kream( 2021). Mitigate saline stress by using untraditional materials and its effect on vegetative growth of garlic plants grown in sandy soilsEgypt. J. of Appl. Sci., 36 (3) 2021 78-94
Abstract: The experiment was conducted on pots filled with sandy soil affected by salts, the soil concentration of salts was 8.15 dSm-1 and the EC of irrigation water was 7.02 dSm-1. The experiment was conducted in the Agricultural Research Center in Giza, Egypt. Garlic (Allium sativum L., var. sids 41) was grown during winter seasons of 2019 and 2020. The untraditional materials as pomegranate peels, diatoms powder, banana peels and orange peels were grinded with a kitchen mill and investigated by Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM). Thirteen treatments from pomegranate peels, diatoms powder, banana peels and orange peels at nanoscale in three doses of 0.15, 0.3 and 0.6(g) and control treatment were applied. The research was amid to study the effect of some untraditional materials at the nanoscale to mitigate salt stress on garlic plants at vegetative growth stage grown in sandy soils. The data showed that addition of diatoms nanopowder with dose of 0.6(g pot -1) was the superior treatment for mitigating salt stress on garlic plants at vegetative growth stage under salt stress grown in sandy soils compared to other materials at different doses used and control treatment.
Keywords: (untraditional nanomaterials, garlic plants, vegetative growth, salt stress , sandy soils.)
