ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Plant Sci.
Sec. Plant Nutrition
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpls.2025.1636319
The magic of seaweed (Ascophyllum nodosum) extract in influencing the dynamics of yield, quality and storage behavior of garlic
Provisionally accepted
Aniket Mandal1
Amit Baran Sharangi1*Lamya Ahmed Al-Keridis2Safia Obaidur Rab3Nawaf Alshammari4
Mohd Saeed4Mamdouh Alshammari4Nadiyah M. Alabdallahd5- 1Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Haringhata, India
- 2Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- 3King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia
- 4University of Hail, Hail, Saudi Arabia
- 5Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
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Since prehistoric times, garlic is one of the leading spices extensively cultivated for its flavour, pungency and medicinal values. Organo sulphur compounds viz., Allicin and diallyl disulfide are responsible for numerous medicinal properties. Among quite a few natural and synthetic substances, biostimulants have rewarding effects on garlic growth, stress tolerance, yield and productivity. Ascophyllum nodosum (seaweed) is such an inimitable biostimulant extensively used in garlic. The current study was conducted during two years at BCKV-Agricultural University, India to evaluate the effect of A. nodosum. Six different garlic genotypes including one local variety Goldana and 3 doses of A. nodosum were considered to study various morphological, yield attributing and quality parameters and their inter relationship with weather variables and the storage behaviour. The experiment revealed that AVT-1GNB-23-41 was the best among all the genotypes. The treatment AVT-1GNB-23-41×seaweed@1ml/L gave the maximum plant height (73.07cm),leaf width(2.32cm), polar & equatorial diameter (35.45, 36.33mm),clove length (2.64 cm), cloves/bulb (30.95), weight of bulb (18.87g), total yield (7.02t/ha) compared to others. AVT-1GNB-23-41 genotype showed highest TSS (30.83ᵒBrix), phenol (159.65mg GAE/100g) while ascorbic acid (14.74mg/100g) was maximum in AVT-1GNB-23-26. In case of correlation study, bright sunshine hours and total rainfall had positive and negative correlations with total yield. L* and b* values decreased with advancement of storage but a* value was increased upto certain time and then decreased. On storage point of view, the treatment AVT-1GNB-23-47×seaweed@1ml/L was superior with lowest physiological weight loss at 36 DAS.
Keywords: Garlic, Allium sativum L., Seaweed, Ascophyllum nodosum, Growth, yield, quality
Received: 27 May 2025; Accepted: 27 Aug 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Mandal, Sharangi, Al-Keridis, Rab, Alshammari, Saeed, Alshammari and Alabdallahd. 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: Amit Baran Sharangi, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Haringhata, India
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