Molecular Biology Study on Plants Biofertilized with Water Hyacinth | ||
| Research Journal of Applied Biotechnology | ||
| Article 3, Volume 1, Issue 2, November 2015, Pages 26-33 PDF (250.55 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/rjab.2015.104418 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Asmaa M. A. Nour1; Reham M. Abd El-Azeem2; Nashwa M. H. Rizk2; Sabah F. El-Abd1 | ||
| 1Molecular Biology Department, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Research Institute, University of Sadat City, Sadat city, Egypt | ||
| 2Environmental Biotechnology Department, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Research Institute, University of Sadat City, Sadat city, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Despite water hyacinth (Eichhorniacrassipes) has become the world’s worst invasive aquatic weed due to its rapid proliferation rate. It has demonstrated abilities to be used as a raw material in various useful applications. In this study, shredded dried water hyacinth was used as biofertilizer for tomato plants. Five concentrations of water hyacinth (10,20,30,40 and 50%) were added to soil consisted of three parts sand and one part peat moss. The 15 days tomato seedlings were collected where; Peroxidase enzyme activity and profiling of nine RAPD primers out of 10 were studied. The enzyme activity was increased in parallel with water hyacinth concentration in the soil. On the other hand the RAPD profiles showed no variations between all treatments and the control. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Water hyacinth; Biofertilizer; Tomato seedling; Peroxidase; RAPD | ||
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