National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692 Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
A field experiment was conducted at Agricultural Research Farm, Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Utlou, Bishnupur District, Manipur, India during the year 2018-2019 to study the effect of salicylic acid and potassium nitrate on growth and yield of lentil under rainfed condition. Seed priming with salicylic acid (200 ppm) enhanced the plant height, number of branches, fresh and dry weight and number of nodules per plant and yield attributes namely number of pods per plant and seeds per pod. Foliar spray of KNO3 (2.0 %) foliar application significantly enhanced the growth attributes of lentil for all the growth stages except for 30 days after sowing (DAS). Yield attributes namely number of pods per plant, number of seeds per pod and yield of lentil increased significantly by application of KNO3 (1.5%). The treatment combination of salicylic acid (200 ppm) and KNO3 (1.5%) gave the maximum grain yield (1104.88 kg/ha), stover yield (1799.06 kg/ha) and biomass yield (2903.95 kg/ha). It can be inferred that seed priming of salicylic acid (200 ppm) and foliar application of potassium nitrate (2.0 % and 1.5%) increases the growth and yield of lentil.
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