Effect of foliar nutrition and paclobutrazol on sugar beet yield and quality (Beta vulgaris l.) [electronic resource] : I.yield components and juice quality.

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Two field experiments of sugar beet were carried out at Sakha Agricultural Research Station (Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate) in the two growing seasons of 1997/1998 and 1998/19991 to investigate the effect of Yeast extract preparation1 the growth retartends paclobutrazol and the two nutrient elements K and Mg, applied at different stages of growth on top root, sugar yields and juice quality of sugar beet plants. The experiments were laid out in split plot design with three replications. Application dates were allocated in the main plots and foliar application of treatments were distributed randomly in the sub plots. Delaying the foliar application from 45 to 75 and 105 days from planting with studied treatments caused significant increases in top, root, biological and sugar yields of sugar beet. The higher concentration of nutrients and biological activators produced the highest values of yield compared with the lower levels. There was a significant interaction between time of foliar applications and the foliar nutrients treatments. Delaying foliar application to 105 days from sowing significantly increased juice quality and produced the highest values of TSS% (25.64)1 sucrose (17.09) and purity (66.59) and the lowest values were 25.321 16.79 and 66.23 % for the same juice quality traits, respectively when foliar spray was carried out after 45 days from sowing. The higher levels of YE, PP333, K and Mg gave the highest values of TSS % 27.16, sucrose 18.81 % and purity 69.29%.

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