Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Effect of Phosphate Solubilizing Bacteria (PSB), Farmyard Manure and Phosphorus on Growth and Yield of Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.).

Manjitinder S. Deol, Punjab Agricultural University, # 15, Kiratnagar, Faridkot, PIN-151203, Punjab, Faridkot, India and Charanjit S. Kahlon, Louisiana State University, 3550 Nicolson Drive, Apartment Number 1102, Baton Rouge, LA 70802.

A field experiment was conducted during rabi seasons of 2004-05 and 2005-06 at Crop Research Centre, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar to study the effect of FYM, phosphorus and PSB on growth, yield and quality of lentil (lens culinaris Medik.). Treatments comprised of different levels of FYM ( 0 t and 5 t/ha), phosphorous ( 0, 20 and 40 kg P2O5 ha-1) and inoculation ( no inoculation and PSB inoculation). Twelve treatment combinations were replicated four times in a randomized block design. Most of the growth parameters and yield attributes shows increasing trend with the use of treatments. The grain yield was affected significantly due to levels of FYM and phosphorus. Application of FYM (5 t /ha) produced significantly higher yield than control during both the years. It was 6.3% and 26.9% higher in 2004-05 and 2005-06, respectively. Increase in grain yield by 20 kg P2O5 over control was 5.83% and 13.3% during 2004-05 and 2005-06, respectively. Phosphorus @ 40 kg P2O5/ha recorded increase in grain yield over control by 14.3% and 26.2% during 2004-05 and 2005-06, respectively. PSB inoculation increased the yield by 3.97% and 7.07% during 2004-05 and 2005-06, respectively.