EFFECT OF PHOSPHATE FERTILIZATION, MOLYBDENUM FOLIAR SPRAY AND RHIZOBIUM INOCULATION ON GROWTH AND YIELD OF CHICKPEA

Fathi, Abdel Moniem I.; Moussa, Samir A.M.; Hegazi, Ibrahim M.A.

doi:10.21608/fjard.2007.197523

EFFECT OF PHOSPHATE FERTILIZATION, MOLYBDENUM FOLIAR SPRAY AND RHIZOBIUM INOCULATION ON GROWTH AND YIELD OF CHICKPEA

Document Type : Research articles.

Authors

Soils, Water and Environ. Res. Inst., Agric. Res. Center, Giza, Egypt

10.21608/fjard.2007.197523

Abstract

A field experiment was conducted on chickpea plants (Giza 3
var) grown on a sandy soil at Ismailia Agric. Res. Station, Egypt
during the winter season of 2005/2006 to study the effect of the
separate treatments of phosphorus fertilizer, molybdenum foliar
spray and seed inoculation with rhizobium and their combinations on
plant growth, root nodulation, seed and straw yields.
The obtained data indicate that the combined application was
as good as separate treating and both had significantly increases for
root nodulation, vegetative growth, pod, seed and straw yields as
well as the plant contents of N, P and K over the untreated control.
The individual effects of phosphate fertilization, molybdenum foliar
application and rhizobium inoculation on vegetative growth and yield
of chickpea arranged in ascending order were molybdenum < seed
inoculation < phosphorus. However, the highest values of plant dry
weight (70 days after planting) and yield of chickpea existed in the
inoculated plants which received 45 kg P2O5 + 30 g Mo/fed.

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