Agricultural sciences take an interest not only in the common and valued cropforming factors, but also in those less expensive, safe environmentally and generally underestimated. The technology of magnetic water has been developed and subsequently used widely in the field of agriculture in many countries such as Australia, USA, China and Japan. Desperate its importance, it is not yet explored in Egypt. Therefore, the present work was carried out to study the response of some food crops using magnetized water for irrigation purpose under green house condition. Monocotyledonous such as wheat and flax and dicotyledonous such as chick-pea and lentil plants were selected for the present study. Based on the results of our experiments revealed all the plants which were irrigated with magnetic water exhibited a remarkable increase in vegetative growth and biochemical constitutions. Further the results indicated that the number of protein bands got increased in plants treated with magnetized water when compared to untreated control plants. Moreover, the magnetized water treatment increased yield and yield component traits of all crops. Over two seasons, the increases in seeds yield/plant in monocotyledonous crops reached to 9.10% and 31.33% for flax and wheat, respectively and in dicotyledonous crops reached to 24.92% and 38.46%, for lentil and check pea, respectively compared with crops irrigated with tap water. It may be concluded that the preliminary study upon the utilization of magnetized water could led to improve the quantity and quality of crop production under Egyptian condition.
Background Salinity has a negative effect on the productivity of many crops. Therefore, the present study was conducted to investigate the effect of pre-soaking in different concentrations of tryptophan (0.0, 2.5, and 5.0 mM) on growth, yield and root quality of two sugar beet cultivars (DS-9004 and LP-15) under different salinity levels (320, 2000, 4000, 6000, and 8000 ppm) in an effort to reduce salinity damage on sugar beet. The data were collected at 2 stages of growth (75 and 180 days after sowing). Results The results revealed that the pre-soaking in tryptophan treatments (2.5 mM) were the most effective treatments under different salinity levels and caused significant increases in all tested parameters of this study. Moreover, increasing salinity levels decreased significantly the root purity parameters and increased impurity parameters of sugar beet. The DS-9004 cultivar gave the highest values of all studied parameters compared with the LP-15 cultivar under different salinity levels with tryptophan (2.5 mM). Chlorophyll a content and chlorophyll a/b ratio, as well as carotenoids content, were highest in DS-9004 cultivar, while chlorophyll b content was highest in LP-15 cultivar at 75 days. Conclusions Salinity level up to 320 ppm positively affected the growth yield of sugar beet while the highest significant reduction was associated with increasing salinity up to 8000 ppm. Thus, pre-soaking in tryptophan (2.5 mM) has a promotive effect on increasing sugar beet yield under water salinity conditions.
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