Increasing The Production of Thai Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) Grown at Altitude of 2 Masl Using Mycorrhizal Biofertilizer

Rahman Hairuddin,S Sachril

doi:10.31327/atj.v4i1.908

Abstract

This study was aimed to increase the production of Thai eggplant (Solanum melongena L) grown at altitude of 2 masl using myccohirzal biofertilizer. The study was conducted in Experimental Farm of Agricultural Faculty of Campus II University of Cokroaminoto Palopo, Batu Pasi Sub-district, Wara Utara District, Palopo City. This research applied the method of Randomized Block Design with four replicants and five treatments; P0 = Without treatment (control), P1 = Mycorrhizal fertilizer of 5 gr/plant, P2 = Mycorrhizal fertilizer of 10 gr/plant, P3 = Mycorrhizal fertilizer of 15 gr/plant, and P4 = Mycorrhizal fertilizer of 20 gr/plant. Research of this study showed that one treatment significantly affected the root length of eggplant, namely P2 with root length of 39.42 cm. In general, application of mycorrhizal fertilizer did not significantly affect the growth and production of eggplant, but several doses resulted in better outcome. Treatment of P3 obtained the best plant height of 9.22 cm, while the best average flowering age was found in P2 and P4 of 31.8 days after planting. Moreover, P3 and P4 produced the most number of flower, namely 3.83 flowers, while the most number of fruits was obtained by P4 of 3.53 fruits. At last, P3 produced the heaviest fresh weight of fruit of 221.13 gram

Highlights

IntroductionOne effort to increase eggplant growth and production is conducted by improving root function to absorb nutrient and water available in soil
The diagram below shows that the height of eggplant plants given mycorrhizal fertilizer 15 grams / plant (P3) shows the best plant height of all existing treatments with an average plant height of 9.22 cm while the lowest plant height is found in plants given mycorrhizal fertilizer 10 gram / plant (P2) with plant height of 8.82 cm
Number of Fruit (Fruits) The average number of round green eggplant fruit plants shown in the diagram shows differences in the number of fruits between plants given mycorrhizal fertilizers and plants that were not given mycorrhizal fertilizers, where analysis of variance showed that plants were given 20 grams of mycorrhizal fertilizer / plant (P4) has the highest number of fruit, which is 3.53 while plants that are not given mycorrhizal / control fertilizer (P0) are plants that have the lowest number of fruits of all plants with a number of fruits which is 1.94 fruits

Summary

Introduction

One effort to increase eggplant growth and production is conducted by improving root function to absorb nutrient and water available in soil. Improving root function can be done by stimulating or inducing roots with the help of fungi or bioagents that are able to penetrate to plant roots, such as mycorrhizal fungi and bioagents like Trichoderma sp., Pseudomonas Fluorescent Indofit sp., and Bacillus Subtilis sp. Treatment of mycorrhiza at dose of 50 gram resulted in the highest effect on vegetative growth of peanut plant, both the height and dry weight of plant According to those findings, the objective of this study was to investigate production increase of Thai eggplant (Solanum melongena L) grown at altitude of 2 masl and treated with mycorrhizal biofertilizer

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