Response of night-blooming jessamine (Cestrum nocturnum L.)‎ plants to phosphorus-zinc relation.1-growth, flowering and uptake of phosphorous and zinc

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Night blooming jessamine (Cestrum nocturnum L.) plants were grown in pots to study P-Zn relations as the behavior of both P and Zn affecting the absorption of each other by the plant that reflect on growth and flowering.

Phosphorus was applied to soil at rates of 0 to 560 ppm with addition of Zn at rates of 0 to 48 ppm.

Greatest plant height, branch number, flowering (earliness and duration) and maximum dry weight accumulation in the different plant parts were occurred by the combination of 280 ppm P and 24 ppm Zn applied.

In the absence of added P, shoot/root ratio was increased with increasing Zn level up to 24 ppm.

Phosphorus at 70 and 560 ppm with Zn levels, this ratio was a nearly constant, while P at 140 and 280 ppm with low Zn level added, the ratio was decreased.

Total uptake of P and Zn indicated that P and Zn fertilization had altered the uptake of both nutrients by the plant.

Total uptake of P was increased by high P and low Zn.

Total Zinc uptake varied opposite to that of P.

The maximum of P and Zn were obtained by P280 Zn24 as the greatest growth and flowering occurred.