Abstract
Abstract The research aimed to examine the enhancement effect of Spirulina platensis (blue-green microalga or Cyanobacterium ) and Chlorella vulgaris (green microalga) water extracts as biological stimulant in improving growth parameters, chlorophyll content, yield, and fruit quality of tomato plants under salinity stress. Tomato seeds ( Solanum lycopersicum L. of cv. Agyad) were soaked in three microalgae water extracts at a 10% concentration ( Chlorella vulgaris , Spirulina platensis , and Chlorella:Spirulina at a ratio of 1:1). Chemical and biochemical analyses for the used materials and products were achieved. After germination, tomato transplants were irrigated with saline water at three levels of saline water (2, 4, and 7 dS/m) using sea salt. Successive grown tomato transplant at 7.0 dS/cm were infused in clayey soil. The grown plants were preyed by algal extract and irrigated by the same solution. Vegetative growth, yield, shelf life, and chlorophylls (a and b) were determined. It was found that the highest vegetative growth, yield, and chlorophyll content were measured in tomato transplants with the Spirulina : Chlorella mixture, followed by Spirulina platensis and Chlorella vulgaris water extracts; all of these measurements increased significantly in response to microalgae treatments. Experimental tomato fruits of Chlorella and mixture treatments can stay for 45 days at room temperature. Both algal extracts and their mixture enhanced the bioaccumulation of micronutrients (Fe, Zn, Mn, and Cu), compared with the control, while Chlorella extract surpassed Spirulina and mixture extracts. Concerning the used dried algae and their water extract, Spirulina platensis surpasses Chlorella vulgaris for protein and ash content.
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Claim · model-written summary
Vegetative growth, yield and chlorophyll content of tomato were highest with the Spirulina:Chlorella mixture, followed by Spirulina platensis and Chlorella vulgaris extracts.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- Spirulina : Chlorella mixturee0
- Outcome
- vegetative growth, yield, and chlorophyll contente0
- Direction
- higheste0
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e0“the highest vegetative growth, yield, and chlorophyll content were measured in tomato transplants with the Spirulina : Chlorella mixture, followed by Spirulina platensis and Chlorella vulgaris water extracts”
t0“tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
All measurements of growth, yield and chlorophyll increased significantly in response to microalgae treatments.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- microalgae treatmentse0
- Outcome
- all of these measurementse0
- Direction
- increasede0
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e0“all of these measurements increased significantly in response to microalgae treatments”
t0“tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Tomato fruits of the Chlorella and mixture treatments could be kept for 45 days at room temperature.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Outcome
- can stay for 45 dayse0
- Value
- 45 dayse0
- Setting
- room temperaturee0
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e0“Experimental tomato fruits of Chlorella and mixture treatments can stay for 45 days at room temperature”
t0“tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Algal extracts and their mixture enhanced bioaccumulation of micronutrients (Fe, Zn, Mn, Cu) in tomato compared with the control.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- Both algal extracts and their mixturee0
- Outcome
- bioaccumulation of micronutrients (Fe, Zn, Mn, and Cu)e0
- Direction
- enhancede0
- Comparator
- controle0
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Verbatim
e0“Both algal extracts and their mixture enhanced the bioaccumulation of micronutrients (Fe, Zn, Mn, and Cu), compared with the control”
t0“tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Chlorella extract surpassed Spirulina and mixture extracts in micronutrient bioaccumulation.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- Chlorella extracte0
- Outcome
- bioaccumulation of micronutrientse1
- Direction
- surpassede0
- Comparator
- Spirulina and mixture extractse0
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e0“while Chlorella extract surpassed Spirulina and mixture extracts”
e1“bioaccumulation of micronutrients”
t0“tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Dried Spirulina platensis and its water extract surpassed Chlorella vulgaris in protein and ash content.
- Taxon
- Spirulina platensis
Limnospira platensise0 - Outcome
- protein and ash contente0
- Comparator
- Chlorella vulgarise0
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Verbatim
e0“Spirulina platensis surpasses Chlorella vulgaris for protein and ash content”
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