Correlational Study on the Relationship between Plant Growth, Seed Yield and Quality Related Traits in Palak under Bundelkhand Region

Author: Imamuddin Shah, A.C. Mishra, R.K. Singh, Neelima Rawat, Hitaishi Kuriyal, Vinay Kumar, Raju Ratan Yadav and Kuldeep

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Abstract

An experiment was conducted at the Vegetable Research Farm of the College of Horticulture, BUAT, Banda during the Rabi (October-March) season of 2020-21 to determine the relationship between the characteristics affecting plant growth, seed yield and quality in Palak. Bundelkhand is a drought-prone region with water scarcity and high temperatures, water tankers and tanks were used for irrigation. The experiment used a Factorial Randomize Block Design with two variables: row spacings (S) and micronutrient treatments (M). The first factor, row spacings, included 30 × 10 cm (S1), 40 × 10 cm (S2), and 50×10 cm (S3) treatments, while the second factor, micronutrient application, included four treatments: no micronutrients (M0), Zink Sulphate Monohydrate @ 20kg/ha (M1), Disodium Octaborate Tetrahydrate@ 20kg/ha (M2) and an equal quantity of each Zink Sulphate Monohydrate, Disodium Octaborate Tetrahydrate with a commercial formulation containing Zn, Fe, Cu and Mn @10kg/ha (M3) in variety of Palak (All Green). The treatments under both the factors were applied in all possible combinations in three replications. Correlation coefficient values indicated that seed yield showed either non-significant positive or negative correlation with all the parameters of plant growth, seed yield and seed quality. In contrast, the major seed quality parameter i.e., germination percentage displayed significant positive correlation with most of the traits viz., plant height, dry weight of plants, days to 50% flowering, number of spikes per plant, spikelet length, spike length, 100 seed weight, seedling dry weight, seedling root length, seedling shoot length, total seedling length, seedling vigour index-I and seedling vigour index-II.

Keywords

Palak, Correlation, Micronutrients, Spacings, Yield.

Conclusion

Correlation coefficient values indicated that seed yield showed either non-significant positive or negative correlation with all the parameters of plant growth, seed yield and seed quality. Contrarily, the principal seed quality parameter i.e., germination percentage exhibited significant positive correlation with most of characters viz., plant height, dry weight of plants, days to 50% flowering, number of spikes per plant, spikelet length, spike length, 100 seed weight, seedling dry weight, seedling root length, seedling shoot length, total seedling length, seedling vigour index-I and seedling vigour index-II.

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Imamuddin Shah, A.C. Mishra, R.K. Singh, Neelima Rawat, Hitaishi Kuriyal, Vinay Kumar, Raju Ratan Yadav and Kuldeep (2023). Correlational Study on the Relationship Between Plant Growth, Seed Yield and Quality Related Traits in Palak under Bundelkhand Region. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 15(9): 665-669.