Physiological studies on eggplant (Solanum melongena) grown under drought conditions

Sayed F. El-Sayed; M. M Shahein; Mohamed A. Abdrabbo; Asmaa S. Hafez

doi:10.53730/ijhs.v6nS9.12933

Authors

Sayed F. El-Sayed Vegetable crops department, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
Shahein M. M Vegetable crops department, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
Mohamed A. Abdrabbo Central Laboratory for Agricultural Climate (CLAC), Agricultural Research Center, Egypt, Dr. Michiel Bakoum St., El Dokki, Giza, Egypt
Asmaa S. Hafez Central Laboratory for Agricultural Climate (CLAC), Agricultural Research Center, Egypt, Dr. Michiel Bakoum St., El Dokki, Giza, Egypt

Keywords:

Deficit Irrigation, Subsurface Drip Irrigation System, Leaf Relative Water Content, Membrane Stability Index, IWUE

Abstract

Field experiment was conducted during the two growing seasons of 2019 and 2021, at Dokki region, El-Giza Governorate, Egypt, in order to investigate the effect of deficit irrigation (DI) treatments: 100% (control), 70% and 50% of ETo (Reference evapotranspiration) and two irrigation systems: Surface drip irrigation (SDI) and Subsurface irrigation (SSI)porous pipe (20.0cm soil depth) on vegetative growth, chemical constituents, fruit yield and quality of eggplant plants (Cultivars : “Classic” “Swad Eleil”). Results revealed that, DI treatments significantly decreased the vegetative growth, total yield ,marketable yield, leaf relative water content (LRWC) and membrane stability index (MSI) of eggplant plants, compared to control treatment (100% ETₒ). While, water stress treatments improved leaves proline content, alkaloids and irrigation water use efficiency (IWUE). Using SSI (porous pipe) system significantly increased plant height, fresh weight, total yield, marketable fruit yield of eggplant, LRWC and MSI, “Classic” cv had the highest total yield and total marketable yield under the subsurface irrigation system compared to “Swad El-Layl”cv. Regarding, the effect of interaction between DI treatments and irrigation systems, the results illustrated that application of irrigation water with 100% ET0 by SSI system produced the highest significant values of vegetative growth, fruit yield.

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