The influence of silicon fertilizers and inducing agents applied by foliar sprays on silicon content (mg/kg) of leaves of apple (Malus cv. Golden Delicious) and pear (Pyrus communis ‘Williams’ Bon Chrétien’).
| Treatment | Applez | Pearz | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 2015 | 2014 | 2015 | |
| Water (control) | 22.8a | 26.4a | 26.2a | 20.1a |
| Sil-MATRIX (10 ml liter of water) | 35.3b | 38.1b | 34.8b | 31.2b |
| Salicylaldehyde | 23.7a | 23.9a | 24.2a | 18.7a |
| Fossil (10 ml liter of water) | 36.0b | 35.2b | 35.0b | 32.8bc |
| Sirius (10 ml liter of water) | 36.5b | 39.0b | 35.6b | 34.6bc |
| Rigel (3 ml liter of water) | 33.5b | 37.2b | 33.3b | 35.5c |
| Topas (1.5 ml liter of water) | 20.1a | 24.1a | 22.8a | 19.5a |
| Treatment | 0.001 | 0.001 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
↵z Mean of ten randomized complete blocks with one tree per block. Ten leaves per tree were randomly selected throughout the crown for Si analysis.
Note: Lowercase letters indicate significant differences between means for each evaluation date by Tukey highly significance test (P = 0.05).