ارزیابی عملکرد کمی و کیفی بابونه تحت تأثیر حاصلخیزکننده‌های مختلف خاک

In order to study the effect of soil fertilizers on flower and essential oil yield of chamomile as a medicinal plant, an experiment was conducted based on a randomized complete block design with four replications at the Agricultural Research Station College of Agriculture, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad during growing season of 2009-2010. Treatments were chemical fertilizer, mycorrhiza, biological fertilizer and biological fertilizer+ mycorrhiza. Studied traits were fresh and dry flower yields and essential oil yield of chamomile. The results showed that the effect of fertilizer treatments were significant (p≤0.01) on fresh and dry weight of flower and essential oil yield of chamomile. The highest fresh and dry flower yields were observed in mycorrhiza+biofertilizer with 22883.33 and 5532.67 kg.ha-1, respectively. So, it seems that integrated application of mycorrhiza+ biofertilizer could be considered as an integrated application for growth and yield enhancement of this valuable medicinal plant.