Manuscript Title:

MORPHOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL STUDY OF ALLIUM SATIVUM L. UNDER THE SELECTED MICRONUTRIENTS

Author:

SAJJAD ALI, MUHAMMAD ALI, KHAN NIAZ KHAN, AJMAL KHAN, FARHAN AHMAD, FAWAD ALI, WAJEEHA KHATTAK

DOI Number:

DOI:10.17605/OSF.IO/BWH6M

Published : 2022-12-23

About the author(s)

1. SAJJAD ALI - Department of Botany, Bacha Khan University Charsadda, Pakistan.
2. MUHAMMAD ALI - Institute of Biotechnology & Microbiology, Bacha Khan University Charsadda, Pakistan.
3. KHAN NIAZ KHAN - Department of Biology, Edwardes College Peshawar, Pakistan.
4. AJMAL KHAN - Institute of Biotechnology & Microbiology, Bacha Khan University Charsadda, Pakistan.
5. FARHAN AHMAD - Institute of Biotechnology & Microbiology, Bacha Khan University Charsadda, Pakistan.
6. FAWAD ALI - Institute of Biotechnology & Microbiology, Bacha Khan University Charsadda, Pakistan.
7. WAJEEHA KHATTAK - Department of Botany, Bacha Khan University Charsadda, Pakistan.

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Abstract

The current study was conducted to estimate the effect of Zinc and Boron on some morphological and biochemical aspect of Allium sativum L. (Gralic) plants samples (leaves). The effect of different Zinc and Boron concentrations of (0.5mg and 0.10mg) on garlic was investigated in this study. A pot experiment was performed on a randomized complete block design with 7 treatments in 21 blocks to investigate the effectiveness of the combined application of boron (0.5mg and 0.10mg) and Zinc (0.5mg and 0.10mg) as well as when each one was applied separately on vegetative, reproductive, physiochemical attributes in garlic at KP, Pakistan during 2020. The current experiment result indicates that the significant incensing of biochemical indexes was documented as chlorophyll a (0.730), chlorophyll b (1.2313), protein, proline, sugar, and carotenoid contents under the application of zinc in highest concentration as (9.2753>1.2313>0.7307) and their synergetic (13.003> 9.7667> and 6.6342) as compared to the control group. The increase in plant height, leaf size and weight by the application of zinc and boron was significant in all the variants and was higher by 18.60 cm>17.167cm>13.83cm2, fresh weight 7.400g>dry weight 6.266g and %germination as 84.33% and 84.00% respectively. The presence of a high amount of boron and zinc in the soil has a positive correlation and increases as well. The addition of zinc and boron to the garlic plant helped to increase its marketability. Nevertheless, there was an interaction between addition of micronutrient into soil addition (fertilizer) application, suggested that zinc and boron application alone and as well as synergetic had a profound influence on improving biochemical, morphological and as well as physiochemical parameters and increased the leaf size, weight (fresh and dry) and crop productivity in stress affected soils etc.


Keywords

Zinc, Boran, and Allium.