Geography and Regional Planning

Geography and Regional Planning

The effect of replacing nitrogenous chemical fertilizer with vermicompost on Moldavian dragonhead with emphasis on different irrigation levels

Authors
Shahabuddin Filsouf 1
Farshad Ghooshchi 2
Hamidreza Toheidi Moghadam 2
Porang Kasraei 3
Mohammad Nasri 2
1 Ph.D. Student of Agriculture Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Varamin-Pishva Branch Islamic Azad University, Varamin, Iran.
2 Associate Professor of Agriculture Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Varamin-Pishva Branch Islamic Azad University, Varamin, Iran.
3 Assistant Professor of Agriculture Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Varamin-Pishva Branch Islamic Azad University, Varamin, Iran.
10.22034/jgeoq.2025.482611.4143
Abstract
Moldavian balm, as a medicinal plant, is widely used in the pharmaceutical and food industries. In order to investigate the quantitative and qualitative traits of Moldavian balm plant under the influence of different levels of fertilizer and irrigation, a split plot experiment was conducted in the form of a randomized complete block design (with 18 treatments) in three replications and in two crop years 1402 and 1403 in a field in Karaj. took Experimental treatments include irrigation regimes up to the field capacity after draining 25% of usable water at the depth of root development (optimal irrigation) (I1), irrigation up to the field capacity after draining 40% of usable water at the depth of root development (I2). and irrigation up to the capacity of the field after draining 55% of usable water at the depth of root development (I3) and fertilizer regimen including no fertilizer application (F1), 100% urea fertilizer (F2), 75% urea fertilizer + 25% vermicompost fertilizer (F3), 50% urea fertilizer + 50% vermicompost fertilizer (F4), 25% urea fertilizer + 75% vermicompost fertilizer (F5) and 100% vermicompost fertilizer (F6) and respectively in the plots Main and secondary were placed randomly. The results of this experiment showed that plant height, number of branches, number of flowering branches, dry weight, etc. decreased with increasing stress intensity, but carotenoid, proline, soluble sugars, total phenols, catalase, superoxide traits decreased. Decimutase and malondialdehyde were increased.
Keywords
Nitrogenous fertilizer
vermicompost
Moldavian dragonhead
irrigation
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