ABSTRACT: A field experiment was conducted for two successive seasons on artichoke (Cynara scolymus L.) treated with either the commonly used anti-fungal stumps, AF or nano-silver, NS using two sources of P i.e. rock phosphate, RP and the traditional chemical calcium super phosphate, SP under inoculation with or without Vessicular Arbuscular Mycorrhizas (VAM) (Glomus mosseae). Results revealed that VAM improved the effectiveness of the RP treatment and that the treatment RP + VAM recorded the highest plant growth, and total yield beside of improving the quality of heads than those attained by SP + AF. On the other hand, pre-planting with NS resulted in vigor growth, higher yield and head quality compared with AF. Thus, using RP + VAM + NS is the recommended practice to attain good growth parameters and achieve early and high total yield with better quality of heads. The increases in yield resulted from using this particular treatment were about 20.3 and 18.6 % as an average in both seasons for total yield per plant and per feddan, respectively, higher than the corresponding ones resulted from using SP + AF in the two growing seasons.
KEYWORDS: Globe Artichoke, Vesicular Arbuscular Mycorrhizae (VAM), Nano-Silver (NS), Anti-Fungai (AF), Rock Phosphate (RP), Calcium Super Phosphate (SP)