ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Plant Sci.

Sec. Plant Nutrition

Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpls.2025.1584608

This article is part of the Research TopicOptimizing Fertilizer and Irrigation for Specialty Crops Using Precision Agriculture TechnologiesView all 10 articles

By promoting growth and development, castor bean meal biofertilizer improves the yield and quality of Tartary buckwheat and indirectly improves the growth and development of Tartary buckwheat sprouts

Provisionally accepted
LI  MingJingLI MingJing1Hu  XuemeiHu Xuemei1LUO  RuiLUO Rui1zhang  chunhuazhang chunhua1hu  ruimeihu ruimei1xue  guibinxue guibin1Li  GuoruiLi Guorui1Di  JianjunDi Jianjun1Wang  ChengWang Cheng1Gu  xiaohuiGu xiaohui1Su  ZhiminSu Zhimin1Li  RuixinLi Ruixin1Zhao  YongZhao Yong2*Huang  FenglanHuang Fenglan1*
  • 1Inner Mongolia University for Nationalities, Tongliao, China
  • 2BaiCheng Normal University, Baicheng, China

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Fertilizer selection and application is closely related to crop yield and quality. Tartary buckwheat is a medicinal and food crops, has a broad space for development. However, the effect of castor bean meal biofertilizer on the growth and development, yield and quality of tartary buckwheat and tartary buckwheat buds is not clear. The aim of this study was to elucidate the effect of castor bean meal biofertilizer on tartary buckwheat yield and quality, and then to elucidate the effect of castor bean meal biofertilizer indirectly on tartary buckwheat bud yield and quality. Tong buckwheat 3 as the test material, in 2 years of field trials, no fertilizer, chemical fertilizer and cow manure as a control, a total of 10 types of fertilizer treatment, respectively, CK (0 kg•ha -1 ), F1, F2, F3 (fertilizer, 225, 300, 375kg•ha -1 ); N1, N2, N3 (cow manure, 7500, 15000, 22500kg•ha -1 ); B1, B2, B3(Castor bean meal biofertilizer, 7500, 15000, 22500kg•ha -1 ). The results showed that: (1) under different fertilizer treatments, tartary buckwheat plant height, stem thickness, the number of main stem nodes, the number of main stem branches, leaf area and chlorophyll content; single plant grain weight, thousand grain weight and yield of castor bean meal biofertilizer treatment is good, and in the B2 treatment to reach the maximum value. (2) under different fertilizer treatments, tartary buckwheat protein, starch, cellulose, fat, flavonoid fractions and bioflavonoids are B2 treatment when the highest content. (3) Different fertilization treatments of tartary buckwheat cultivated tartary buckwheat buds bud length, fresh weight and dry weight there are significant differences. Tartary buckwheat buds in the 0-16d free amino acids, soluble sugars, total phenols, vitamin C and bioflavonoids content of tartary buckwheat seeds in the B2 treatment of tartary buckwheat cultivated tartary buckwheat buds of the best indicators. In short, this study provides a new fertilization option to improve tartary buckwheat yield and quality.

Keywords: Castor bean meal biofertilizer, Tartary buckwheat, Tartary buckwheat sprouts, yield, quality

Received: 27 Feb 2025; Accepted: 07 May 2025.

Copyright: © 2025 MingJing, Xuemei, Rui, chunhua, ruimei, guibin, Guorui, Jianjun, Cheng, xiaohui, Zhimin, Ruixin, Yong and Fenglan. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence:
Zhao Yong, BaiCheng Normal University, Baicheng, 137099, China
Huang Fenglan, Inner Mongolia University for Nationalities, Tongliao, China

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