RESPONSE OF THREE VARIETIES OF BROAD BEAN (Vicia faba L.) TO NP MINERAL FERTILIZER

Fathel.F.R.Ibraheem Ibraheem

doi:10.33899/magrj.2021.128746.1085

Abstract

To solve the problem of the shortage broad bean crop production in the governorate of Nineveh. The study was carried out between the Horticulture Department, College of Agriculture and forestry, University of Mosul, and the Director of Nineveh Agriculture, to know the effect of two factors: first factor was three varieties of broad beans (local, Spanish and Italian) ,the second factor was three levels of mineral fertilizer NP (0. 300 and 400 kg. ha-1) . The experiment consist of nine treatments. It designed according to Randomized Complete Block Design with Split-plot arrangement with three replicates. Analysis of variance carried out according to Duncan's multiple range test at 0.05. Results showed the Spanish variety gave significant superiority in the number of pods, seeds, and seed yields compared to the other varieties except for the number of pods that did not differ significantly with the local variety. 300 and 400 kg. ha-1 levels of mineral fertilizer caused a significant increase in all studied parametersbut there was no significant effect between 300 kg. ha-1 and control. Most effects of interaction treatments showed similar effects as a single factor for every mentioned characters RESPONSE OF THREE VARIETIES OF BROAD BEAN (Vicia faba L.) TO NP MINERAL FERTILIZER

Highlights

Broad bean (Vicia faba L.) plant is one of the important crops of vegetables in terms of food and health and the importance of this plant comes because its green or dry seeds contain a large amount of protein and essential amino acids such as arginine and lysine in addition to the richness of seeds with carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals beneficial to health and bone building (Yacoub and Namr, 2011)
Allela et al, (2019) found that the local variety of broad bean gave a significant increase in plant height as compared to Turkish and French
It is concluded in this study that the best variety that can be adopted in the governorate of Nineveh is the Spanish variety, due to its significant superiority in the number of pods, their weight, the number and weight of seeds compared to other varieties

Summary

INTRODUCTION

Broad bean (Vicia faba L.) plant is one of the important crops of vegetables in terms of food and health and the importance of this plant comes because its green or dry seeds contain a large amount of protein and essential amino acids such as arginine and lysine in addition to the richness of seeds with carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals beneficial to health and bone building (Yacoub and Namr, 2011). Hashemabadi (2013) found that broad bean plants which treated with phosphorus fertilizer (P2O5) at four levels (0,40,80 and 120 k.h -1) showed significant increase in plant branch number, pods number, seeds number, weight of seeds and total yield especially when using 80 and 120 k.h-1 of fertilizer. An experiment carried out by Abou-Amer et al, (2014), the experiment included a study of the effect of mineral fertilizer NP at one level N fertilizer that is 60 kg.acre-1 plus four levels of phosphorus P2O5 which are 0, 30, 45 and 60 k.acre-1 These results showed that the highest significant values in the characteristics of the number of pods, the number of branches, the weight and the number of seeds of the pods.plant-1 when using the fertilizer, nitrogen added to level 60 kg.acre-1 of P2O5.

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