Legume Research
Web of Science
  • Year: 2023
  • Volume: 46
  • Issue: 10

Influence of Plant Growth Regulators on Growth, Yield and Yield Components in Garden Pea

  • Author:
  • Rajesh Choudhary1,*, B.K. Singh2, Ashok Choudhary3, S.K. Jat4, Anita Choudhary1, R. Bajia5
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Page Number: 1366 to 1369

1Department of Horticulture, SKN Agriculture University, Jobner-303 328, Rajasthan, India

2Department of Horticulture, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221 005, Uttar Pradesh, India

3Department of Horticulture, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar-263 145, Uttarakhand, India

4Department of Plant Protection, Agriculture University, Kota-324 005, Rajasthan, India

5Department of Agriculture, Vivekananda Global University, Jaipur-303 012, Rajasthan, India

*Corresponding Author: Rajesh Choudhary, Department of Horticulture, SKN Agriculture University, Jobner-303 328, Rajasthan, India, Email: ashokchoudhary116@gmail.com

Online Published on 07 November, 2023.

Abstract

Garden pea is one of the most important legume crop which require proper crop management practices. Crop regulation is an important practices which enhancing the productivity of garden pea with higher economic return. This can be done by adopting proper application of PGRs. Therefore, the present study was designed to assess the effect of PGRs on growth and yield of garden pea.

The present study was laid out on garden pea (Pisum sativum subsp. hortense) cv. Azad Pea-3 in a randomized block design with three replications and ten treatments comprising different levels NAA, GA3 and Salicylic acid at various stages. The data on growth and yield were recorded and analyzed statistically applying the analysis of variance technique.

Results revealed that the plants treated with 120 ppm gibberellic acid showed 45.39% 38.55%, 40.60% and 32.84% increment in plant height, length of pod, width of pod and number of seeds per pod and taken lowest number of days to 50% flowering over control, respectively. The use of 40 ppm NAA exhibited maximal enhancement in number of pods per plant (57.43-68.02%), seed weight per pod and Pod yield per hectare (50.62-60.26%) over remaining treatments. Conclusively, the results suggest that foliar application of PGRs favors the growth and yield of garden pea.

Keywords

Garden pea, NAA, PGR, Plant growth regulators, Salicylic acid