Biochar-based organic fertilizers: Influence on yield and concentration of antioxidants in the stigma of saffron and rhizosphere bacterial diversity of slightly saline and non-saline soils.

ABSTRACT: Being the most expensive spice, saffron has great economic importance. This crop grows well in cold arid deserts. Salinity is one of the important limiting factors for the cultivation of this crop. However, the use of composted manured and co-composted biochar and fertilizers can play a role in attenuating the salinity stress on this crop. In this two-year field study, manures from three sources: sheep and goat (SG), cow and buffalo (FYM), and poultry (PM) farms, and their co-compost with slow-pyrolyzed wood-derived biochar (B) were used for saffron cultivation in slightly saline (electrical conductivity 1.95 dS m^-1) and non-saline soils. Yield and concentration of antioxidants of stigma and bacterial diversity in the rhizosphere of this crop, under salinity

SUBMITTER: Qasim S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10826820 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature