Claim · model-written summary
Spraying 5.0% Kaolin on 1 June gave the most favorable fruiting and yield responses of Jojoba shrubs.
- Taxon
- Jojoba
Simmondsia chinensise0 - Treatment
- shrubs sprayed with 5.0% Kaolin on 1st of Junee2
- Outcome
- fruiting aspects and yielde2
- Direction
- most favorablee2
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Verbatim
e0“This study was carried out during two consecutive seasons (2022 and 2023) on eight-year-old Jojoba shrubs grown in sandy soil under a drip irrigation system at a private farm in El-Ismailia Governorate, Egypt”
e2“Concerning fruiting aspects and yield, the most favorable responses were obtained from shrubs sprayed with 5.0% Kaolin on 1st of June”
Title
Hala, N.M. Nassar; M.A. Omran,; A.A. Hammad, Horticulture Research Journal 2025. doi:10.21608/hrj.2025.488105
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Spraying Kaolin at 5.0% on 1 May significantly improved vegetative growth of Jojoba shrubs compared with untreated shrubs.
- Intervention effect Spraying 5.0% Kaolin gave the heaviest seed weight of Jojoba shrubs, significantly associated with the treatment.
- Intervention effect Spraying 5.0% Kaolin gave the greatest seed volume of Jojoba shrubs, significantly associated with the treatment.
- Intervention effect Spraying 5.0% Kaolin gave the highest seed length and width of Jojoba shrubs, significantly associated with the treatment.
- Intervention effect Shrubs treated with 5.0% Kaolin had the highest economic return.
- Intervention effect All seed physical traits of Jojoba were significantly enhanced when spraying was done on 1 June rather than the first date.
- Intervention effect Chlorophyll a, b and carotenoids had the highest values in Jojoba shrubs treated with 5.0% Kaolin on 1 May.
- Intervention effect Total carbohydrates and seed oil content of Jojoba had the highest values in shrubs treated with 5.0% Kaolin on 1 May.
- Intervention effect Chlorophyll a, b and carotenoids increased further with 7.5% Kaolin in Jojoba shrubs.
- Intervention effect The interaction between Kaolin concentration and spray date reflected specific and combined effects on most studied traits of Jojoba.