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Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry

Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry

Vol. 7, Issue 6 (2018)

Effect of sowing dates and season on physical seed quality of soybean

Author(s):

HS Deshmukh, VR Shelar and MP Deshmukh

Abstract:
The present investigation was undertaken for analyzing the effect of different season and sowing dates on physical seed quality of soybean. Soybean was sown in three season viz. Kharif, Rabi and summer. The four sowing dates in each season were used as main treatments whereas varieties Phule Agrani (V1), JS-335 (V2) and KS-103 (V3) were used as sub treatments. The present investigation was carried out at Post Graduate Institute, Department of Agricultural Botany, Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri, Dist. Ahmednagar (M.S.) during 2015-2016.
In the experiment, observations viz. seed diameter, area of seed, seed perimeter, length of seed and width of seed were recorded. Results revealed that all the characters were significantly affected by sowing dates, varieties and their interaction effect in Kharif, Rabi and summer season. The highest values for physical seed quality characters in Kharif were recorded in the crop sown on June 1st followed by 15th January in summer and 15th October in Rabi season. Variety JS-335 (V2) had higher physical seed quality in all the three season, irrespective of variety. The most optimum off season date of planting of soybean was January 15th in summer and October 15th in Rabi season.

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How to cite this article:
HS Deshmukh, VR Shelar and MP Deshmukh. Effect of sowing dates and season on physical seed quality of soybean. J Pharmacogn Phytochem 2018;7(6):881-883.

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