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Book of Abstracts First Legume Society Conference 2013: A Legume Odyssey Novi Sad, Serbia, 9-11 May 2013
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Impact of synthetic and bio-fertilizers on yield of mungbean (Vigna radiata L.)
Fahd Rasul, M Nadeem, M Umer, A Wajid, T Khaliq
Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
Mungbean is the second most important pulse of Pakistan; it fixes atmospheric nitrogen to
improve soil fertility as nodules are present in roots of mungbean. It contains essential amino
acid such as lysine present in high amount that increases the efficiency of mungbean as compared
to other pulses. An experiment to evaluate the impact of nitrogen and phosphorus levels in
combination with inoculum sources on yield and quality of Mungbean (Vigna radiata L.)was
conducted in 2012. Response of mungbean (Vigna radiata L.) cultivar NM-2011 with net plot size
of 5.0 m × 2.4 m was studied in field condition. Factor A was Nitrogen + Inoculation
combinations with three levels [ A 1 = N (24 kg ha -1 ), A 2 = Inoculation and A 3 = N (24 kg ha -1 ) +
Inoculation] and Factor B Phosphorus + Humiphos combinations with 4 levels [B 1 = P (50 kg
ha -1 ), B 2 = Humiphos (24.7 kg ha -1 ), B 3 = P (50 kg ha -1 ) + Humiphos (24.7 kg ha -1 ), B 4 = P (25kg
ha -1 ) + Humiphos (24.7kg ha -1 )] and treatments were repeated thrice. The yield data was recorded
by adopting the standard procedures. Yield components like number of nodules per plant,
number of pods per plant, number of seeds per pod, 1000-grain weight (g), grain yield (kg ha -1 ),
harvest index(%) were significantly increased when combination of N (24 kg ha -1 ) + Inoculation
was used and were also significantly increased when combination of P (50 kg ha -1 ) + Humiphos
(24.7 kg ha -1 ) was used.
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