Prof. Dr. Hamza Abbas Hamza, a teaching assistant in the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Engineering, College of Agriculture, University of Basrah, participated in the discussion of a doctoral student (Hadi Kazem Hussein) at the College of Agriculture, University of Kufa, about his thesis tagged (the effect of western bud extract, cytokinin and copper sulfate on the characteristics of vegetative growth and yield). During harvest, after harvest and after storage of fig fruits, black variety Diyala), which included spraying fig trees with three concentrations of western bud extract, cytokinin and two concentrations of copper sulfate. The aim of the thesis was to find out the effect of spraying the studied factors on improving vegetative growth and characteristics of fruits during harvest and after storage, reducing spoilage and weight loss, and maintaining their qualitative characteristics. The thesis concluded that the studied factors led to an improvement in the characteristics of quantitative and qualitative fruits, an increase in yield and a decrease in spoilage after storage. The thesis recommended the use of a concentration of 200 mg / liter of cytokinin to spray the trees of the rest of the fruit, and the use of other parts of the crow plant.
