1Department of Life Sciences, Baghdad-ul-Jadeed Campus, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, 63100, Pakistan
2Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid-I-Azam University Islamabad, 45320, Pakistan
3Biological Control of Plant Diseases, Department of Plant Pathology, Federal University of Lavras, University Campus, CP3037, Lavras, MG, Brazil
4Department of Forestry, Range and Wildlife, Baghdad-ul-Jadeed Campus, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, 63100, Pakistan
Department of Life Sciences, Baghdad-ul-Jadeed Campus, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, 63100, Pakistan
*Corresponding author's e-mail: Abdul_pk@yahoo.com
Online published on 27 September, 2019.
A field experiment was conducted at Agriculture Research Station Bahawalpur (Pakistan) during Kharif, 2016 to evaluate the response of cluster bean against bio and chemical fertilizers. The treatments consisted of three levels of nitrogen (urea 75g, 85g and 95g/40g seeds) with three level of Rhizobium (1.5g, 2.0g and 2.5g/40g of seeds). The experiment arranged in a randomized complete block design with 16 treatments and three replications. Combine treatment of urea and Rhizobium resulted in maximum plant height, number of pods/plants, number of seeds/pod, 1000 seeds weight, yield/plant, and chlorophyll content. Similarly, application of 2.5g rhizobium and 85g of urea separately resulted in highest number of leaves. Our results concluded that the use of urea and rhizobium in consortium could be a potential agronomic practice for the production of high grain yield in cluster bean.
Cluster bean, Growth, Rhizobium, Seed yield, Urea
