TY  - SER
AU  - Pantamit Saekong    
AU  - Datta,Avishek
AU  - Loc, Thai Nguyen,
AU  - Anal,Anil K.
ED  - The Royal Thai Government,
ED  - AIT Fellowship,
TI  - Effects of seed priming and soil application with silicon on growth, yield and quality of grape tomato under water deficit 
T2  - Thesis
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Pathum Thani, Thailand
PB  - Asian Institute of Technology
KW  - Plants
KW  - Effect of drought on
KW  - Seed treatment
KW  - Tomatoes
N1  - A Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of  Master of Science in Agricultural Systems and Engineering; Thesis (M. Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2020
N2  - In the arid and semiarid area, where the precipitation is insufficient, tomato cultivation is necessarily suffered from water deficit stress. However, silicon has been well  documented as beneficial elements for intensifying the plant resistance to serveral biological and environmental stresses, especially drought. For evaluating the  ameliorative effect of Si on growth, yield, and fruit quality of grape tomato under water  deficit stress, the two experiments were carried out to investigate the effect of doses,  and application methods of Sa on grape tomato under water limiting condition. The first  experiment was soil application with Sa, which treatments consisted of five Sa levels (0, 75, 150, 300, and 600 kg Sa ha-1) corresponding to three levels of soil water content (50% FC, 75% FC, and 100% FC). For the 2nd experiment, Sa was applied by seed  priming, which treatments included five Sa doses of priming solution (0, 0.065, 0.125,  0.25, and 0.5 mM), transplanting under the same soil water content with the first  experiment. The result revealed that under moderate drought stress (75% FC), total  yield was significantly decreased by approximately 28% and 48% in soil application  and priming seed with Sa, respectively. Interestingly, the Sa application irrespective of  application methods provided a higher fruit{u2019}s number and total weight of tomato. The  result of Sa application either seed priming at 0.25 mM, and soil application at 300 kg  Sa ha-1 were more pronounced than other doses, and could be suggested as the optimal  doses for cherry tomato T309 hybrid tomato variety cultivated in water limiting  condition
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