Impact of mycorrhizal and compost tea on wheat under water stress
Keywords:
Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), water stress, mycorrhizae, compost tea, growth, yield and yield components, chemical compositionAbstract
In the winter of 2024–2025, this experiment was carried out on the farm owned by researcher Musa Muhammad Ibrahim in the Awlad Ali neighborhood of Tarhuna, Libya. The current study investigated the effects of three different mycorrhizal plus compost tea (CT) inoculation rates (15, 30, and 45%) and irrigation levels (100, 75, and 50%) on the wheat cultivar "Sakha 93." The treatments in the experiment were set up in a spilt-spilt plot design, with irrigation levels as the main plot and mycorrhizal + compost tea as the submain plot. There were three duplicates of each therapy. In comparison to the control treatment, which recorded the lowest values of these traits, the results demonstrated that 100% irrigation produced higher values of vegetative growth (plant height, dry weight/plant, leaf area index, and total chlorophyll), yield and yield components (spike length, number of spikes/m2, number of grains/spike, 100-grain weight, grain yield, biological yield and harvest index), and chemical composition (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and protein percentages). High concentration of mycorrhizae (AMF) with compost tea (45 ml/l) In comparison to the control treatment, which had the lowest values of these traits, the plant height, dry weight/plant, leaf area index, total chlorophyll, yield, and yield components—such as spike length, number of spikes/m2, number of grains/spike, 100-grain weight, grain yield, biological yield and harvest index, and chemical composition—such as nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and protein percentages—were significantly increased. Plant height, dry weight/plant, leaf area index (LAI), total chlorophyll (SPAD), spike length, number of spikes/m2, number of grains/spike, 100-grain weight, grain yield, biological yield and harvest index, and chemical composition (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and protein percentages) on wheat cv were all significantly impacted by the interaction of irrigation levels, mycorrhizal inoculation, and compost tea. "Sakha 93"
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