CHERRY TOMATO CULTIVATION UNDER DIFFERENT LEVELS OF IRRIGATION WATER SALINITY AND ROOT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

The use of saline water is a challenge modern agriculture since the this type reduces crop quality and yield. From perspective, study aimed to analyze performance cherry tomato under different levels irrigation salinity partial root-zone irrigation. experiment was conducted in plant nursery at Engineering Agricultural Sciences Campus Federal University Alagoas, Rio Largo, Brazil. experimental design completely randomized, 4 x 2 factorial arrangement corresponding four (0.5 (control), 1.5, 2.5, 3.5 dS m-¹) two root management systems (with without system division), with five replications. plants were evaluated for growth, dry mass accumulation, m-1 intensely height, number fruits, shoot tomato. fresh reduced by division. However, treatment increased height fruits per plant. Root division mitigates deleterious effects up electrical conductivity 1.5 m-1, especially on fruit