Effect Seed Soaking of Moringa Leaf Extract on Grain Yield and its Component of Three Bread Wheat Cultivars

Abstract

The experiment was carried out at Research Station of College of Agriculture Engineering University of Baghdad/AL-Jadiriya during 2022-2023 season to study the effect of seed soaking with Moringa leaf extract (MLE) on grain yield and its component of three bread wheat cultivars. A split-plots arrangement according to RCBD was used with three replications. The first factor was bread wheat cultivars (Rasheed, Buhooth 22, Buhooth 10) as a main plots, and the second factor was soaking of wheat seeds with three concentrations (1%, 3%, 5% in addition to 0% tap water as control) as sub-plots. The results showed that cultivar Rasheed gave highest means for number of spikes (388m-2), number of spikelets (23.49 spikelets spike-1), weight of 1000 grain (40.55 g), and grain yield (4.012 t h-1). In addition, the results showed that soak wheat seeds with 3% gave highest means for number of spikelets (23.08 spikelets spike-1), number of grains per spike (51.07 grains spikes-1), weight of 1000 grain (41.71g) and grain yield (4.255 t h-1). The interaction between cultivars and MLE concentrations it was significant in all studied traits except for the number of spikes.