Legume Research - An International Journal
Web of Science
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 39
  • Issue: 2

Mitigation of drought stress by foliar application of salicylic acid and potassium in mungbean (Vigna radiata L.)

  • Author:
  • Sadia Majeed, Muhammad Akram1,, Muhammad Latif, Muhammad Ijaz2, Mubshar Hussain2,3
  • Total Page Count: 7
  • Page Number: 208 to 214

1Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Vehari, Pakistan

2Sub-Campus Bahadur Layyah, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

3Department of Agronomy, University College of Agriculture, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

Department of Agronomy, University College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan

*Corresponding author's e-mail: akramcp@gmail.com

Online published on 30 April, 2016.

Abstract

An experiment was conducted to investigate the mitigation of drought stress by foliar application of salicylic acid and potassium in mung bean. Treatments comprised of three drought stress (control, drought stress at flowering stage and drought stress at flowering and pod formation stages) and foliar application salicylic acid (100 ppm) alone and in combination with potassium (1%). Irrigation missing at flowering stage, affected less the growth and yield as compared with irrigation missing at both flowering and pod formation stage. Exogenous application of salicylic acid and potassium could mitigate the adverse effects of drought stress significantly.

Keywords

Drought stress, Foliar spray, Mungbean, Potassium, Salicylic acid