Original scientific paper

MECHANICALLY INDUCED STRESS STOPS STEM ELONGATION IN AROMATIC PLANT TRANSPLANTS

Josipa Horvat orcid.org/0000-0002-4144-4236 ; Institut za poljoprivredu i turizam, Poreč, Hrvatska
Ivanka Žutić ; Agronomski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Dean Ban ; Institut za poljoprivredu i turizam, Poreč, Hrvatska

Abstract

The aim of this experiment was to determine how brushing as a mechanically induced stress influences transplants of some aromatic plants: basil, dill and majoran. Transplants were treated once a day, during two months with hemp sacks brushing over the plants surface for 10 to 25 times in a row. Brushing reduced height in all three species for 23%. With basil and majoran it also enhanced quality and exuberance, while dill was damaged. Brushing basil and majoran also reduced the highest plant weight, leaf length, with majoran also reduced leaf width, and did not influence dill and majoran root length, but shortened the length of basil root for 11%. On the basis of this experiment, the brushing treatment could be recommended for basil and majoran transplants production

Keywords

Anethum graveolens L. var. hortorum; brushing; Ocimun basilicum L.; Origanum majorana L.; height reduction

Hrčak ID:

68987

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/68987

Publication date:

31.3.2011.

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