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The Nitrogen Effects on Growth and Development of Morphological Parameters of “Argania Spinosa L. skeel” Tree Seedlings

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The all-alone sapotaceae “Argania spinosa L. skeel”, Moroccan endemic tree since the tertiary era where, the unique place in all the world incorporated in the regional tradition, is qualified as an oleo-agrosylvo-pastoral tree. It has a lot of uses especially socioeconomic for the southern people. This tree, which was ubiquitous in the past than nowadays, recently its adaptation decrease achieved till about 800 000 ha superficies of semi-arid, arid, and desert bioclimate. The domestication is a solution assumed to face the argan desertification. For that aim, the present paper focuses on the nitrogen (N) effects on growth and development of “Argania spinosa L. skeel” tree seedlings morphological characteristics. The outcomes obtained mentioned that the argan seedlings’ morphology grew and developed very highly significantly different depending on the N rate. In plus the control seven (7) different N doses (0, 50, 100, 150, 200, 250, and 300%) were choose referring to the interval salt minerals needs of woody plants by using a modified nutrient solution composition. The highest means collected, are: the leaves number (150.3), the epicotyl height (37.97 cm), the epicotyl height increase (4.003 cm/month), the collar-diameter (3.66 mm), the shoot and root fresh matter (5663.73 and 6268.58 mg) respectively, the total fresh matter (11932.3 mg), the shoot and root dry matter (4204.9 and 2216.65 mg) respectively, the SDM: RDM ratio (1.89), and the Dickson’s quality index (0.52), highlight that 150% of N is highly significantly the best level. In the opposite side, N deficiency (0%) is the worst treatment.

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My all thanks after Allah are sent to my family whose financed my work studies and encourage me to go ahead and progress in my study, and to Mohamed V Faculty of Sciences in Rabat, for given me a space in the garden and inside the laboratory of biotechnology, biology, and plant physiology, where I am studding and doing my all-assays research.

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Farhoune, H., Cherkaoui, S. (2023). The Nitrogen Effects on Growth and Development of Morphological Parameters of “Argania Spinosa L. skeel” Tree Seedlings. In: Kacprzyk, J., Ezziyyani, M., Balas, V.E. (eds) International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Development. AI2SD 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 713. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35248-5_18

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