The effect of different salts applied at different development stages on the yield and quality of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum)

Yurtseven E., Halloran D., Kutuk C., Demir K.

International Symposium on Techniques to Control Salination for Horticultural Productivity, Antalya, Türkiye, 7 - 10 Kasım 2000, ss.415-421 identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Doi Numarası: 10.17660/actahortic.2002.573.50
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Antalya
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Türkiye
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.415-421
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: salinity, Lycopersicon esculentum, fruit quality, mineral contents, growth stages, GERMINATION
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This research is carried out to determine the effects of salinity applied at different development stages on vegetative development, fruit diameter, height, yield, and mineral contents of tomato. Experiments set in the field having PE lysimeters with 35 cm diameter and 50 cm depth. Falcon and Likya F, tomato cultivars were used as the plant material. Plants were irrigated during at the early seedling, anthesis, and fruit set stages with solutions of either KCl+CaCl2 or NaCl+CaCl2 at two different total salinity levels as 2.5 and 5 dS m(-1). Yield values of both cultivars significantly decreased relative to controls with the increase in salinity of water. While fruit diameter 1 increased in Falcon by irrigation water salinity, it decreased especially at 5 dS m(-1) salinity level for Likya cv. Changes in fruit length were depend upon the cultivars. Fruit mineral contents as Na+, K+, Ca++, Mg++ and Cl- have changed significantly by salinity and the mineral contents increased in all treatments relative to control with the increase in salinity of water.