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VOL. 5, ISSUE 3 (2020)
Response of growth and yield attributes of maize crop against seed priming with two different sources of zinc
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Ali Raza Malik, Mukkaram Ali Tahir, Syed Ayyaz Javed, Ali Afzal, Muhammad Abubakar Siddiq, Muhammad Tauseef Jaffar
Abstract
Maize (Zea mays L.) ranks third most important cereal crop after wheat and rice in Pakistan. Pakistani soils are mostly alkaline and calcareous in nature with micronutrient dearth. All micronutrients perform a crucial role in improving growth and yield parameters. Zinc is also limited in Pakistani alkaline soils after nitrogen and phosphorus. In order to estimate the influence of two different sources of zinc in improving maize yield and growth attributes a research was concluded in 2018 in the field of College of Agriculture, University of Sargodha. Seven treatments of zinc nutrient were applied to maize seeds with two different sources and levels of zinc concentration. A required amount of macronutrients (NPK) was applied in all treatments along with zinc seed priming. Each treatment was replicated thrice under design of R.C.B.D in field study. The applied treatments were as T1as a Control (recommended NPK), T2, T3 and T4 treatments were applied as 1%, 2% and 4% solution of zinc sulphate (ZnSO4) Similarly other source of chelated zinc (Zinc EDTA) was applied in T5, T6 and T7 as 0.5%, 1.5% and 3.0% solution respectively. Data of Growth and yield parameters was collected after laboratory analyses and interpreted for statistical analysis using statistics 8.1 software. All mean values of treatments were found to be different from each other comparatively when LSD test was applied at p≤0.05 level of significance. The results indicated that 4% solution of ZnSO4 (T4) executes best in improving growth and yield (7.99 t ha-1) attributes. Results revealed that values of all treatments were different from each other significantly.
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Pages:179-182
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Ali Raza Malik, Mukkaram Ali Tahir, Syed Ayyaz Javed, Ali Afzal, Muhammad Abubakar Siddiq, Muhammad Tauseef Jaffar "Response of growth and yield attributes of maize crop against seed priming with two different sources of zinc". International Journal of Botany Studies, Vol 5, Issue 3, 2020, Pages 179-182
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