Yellow passion fruit (Passiflora edulis F. flavicapa, Deg) is a highly valued crop across the wor... more Yellow passion fruit (Passiflora edulis F. flavicapa, Deg) is a highly valued crop across the world but it is rarely cultivated in warm high rainfall environments. This study was conducted to determine the effect of different soil moisture contents on growth and development of passion fruit seedling under a warm, humid, and high rainfall environmental condition. Passion fruit seedlings were planted in poly-pots and watered at field capacity for seven weeks before subjecting them to different soil moisture regimes. The treatments were: water every day at field capacity (FC), water after three days to FC, water after one week to FC, and water after three weeks to FC, which correspond to ≥ FC, 65% FC, 25% FC and ≤ 0% FC respectively. Shoot-root ratio, number of leaves, leaf width and length and stem moisture contents were greater by watering every three days to FC than watering every day at field capacity. By withholding watering for three weeks, leaf number, width and moisture content...
Yellow passion fruit (Passiflora edulis F. flavicapa, Deg) is a highly valued crop across the wor... more Yellow passion fruit (Passiflora edulis F. flavicapa, Deg) is a highly valued crop across the world but it is rarely cultivated in warm high rainfall environments. This study was conducted to determine the effect of different soil moisture contents on growth and development of passion fruit seedling under a warm, humid, and high rainfall environmental condition. Passion fruit seedlings were planted in poly-pots and watered at field capacity for seven weeks before subjecting them to different soil moisture regimes. The treatments were: water every day at field capacity (FC), water after three days to FC, water after one week to FC, and water after three weeks to FC, which correspond to ≥ FC, 65% FC, 25% FC and ≤ 0% FC respectively. Shoot-root ratio, number of leaves, leaf width and length and stem moisture contents were greater by watering every three days to FC than watering every day at field capacity. By withholding watering for three weeks, leaf number, width and moisture content...
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