Vol. 9, Issue 10 (2020)

Author(s):
Vikas Verma, CL Maurya, PS Negi, Madan Maurya and Sourabh Tomar

Abstract:
An experiment was designed to find out the influence of different doses of zinc and sulphur on yield and seed quality of Indian mustard variety Urvashi. The field experiment and laboratory experiment was conducted in Split Plot Design with three replications during 2011-12 & 2012-13 on Indian mustard variety Urvashi at New Dairy Farm, Kalyanpur, Kanpur and Seed Testing Laboratory of Department of Seed Science and Technology, respectively. Six doses of zinc and sulphur viz. 0.0, 2.5, 5.0, 7.5, 10.0, 12.5 Kg ha^-1 and 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 Kg ha^-1, respectively were applied as basal dose. Observations were recorded on interaction effect of seed yield and seed quality parameters. Results showed that the application of zinc and sulphur affected significantly to all parameters. The interaction zinc and sulphur did not show significant effect on days to 50% flowering, number of siliquae plant^-1, number of seeds siliqua^-1, days taken to maturity, raw seed yield Kg plot^-1, graded seed yield Kg plot^-1, raw seed yield Kg ha^-1, graded seed yield Kg ha^-1, 1000-seed weight. However, rest of the characters was affected by the application of zinc and sulphur.