Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur 313 001.
* Corresponding author.
1Present address: Senior Research Fellow (Jatropha Project-Agronomy), Department of FMPE, CTAE, Udaipur. email: drmenaria@gmail.com
2Present address: Zonal Director Research, ARS, Udaipur.
A field experiment was conducted during the year 2002–03 and 2003–04 at Instructional Farm, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, Udaipur. The results revealed that planting of fennel at a density of 27.77 thousand plants ha−1 produced seeds which were superior in chlorophyll content, appearance and total soluble sugars over the seed obtained from the densities of 55.55 and 83.33 thousand plant ha−1. Application of 90 kg N + 40 kg P2O5 + 20 K2O + 20 kg S + 5 kg Zn ha−1 (NPKZnS) produced seeds, superior in all quality parameters over the NPK, NPKS and NPKZn treatments. Application of NAA at 100 ppm and BA at 10 ppm significantly improved total chlorophyll content, total soluble sugars, protein content and volatile oil content of fennel seeds over water sprays.
Benzyl adenine, Fennel, fertilizers, growth regulators, naphthalene acetic acid, plant density
