Megafol

Type: Mix of different types, Company: Valagro

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Effect

Increased drought stress tolerance

Megafol treated Tomato, cv. Ikram, grown under drought stress conditions had at the end of the experiment 10.5 % more digital biomass and a 7.8 % higher high water content index compared to the untreated control plants grown in the same conditions.

Trial details

indoor, greenhouse, vased filed with 3.5 L substrate 50:50 peat moss:river sand, drought stress induced after the third or fourth non-cotyledon had fully formed

Italy

Crop

Tomato, Solanum lycopersicum L.

Trial application

Method

Foliar spray

Timing

First treatment 3 days before start of drought stress, followed by 0 treatments

Rate

2ml/L

Petrozza, A., Santaniello, A., Summerer, S., Di Tommaso, G., Di Tommaso, D., Paparelli, E., Piagessi, A., Perata, P., & Cellini, F.

2014

Physiological responses to Megafol®treatments in tomato plantsunder drought stress: A phenomic and molecular approach

Scientia Horticulturae

174

185-192

Crop group

Fruit vegetable crops