Abstract
THIS STUDY was conducted during two successive seasons 2013 …. and 2014 in private orchard at El-Behiera governorate (Latitude: 30.9833 Longitude: 30.2000), Egypt, to study the effect of spraying Moringa leaf extract, as a safe natural product compared to other substances on yield and fruit quality of 15-years-old Navel orange trees (Citrus sinensis) budded on Sour Orange (Citrus aurantium, L.Osbeck). Treatments used were; control (spraying with tap water), moringa leaf extract (MLE) at 3, gibberellic acid (GA3) at 30 ppm, chelated calcium (Ca) at 0.5%, and potassium nitrate (KNO3) at 1%. They were sprayed at full bloom stage, fruit set, at last week of June and at complete mature stage. The obtained results revealed that, treatments in general improved significantly Navel orange fruit set, where GA3 and MLE treatments gave the highest value. The highest yield was induced by MLE followed by other treatments. While, MLE treatment gave the lowest fruit peel firmness compared to other ones. In addition, MLE and GA3 treatments increased juice percentage and gave the highest TSS %. On the other hand, MLE treatment increase significantly juice acidity compared to the other treatments. Moreover, KNO3 treatment gave the highest values of nitrite and nitrate in fruit juice, while GA3 and MLE treatments were the lowest. KNO3 and MLE significantly increased leaf N and K contents. Whereas, treatments in this study had insignificant effect on leaf P% content in both seasons. Thus, overall, based on the current results, moringa leaves extract can be used at rates of 3% to stimulate the biomass production of Washington navel orange trees yield, enhance leaf mineral content and some physical and chemical characteristics.
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Claim · model-written summary
Spray treatments in general significantly improved navel orange fruit set compared with control spraying with tap water.
- Taxon
- Navel Orange Trees
Citrus sinensist0 - Treatment
- treatmentse1
- Outcome
- fruit sete1
- Direction
- improvede1
- Comparator
- control (spraying with tap water)e2
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Verbatim
t0“Navel Orange Trees”
e1“treatments in general improved significantly Navel orange fruit set”
e2“control (spraying with tap water)”
Claim · model-written summary
GA3 and Moringa leaf extract treatments gave the highest navel orange fruit set.
- Taxon
- Navel Orange TreesCitrus sinensist0
- Treatment
- GA3 and MLEe3
- Outcome
- fruit sete3
- Direction
- highest valuee3
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
t0“Navel Orange Trees”
e3“treatments in general improved significantly Navel orange fruit set, where GA3 and MLE treatments gave the highest value”
Claim · model-written summary
Moringa leaf extract induced the highest navel orange yield, followed by other treatments.
- Taxon
- Navel Orange TreesCitrus sinensist0
- Treatment
- MLEe4
- Outcome
- yielde4
- Direction
- higheste4
- Comparator
- other treatmentse4
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t0“Navel Orange Trees”
e4“The highest yield was induced by MLE followed by other treatments”
Claim · model-written summary
Moringa leaf extract gave the lowest fruit peel firmness compared with the other treatments.
- Taxon
- Navel Orange TreesCitrus sinensist0
- Treatment
- MLEe5
- Outcome
- fruit peel firmnesse5
- Direction
- loweste5
- Comparator
- other onese5
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Verbatim
t0“Navel Orange Trees”
e5“MLE treatment gave the lowest fruit peel firmness compared to other ones”
Claim · model-written summary
Moringa leaf extract and GA3 increased navel orange juice percentage.
- Taxon
- Navel Orange TreesCitrus sinensist0
- Treatment
- MLE and GA3e6
- Outcome
- juice percentagee6
- Direction
- increasede6
Not reportedComparator
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t0“Navel Orange Trees”
e6“MLE and GA3 treatments increased juice percentage and gave the highest TSS %”
Claim · model-written summary
Moringa leaf extract and GA3 gave the highest total soluble solids (TSS %) in navel orange juice.
- Taxon
- Navel Orange TreesCitrus sinensist0
- Treatment
- MLE and GA3e6
- Outcome
- TSS %e6
- Direction
- higheste6
Not reportedComparator
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t0“Navel Orange Trees”
e6“MLE and GA3 treatments increased juice percentage and gave the highest TSS %”
Claim · model-written summary
Moringa leaf extract significantly increased navel orange juice acidity compared with the other treatments.
- Taxon
- Navel Orange TreesCitrus sinensist0
- Treatment
- MLEe7
- Outcome
- juice aciditye7
- Direction
- increasee7
- Comparator
- the other treatmentse7
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Verbatim
t0“Navel Orange Trees”
e7“MLE treatment increase significantly juice acidity compared to the other treatments”
Claim · model-written summary
KNO3 gave the highest nitrite and nitrate values in navel orange fruit juice.
- Taxon
- Navel Orange TreesCitrus sinensist0
- Treatment
- KNO3e7
- Outcome
- nitrite and nitrate in fruit juicee7
- Direction
- highest valuese7
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
t0“Navel Orange Trees”
e7“KNO3 treatment gave the highest values of nitrite and nitrate in fruit juice, while GA3 and MLE treatments were the lowest”
Claim · model-written summary
GA3 and Moringa leaf extract gave the lowest nitrite and nitrate values in navel orange fruit juice.
- Taxon
- Navel Orange TreesCitrus sinensist0
- Treatment
- GA3 and MLEe7
- Outcome
- nitrite and nitrate in fruit juicee7
- Direction
- the loweste7
- Comparator
- KNO3 treatmente7
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Verbatim
t0“Navel Orange Trees”
e7“KNO3 treatment gave the highest values of nitrite and nitrate in fruit juice, while GA3 and MLE treatments were the lowest”
Claim · model-written summary
KNO3 and Moringa leaf extract significantly increased leaf N and K contents of navel orange.
- Taxon
- Navel Orange TreesCitrus sinensist0
- Treatment
- KNO3 and MLEe7
- Outcome
- leaf N and K contentse7
- Direction
- increasede7
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
t0“Navel Orange Trees”
e7“KNO3 and MLE significantly increased leaf N and K contents”
Claim · model-written summary
The treatments had no significant effect on leaf P% content of navel orange in either season.
- Taxon
- Navel Orange TreesCitrus sinensist0
- Treatment
- treatments in this studye7
- Outcome
- leaf P% contente7
- Direction
- insignificant effecte7
Not reportedComparator
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t0“Navel Orange Trees”
e7“treatments in this study had insignificant effect on leaf P% content in both seasons”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend Moringa leaf extract at 3% to stimulate biomass production of navel orange trees.
- Taxon
- navel orange treesCitrus sinensise7
- Treatment
- moringa leaves extracte7
- Outcome
- biomass productione7
- Value
- 3%e7
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Verbatim
t0“Navel Orange Trees”
e7“moringa leaves extract can be used at rates of 3% to stimulate the biomass production of Washington navel orange trees yield”
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