Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry
Vol. 6, Issue 2 (2017)
Evaluation of the phytochemical and GC-MS analysis of the aqueous seed extract of Aframomum melegueta
Author(s):
Agim CS, Nosiri CI, Anyanwu Chukwuma and Atasie Okechukwu
Abstract:
A field experiment was conducted during the rainy (
kharif) seasons of 2010 and 2011 at Rajasthan College of Agriculture, Udaipur, to study the effect of micronutrients on yield and nutrient uptake in sorghum [
Sorghum bicolour (L.) Moench]. The experiment consisted of 24 treatment combinations and replicated three times in split plot design. The results showed that methods of micronutrient application through combined soil+foliar spray significantly increased grain (14.15 and 12.13%), stover (10.75 and 8.60%) and biological yields (11.37 and 9.31%) over soil and foliar application, respectively. The results show that application of Fe+ Zn+ B along with RDF proved its superiority over rest of treatments, however, combined application of two micronutrients were also significantly higher over alone nutrient application. Combined application of micronutrient (Fe+ Zn+ B) was significantly increased grain (25.33 %), stover (15.44 %) and biological yield (17.42 %) over control. The combined applications of soil + foliar application significantly uptake of N, P & K by 14.12 & 11.75%, 13.98 & 10.86% and 12.33 & 9.57% over soil and foliar application, respectively. Improvement of N, P and K uptake with RDF+ Fe+ Zn+ B was noticed of 33.25, 33.14 & 18.51 per cent over control. Micronutrient significantly improvement of Zn, (47.90, 18.32 %) Fe (30.20, 16.11%) and B (25.60, 19.75%) uptake were also noticed with soil + foliar and (Fe+ Zn+ B) over control.
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Agim CS, Nosiri CI, Anyanwu Chukwuma and Atasie Okechukwu. Evaluation of the phytochemical and GC-MS analysis of the aqueous seed extract of Aframomum melegueta. J Pharmacogn Phytochem 2017;6(2):101-104.