Abstract
Currently, nanotechnology is widely used in agriculture and horticulture. Nanofertilizers are essential for encouraging vegetative growth and flowering, as well as enhancing productivity and fruit quality. These nanoparticles are viewed as growth promoters as well. The current study was therefore carried out during the two successive seasons of 2021 and 2022 on 14-year-old trees grown in clay soil in a field experiment at the Pomology Department Research orchard, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Egypt. The effects of conventional vs. nano-micronutrients as foliar fertilizers on the fruit yield, quality, and mineral nutrition status of pomegranate trees were studied. The foliar application of all treatments on pomegranate trees remarkably increased yield and physical properties of fruits as well as improved the levels of total soluble solids percentage, anthocyanin pigment, flavonol, total phenols, antioxidant activity and nutrients status compared with the controls during the 2021 and 2022 seasons. The lowest fruit cracking percentages were obtained by the spraying of nano-micronutrients (4.33-5.70 %) compared with the other treatments and the control, which gave the highest percentages (10.45-11.43 %). The highest increments in yield, physical properties of fruits and levels of total soluble solids percentage, anthocyanin pigment, flavonol, total phenols, and antioxidant activity were noticed by the spraying of nano-micronutrients especially at 1000 and/or 1500 µg mL-1. It could be concluded that the use of nanofoliar fertilization in pomegranate cultivation may improve the yield, quality, and nutritional status of pomegranate fruits.
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Claim · model-written summary
Foliar application of all treatments increased yield and physical properties of pomegranate fruits compared with the controls.
- Taxon
- pomegranate
Punica granatume0 - Treatment
- foliar application of all treatmentse0
- Outcome
- yield and physical properties of fruitse0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- controlse0
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e0“The foliar application of all treatments on pomegranate trees remarkably increased yield and physical properties of fruits as well as improved the levels of total soluble solids percentage, anthocyanin pigment, flavonol, total phenols, antioxidant activity and nutrients status compared with the controls”
Claim · model-written summary
Foliar treatments improved total soluble solids percentage, anthocyanin pigment and flavonol of pomegranate fruits compared with the controls.
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatume0
- Treatment
- foliar application of all treatmentse0
- Outcome
- total soluble solids percentage, anthocyanin pigment, flavonole0
- Direction
- improvede0
- Comparator
- controlse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The foliar application of all treatments on pomegranate trees remarkably increased yield and physical properties of fruits as well as improved the levels of total soluble solids percentage, anthocyanin pigment, flavonol, total phenols, antioxidant activity and nutrients status compared with the controls”
Claim · model-written summary
Foliar treatments improved total phenols, antioxidant activity and nutrients status compared with the controls.
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatume0
- Treatment
- foliar application of all treatmentse0
- Outcome
- total phenols, antioxidant activity and nutrients statuse0
- Direction
- improvede0
- Comparator
- controlse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The foliar application of all treatments on pomegranate trees remarkably increased yield and physical properties of fruits as well as improved the levels of total soluble solids percentage, anthocyanin pigment, flavonol, total phenols, antioxidant activity and nutrients status compared with the controls”
Claim · model-written summary
Spraying nano-micronutrients gave the lowest fruit cracking percentages (4.33-5.70 %), compared with 10.45-11.43 % in the control.
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatumt0
- Treatment
- spraying of nano-micronutrientse0
- Outcome
- fruit cracking percentagese0
- Direction
- loweste0
- Value
- 4.33-5.70 %e0
- Qualifier
- 10.45-11.43 %e0
- Comparator
- the other treatments and the controle0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The lowest fruit cracking percentages were obtained by the spraying of nano-micronutrients (4.33-5.70 %) compared with the other treatments and the control, which gave the highest percentages (10.45-11.43 %)”
t0“pomegranate”
Claim · model-written summary
The highest increments in yield, fruit physical properties and quality and antioxidant measures came from spraying nano-micronutrients, especially at 1000 and/or 1500 ug/mL.
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatumt0
- Treatment
- spraying of nano-micronutrients especially at 1000 and/or 1500 µg mL-1e0
- Outcome
- increments in yield, physical properties of fruits and levels of total soluble solids percentage, anthocyanin pigment, flavonol, total phenols, and antioxidant activitye0
- Direction
- higheste0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The highest increments in yield, physical properties of fruits and levels of total soluble solids percentage, anthocyanin pigment, flavonol, total phenols, and antioxidant activity were noticed by the spraying of nano-micronutrients especially at 1000 and/or 1500 µg mL-1”
t0“pomegranate”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors conclude that nanofoliar fertilization in pomegranate cultivation may improve yield, quality and nutritional status of fruits.
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatume0
- Outcome
- yield, quality, and nutritional status of pomegranate fruitse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the use of nanofoliar fertilization in pomegranate cultivation may improve the yield, quality, and nutritional status of pomegranate fruits”
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