Productivity and Pod Quality of Pea as Affected by some Growth Promoters under Early Summer Plantation

Ramadan, M. M. A.; Abd El-Wahed, M. M.; Bardisi, Enas A.

doi:10.21608/jpp.2020.87098

Productivity and Pod Quality of Pea as Affected by some Growth Promoters under Early Summer Plantation

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Hort. Res. Inst., Agric. Res. Center, Dokki, Egypt

² Hort. Dept. Fac. Agric., Zagazig University

10.21608/jpp.2020.87098

Abstract

A field experiment was carried out during the two successive early summer growing seasons of 2018 and 2019 at the Experimental Farm of El- Gemmeiza Agric. Res. Station, Gharbeya Governorate, Egypt to study the effect of foliar spray with three substances, i.e., Vitamin E (Vit.E) at 150 ppm, super Vigro –X at 1ml/L, salicylic acid (SA) at 150 ppm individually, or in combinations on plant growth, biochemical traits, pods yield and its quality of pea cv. Master B grown in clay soil. The results indicated that, spraying pea plants with Vit. E + super Vigor-X + SA three times at 20, 30 and 40 days after sowing gave the highest values of plant height , both number of leaves and branches/ plant , total dry weight/ plant , leaf chlorophyll pigments , N,P and K percentage in shoot, yield and its components and the best pod quality of pea and gave the lowest concentrations of proline amino acid and oxidase enzyme activity in shoots. Moreover, this treatment recorded increasing in total yield about 63.8 % (average two seasons) than control (unsprayed) plants Meanwhile, spraying plants with super Vigor-x +SA treatment came in the second rank in this respect.

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