Alleviating saline-calcareous stress in Atriplex nummularia seedlings by foliar spraying with silymarin-enriched bee-honey solution

• DOI: 10.21608/ifjsis.2023.296590
• Publication Date: 2023-05-09T21:15:17Z
• Authors: Doaa Tarfayah; Safia Ahmed; Mostafa Rady; Ibrahim Mohamed
• Keywords: Atriplex

When the plant is subjected to stress conditions on saline-calcareous soil, it severely damaged and may die.Overcoming these saline calcareous stresses a challenge for sustainability of human animal feeding.During 2020 2021, potential enhancing impacts treating Atriplex nummularia seedlings with 1% bee-honey solution enriched 200 μg silymarin per L (SBH) growth, physiological biochemical traits, antioxidant systems, nutritional value under soil were investigated.Foliar spraying A. SBH significantly improved root activity, photosynthetic efficiency, leaf cell integrity, soluble protein, osmo-regulators, different antioxidants, status, while markers oxidative (H2O2 O2 •-) damage (lipid peroxidation electrolyte leakage), total phenols, Na + levels suppressed.The results this investigation recommended utilization producing satisfactory productivities salinecalcareous conditions.