INFLUENCE OF CERIUM OXIDE NANOPARTICLES AND NPK NANOFERTILIZERS ON GROWTH AND YIELD OF CABBAGE PLANT

Abstract

This works has been carried out in the experimental field, Abu Ghraib region, Baghdad to investigate effect of use CeO2 (100 mg/L), NPK nanofertilizers (30g, 48g, 100g) and NPK chemical fertilizers (840g, 420g, 840g).The most important results indicated that the two types of nanofertilization treatments were superior to the chemical fertilization treatment in plant height, head weight, external leaves weight and total plant yield. The highest total plant yield was in NPK+ CeO2 NPs treatment (72 ton/ha) followed (68.704 ton/ha) in NPK nanofertilizer treatment. Plants which fertilized with NPK, NPK+CeO2 give high chlorophyll content compared to the plants that fertilized with NPK chemical fertilizers and CeO2 NPs.