Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry
Vol. 7, Special Issue 1 (2018)
Effect of apical pruning and foliar spray of potassium nitrate on seed yield and oil content of <em>Jatropha curcas</em> L. in agroclimatic zone of Jharkhand
Author(s):
Diwakar Prasad Nirala, Animesh Sinha, Jai Kumar, Debiprasad Mukherjee, Bardani, Rajneesh Kumar and Manish Kumar
Abstract:
This experiment was conducted to study the effect of apical pinching and foliar spray of potassium nitrate on the five year old plant at Nagri field, 7 km away from the Institute of Forest Productivity, Ranchi, Jharkhand during 2016-2017. Nine treatments (three doses of potassium nitrate combined with each of three doses of pinching off treatments) with two replications in spit-plot design experiment was used. The maximum fruits and seeds number per plant (398.00 fruits/plant and 860.75 seeds/plant) was found in Treatment-6 (Pinching of 10 cm with foliar spray of 2% potassium nitrate) and least (192.00 fruits/plant and 359.25 seeds/plant) in Treatment-8 (Pinching of 5 cm with foliar spray of 4% potassium nitrate). The maximum oil content (56.19%) was reported from the treatment-9 (Pinching of 10 cm with foliar spray of 4% potassium nitrate) and least (37.81%) was found in the Treatment-4 (only foliar spray of 4% potassium nitrate). Higher concentration of potassium nitrate increases the oil content and decreases the yield and lower concentration increases the yield with constant oil content.
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Diwakar Prasad Nirala, Animesh Sinha, Jai Kumar, Debiprasad Mukherjee, Bardani, Rajneesh Kumar and Manish Kumar. Effect of apical pruning and foliar spray of potassium nitrate on seed yield and oil content of <em>Jatropha curcas</em> L. in agroclimatic zone of Jharkhand. J Pharmacogn Phytochem 2018;7(1S):1177-1180.