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ArticleBMC plant biology2024

The impact of biochar addition on morpho-physiological characteristics, yield and water use efficiency of tomato plants under drought and salinity stress.

Ghulam Murtaza, Muhammad Usman, Javed Iqbal, Muhammad Nauman Tahir, Mohamed S Elshikh, Jawaher Alkahtani, Monika Toleikienė, Rashid Iqbal, M Irfan Akram, Nazim S Gruda

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Article in BMC plant biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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10 authors.

Ghulam MurtazaFaculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, 650500, China. murtazabotanist@gmail.com.
Muhammad UsmanSchool of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Minghang District, Shanghai, 200240, China.
Javed IqbalDepartment of Botany, Bacha Khan University, Charsadda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 24420, Pakistan.
Muhammad Nauman TahirFaculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, 650500, China.
Mohamed S ElshikhDepartment of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, 11451, Saudi Arabia.
Jawaher AlkahtaniDepartment of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, 11451, Saudi Arabia.
Monika ToleikienėInstitute of Agriculture, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Instituo Al. 1, Akademija, Kedainiai, LT- 58344, Lithuania.
Rashid IqbalDepartment of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, 63100, Pakistan. rashid.iqbal@iub.edu.pk.
M Irfan AkramDepartment of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, 63000, Pakistan.
Nazim S GrudaInstitute of Plant Sciences and Resource Conservation, Division of Horticultural Sciences, University of Bonn, 53115, Bonn, Germany. ngruda@uni-bonn.de.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The use of saline water under drought conditions is critical for sustainable agricultural development in arid regions. Biochar is used as a soil amendment to enhance soil properties such as water-holding capacity and the source of nutrition elements of plants. Thus, the research was carried out to assess the impact of biochar treatment on the morphological and physiological characteristics and production of Solanum lycopersicum in greenhouses exposed to drought and saline stresses. The study was structured as a three-factorial in split-split-plot design. There were 16 treatments across three variables: (i) water quality, with freshwater and saline water, with electrical conductivities of 0.9 and 2.4 dS m

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CharcoalDroughtsSalt StressSolanum lycopersicumWaterAgricultural IrrigationPhotosynthesisbiocharCharcoalWaterAbiotic stressBiocharPlant growthProduce qualitySalinitySolanum lycopersicum

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