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Growth responses of scots pine seedlings grown in peat-based media amended with natural zeolite    
Yazarlar
Sezgin Ayan
Gazi Üniversitesi, Turkey
A. Tufekcioglu
Kafkas Üniversitesi, Turkey
Özet
Zeolite has many good features that makes it very attractive for nursery use as a growing media over others. This study was designed to investigate influence of different growing media and their mixtures (with zeolite and without zeolite) on morphological characters of scots pine seedlings. Twenty-one treatments of varying amounts of peat, fine pumice, coarse pumice, river sand, perlite and river sand were established and were sown with scots pine seeds. At the end of first growing period, 30 seedlings from each treatment were harvested and measured for height (SH), root collar diameter (RCD), root dry weight (RDW), stem dry weight (SDW) and total dry weight (TSDW). These parameters varied significantly among treatments and were lower in zeolite added media. SH negatively correlated with Na and K content and C/N ratio of growing media but positively correlated with Mn content of media. SDW and TSDW had positive correlation with N, Fe, Mn, total porosity and loss of ignition, and had negative correlation with pH, Ca, Na and K content. © Triveni Enterprises.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Growing media | Morphological character | Scots pine | Seedling | Zeolite
Makale Türü Özgün Makale
Makale Alt Türü SCOPUS dergilerinde yayımlanan tam makale
Dergi Adı Journal of Environmental Biology
Dergi ISSN 0254-8704
Makale Dili İngilizce
Basım Tarihi 01-2006
Cilt No 27
Sayı 1
Sayfalar 27 / 34
BM Sürdürülebilir Kalkınma Amaçları
Atıf Sayıları
WoS 13
SCOPUS 8

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