Effect of yeast and ascorbic acid application on growth and fruiting of Williams banana plants

Abstract EN

This study was conducted during two successive seasons (2016/2017 first ratoon and 2017/2018 second ratoon) of Williams banana plants.

The plants grown in a private banana orchard, where clay loam soil under flood irrigation system, at 3.5x3.5m apart located at Nakada district, Quena Governorate, Egypt.

Forty eight stools each containing three plants were chosen to evaluate the effect of yeast applied as soil drench and spraying ascorbic acid (V.

C) on growth, yield and fruit quality.

These treatments were arranged in a randomized complete block design in split plot arrangement with three replicates