Investigation of Some Quantitative and Qualitative Characters of Medicinal Pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo L.) under Different Organic Substrates and Different Levels of Phosphorus Fertilization

Reyhaneh Pajooheshgar; Majid Azizi; Hossein Nemati  and Reza Khorasani

doi:10.17485/ijst/2015/v8iS3/60906

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Investigation of Some Quantitative and Qualitative Characters of Medicinal Pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo L.) under Different Organic Substrates and Different Levels of Phosphorus Fertilization

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Indian Journal of Science and Technology

DOI: 10.17485/ijst/2015/v8iS3/60906

Year: 2015, Volume: 8, Issue: Supplementary 3, Pages: 1-6

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Investigation of Some Quantitative and Qualitative Characters of Medicinal Pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo L.) under Different Organic Substrates and Different Levels of Phosphorus Fertilization

Reyhaneh Pajooheshgar¹ , Majid Azizi^2* , Hossein Nemati² and Reza Khorasani³

¹Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, International Campus, Mashhad, Iran
² Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Horticulture, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran; [email protected]
³ Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Horticulture, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

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Abstract

Understanding the interactions and relationships between fertilizer and minerals help to have optimum fertilization practicewiththelowestcosts. Inasplitplot fieldexperiment,westudiedtheeffectofsomeorganicsubstrate(control (soil),spentmushroomcompost(SMC),cowmanureandvermicompost) anddifferentlevelsofphosphorus(at0,75,100 and125kgh–1 )toinvestigatethebesttreatmentforsomecharactersofmedicinalpumpkin(Cucurbita pepoL.)suchas: leafandbranchnumber,plantheight,fruitnumber,fruitweight,seednumber,oilpercentage,zincandphosphoruscontent of seeds. Results showed that vermicompost is the best organic substrate for improving of the most characters. For phosphorusapplicationalone,100(kg.h–1 )wasthebesttreatmentsformostcharactersandincombinedapplicationoforganic substrateandphosphorus,vermicompostwith100(kg.ha–1 )wasthebesttreatment toincreasethemorphologicaland yield factors.
Keywords: Pumpkin(Cucurbita pepo