TY - JFULL AU - Shatha A. Yousif and Qasim M. Zamil and Hasan Y. Al Muhi and Jamal A. Al Shammari PY - 2015/4/ TI - Effect of Three Sand Types on Potato Vegetative Growth and Yield T2 - International Journal of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering SP - 299 EP - 303 VL - 9 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10000837 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 99, 2015 N2 - Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is one of the major vegetable crops that are grown world –wide because of its economic importance. This experiment investigated the effect of local sands (River Base, Al-Ekader and Karbala) on number and total weight of minitubers. Statistical analysis revealed that there were no significant differences among sand cultures in number of stem/plant, chlorophyll index and tubers dry weight. River Base sand had the highest plant height (74.9 cm), leaf number/plant number (39.3), leaf area (84.4 dcm2⁄plant), dry weight/plant (26.31), tubers number/plant (8.5), tubers weight/plant (635.53 gm) and potato tuber yields/trove (28.60 kg), whereas the Karbala sand had lower performance. All the characters had positive and significant correlation with yields except the traits number of stem and tuber dry weight. ER -