Effect of phosphate fertilization, molybdenum foliar spray and rhizobium inoculation on growth and yield of chickpea

Abstract EN

A field experiment was conducted on chickpea plants (Giza 3 var) grown on a sandy soil at Ismailia Agric.

Res.

Station, Egypt during the winter season of 2005 / 2006 to study the effect of the separate treatments of phosphorus fertilizer, molybdenum foliar spray and seed inoculation with rhizobium and their combinations on plant growth, root nodulation, seed and straw yields.

The obtained data indicate that the combined application was as good as separate treating and both had significantly increases for root nodulation, vegetative growth, pod, seed and straw yields as well as the plant contents of N, P and K over the untreated control.

The individual effects of phosphate fertilization, molybdenum foliar application and rhizobium inoculation on vegetative growth and yield of chickpea arranged in ascending order were molybdenum < seed inoculation < phosphorus.

However, the highest values of plant dry weight (70 days after planting) and yield of chickpea existed in the inoculated plants which received 45 kg P2O5 + 30 g Mo / fed.