1Department of Agriculture, G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar-400 075, Uttarakhand, India
10School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Sanskriti University, Mathura-281 401, Uttar Pradesh, India
2Department of Soil Science and Agriculture Chemistry, Tamil Nadu Agriculture University, Coimbatore-641 003, Tamil Nadu, India
3Department of Botany, Dhanauri PG College, Dhanauri, Haridwar-247 667, Uttarakhand, India
4Taqgene Training and Research Institute, Kotra Santoor Road, Dehradun-248 007, Uttarakhand, India
5Department of Biotechnology, GLA University, Mathura-281 406, Uttar Pradesh, India
6Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Agra-282 004, Uttar Pradesh, India
7School of Allied and Health Sciences, MVN University, Palwal-121 105, Haryana, India
8Department of Horticulture, B.M. College of Agriculture, RVSKVV, Khandwa-450 001, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India
9Department of Bioinformatics, Pathfinder Research and Training Foundation, Greater Noida-201 308, Uttar Pradesh, India
*Corresponding Authors: Siddharth Shankar Bhatt, Department of Agriculture, G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar-400 075, Uttarakhand, India, Email: siddharthbhatt2714@gmail.com
**Kundan Kumar Chaubey, School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Sanskriti University, Mathura-281 401, Uttar Pradesh, India, kundan2006chaubey@gmail.com
Online published on 22 November, 2024.
Pea (Pisum sativum L.) is one of the most important legume grown all over the world with its varied uses as vegetables and other processed products. Its production and productivity in recent times have witnessed a diminishing graph due to numerous biotic and abiotic stresses. With unexploited use of synthetics in legume crops number of nodule formation have reduced to lowest levels. VAM (Vesicular Arbuscular Mycorrhiza) and PSB (Phosphate Solubilizing Bacteria) inoculation in soil have been observed in enhancing number of nodules, levels of NPK uptake and yield in pea.
Considering the importance of above facts and experiment was laid in 2022 with RBD with three replications containing 7 treatments viz. T1 (Control), T2 (75% RDF + 25% PSB), T3 (50% RDF + 50% PSB), T4 (75% RDF + 25% VAM), T5 (50% RDF + 50% VAM), T6 (75% RDF + 12.5% VAM + 12.5% PSB) and T7 (50% RDF + 25% VAM + 25% PSB).
Investigations indicated that the treatment T7 (50% RDF + 25 % VAM + 25% PSB) showed significantly high growth, yield and quality like plant height (113.90 cm), number of leaves (87.09), number of branches (20.2), number of nodules (90.56), numbers of pod/plant (19.1), pod length (8.97 cm), number of seeds per pod (8.23), green pod yield/plot (4.80 kg), green pod yield/ha (80.12 q) compared to control. Hence, T7 (50% RDF + 25% VAM + 25% PSB) evidently exhibited a conglomeration of bio nutrient uptake enhancers resulting in maximum yield and quality.
Biofertilizer, Growth, Pea, PSB, VAM, Yield
