Effect of priming on growth and yield of French bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)

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2019
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Dept. of Vegetable Sc., OUAT, Bhubaneswar
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An experiment entitled “Effect of Priming on growth and yield of French bean.(Phaseolus vulgaris L.)” was conducted during Rabi 2018-19 in the Vegetable Research field of Department of Vegetable Science, College of Agriculture, OUAT, Bhubaneswar. The trial was conducted in Randomized Block Design with three replications and ten treatments. The treatments were T1 (Hydro priming), T2 (GA3 50 ppm),T3 (KCl 2%),T4 (Sodium Molybdate 500 ppm) ,T5 (Vitavax 2g/kg) , T6 (Pseudomona fluorescens 10%), T7 (Trichoderma viride 10%), T8 (GA3 50 ppm+ T.viride 10%), T9 (Sodium Molybdate 500 ppm +Pseudomonas fluorescens 10%), T10 (Control) Good quality seeds of French bean variety Harsha was taken and different priming treatments were done in the laboratory followed by growing the crop in the field as per recommended package of practices. Observations on twenty two characters were taken during the experiment. It was observed that the plant height at harvest was the highest (45.91 cm) in T3 followed by 43.23 cm in T8, the number of pods per plant was highest in T3 (32.40) and T2 (30.40) compared to control (20.2). length of pod was highest with T8 (13.80 cm) followed by T2 (13.70 cm), fresh weight of one pod was highest in T3 (6.5g) followed by 6.2 g in T7, number of seeds per pod was highest in T3 (5.44) followed by T8 & T2 (5.2) and pod yield per plot was highest in T3 (11.96 kg) followed by T8 (10.98 kg). However the pod yield per hectare was highest in T3 (13.28 t/ha) followed by 12.19 t/ha in T8 and 11.86 t/ha in T2 and the lowest pod yield of 8.10 t/ha was obtained in unprimed control. However days to 1st flowering & 50% flowering were found non significant. Priming with (GA3 50 ppm + T.viride10%) was found the best in reducing leaf anthracnose and root rot by 62.9% and 75.9% respectively .Vitavax 2g/kg was the next best priming treatment which reduces anthracnose and root rot by 53.2% and 63.8% respectively. The seed quality parameters as studied in laboratory revealed the highest germination of 84.2%, seedling length of 43.00 cm, Vigour Index –Ι of 3620.6 and Vigour Index –ΙΙ of 72.41 in KCl 2%. From the present experiment it can be concluded that if (KCl 2%) is used for priming of French bean seeds it produces better yield attributing character & also record better yield of 13.28 t/ha followed by 12.19t/ha with (GA3 50 ppm+ T.viride 10%
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