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VOL. 6, ISSUE 1 (2021)
Effects of different foliar applications and soil applied fertilizers on growth and yield of Vigna radiata L.
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Shadeeka Sandeepani, Somasundaram Sutharsan, Shanmugalingam Srikrishnah
Abstract
Foliar application is method of providing supplementary dosages of minor and major nutrient, plant hormones, and other beneficial elements to plant. Fruit tonic, Jeewamirtha and Maxicrop™ are organic liquid fertilizers. A polybag experiment was conducted at the Crop Farm, UCIARS, Hambanthota in Sri Lanka to identify the Effects of Different Foliar Applications and Soil Applied Fertilizers on Growth and Yield of Vigna radiata L. The experiment was laid out in Factorial Randomized Complete Block Design with six treatments and six replicates. The treatments were F1M1, F1M2, F1M3, F2M1, F2M2, and F2M3 tested their performance on the growth and yield of Vigna radiata L. The crop performance was recorded from two weeks after planting (WAP) to eight WAP. Among the treatments, both treatments which F1M1 (Maxicrop™ foliar application with soil applied DOA fertilizer) and F1M2 (Maxicrop™ foliar application with soil applied Jeewamirtha) significantly increased growth and yield of Vigna radiata L. The interaction effect between foliar application and soil applied fertilizer also significantly increased plant height, mean number of leaves, number of branches per plant, fresh weight of shoot, fresh weight of root, number of flowers and number of pods per plant, number of root nodules, number of seeds and 100 seeds weight and total yield per plant in comparison to other treatments. In the overall performance, application of Maxicrop™ produce higher result compared to the foliar application of fruit tonic. This might be due to presence of macro and micronutrients as well as growth promoting substances like IAA, GA and Cytokine in Jeewamirtha and maxi crop.From the findings it could be concluded that, application of soil applied Jeewamirtha with Maxicrop™ could be recommended for green gram cultivation as an environmentally friendly practice to improve growth and yield.
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Pages:34-38
How to cite this article:
Shadeeka Sandeepani, Somasundaram Sutharsan, Shanmugalingam Srikrishnah "Effects of different foliar applications and soil applied fertilizers on growth and yield of <em>Vigna radiata</em> L.". International Journal of Botany Studies, Vol 6, Issue 1, 2021, Pages 34-38
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