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Degree of seedbed compaction and response of spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) under different traffic treatmentsOriginal Paper
Esra Nur Gül, Emine Polat, Engin Özgöz, Naif Geboloğlu
Hort. Sci. (Prague), X:X | DOI: 10.17221/143/2024-HORTSCI 
Soil compaction has negative impacts on plant productivity. Degradation of soil structure as a result of soil compaction can inhibit the development of plant roots and make it difficult for plants to take up water and nutrients. This can negatively affect plant growth and productivity. Compaction restricts plant root growth by increasing mechanical resistance, reducing oxygen uptake, and thus reducing crop yields as it inhibits plant development. In this study, the effects of soil compaction due to machinery traffic on the physical structure of soil, morphological characteristics and yield of spinach were investigated in Tokat, where vegetable farming...
Knowing your enemy before taking the field: A screening of salt and UV-B treatments to boost the biochemical defences of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L., ‘Moneymaker’ cultivar) plantlets in controlled conditionsOriginal Paper
Maria Calogera Sciampagna, Alessia Mannucci, Salvatore Limpido, Annamaria Ranieri, Antonella Castagna, Marco Santin
Hort. Sci. (Prague), X:X | DOI: 10.17221/109/2023-HORTSCI
Plants are commonly exposed to different abiotic stress factors that can threaten their growth and development. Abiotic treatments might be used as a tool to increase the tolerance of plants grown in controlled environments before being transplanted in open fields, but this technique needs a careful choice of the stressor dose. We screened several UV-B radiation doses (1 h, 3 h, 6 h and 8 h per day) and NaCl doses (75 mM, 150 mM, 300 mM), separately, to be employed as preconditioning treatments of tomato plantlets (Solanum lycopersicum L., ‘Moneymaker’ cultivar) cultivated in a controlled environment. Biometric parameters and antioxidant...