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Effect of Diniconazole Treatments on Growth of Plug Seedlings in Melon (Cucumis melo L.)
Jae-pil Jeong1†
,
Chang-Hyu Bae23
1MS Course Student, Department of Smart Agriculture, Graduate School, Sunchon National University, Suncheon 57922, Korea
2Professor, Department of Smart Agriculture, Graduate School, Sunchon National University, Suncheon 57922, Korea
3Professor, Department of Agricultural Life Sciences, Sunchon National University, Suncheon 57922, Korea
*Corresponding Author
†Present address: Raising Seedling Center at Gokseong Agri- cultural Cooperative, Chonnam Province, Korea
1 December 2024. pp. 625-632
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Abstract

In order to promote healthy seedlings, foliar spraying of triazole-based diniconazole is mainly used in nurseries. As the inhibitory effect of foliar spraying weakens, plant growth inhibitors are sprayed several times for prevention of over-growth and healthy seedling in some varieties, so the foliar spraying method causes fatal damage to the growing point of the plants. To solve the problem of the foliar spraying treatment, the effects between the foliar spraying and the irrigation with drenching methods on the growth inhibition of plug seedlings were evaluated using diniconazole treatments in melon (Cucumis melo L. var. ‘Ochigi’). As a result of the experiments, plant height, hypocotyl length, leaf length and width of all the melon seedlings were decreased significantly as the treatment concentration of diniconazole increased. In particular, compared to the foliar spraying, the inhibiting effect of the irrigation treatment on seedling growth was maintained until the shipment time of plug seedlings. Thus, the irrigation treatment was more effective than the foliar spraying to yield healthy seedlings. The result be able to be used as fundamental data for yielding healthy seedlings of gourd crops.

Keywords
Diniconazole
Foliage treatment
Hypocotyl
Irrigation treatment with drenching
Plant growth inhibitors
Triazoles
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  • Publisher :The Plant Resources Society of Korea
  • Publisher(Ko) :한국자원식물학회
  • Journal Title :Korean Journal of Plant Resources
  • Journal Title(Ko) :한국자원식물학회지
  • Volume : 37
  • No :6
  • Pages :625-632
  • Received Date : 2024-11-12
  • Revised Date : 2024-11-25
  • Accepted Date : 2024-11-26
  • DOI :https://doi.org/10.7732/kjpr.2024.37.6.625
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