role of foliar fertilization on the growth and productivity of pea [pisum sativum L.] plants cultivated under different sowing methods

ABSTRACT

Two field experiments were carried out at the Experimental Station of the National Research Centre, during 1993 and 1994 seasons to study the response of pea [Pisum sativum L.] plants to the treatments of foliar fertilizers under different sowing methods. The obtained important results are as follows Wide sowing of pea, i.e. 2 lines/ridge resulted the highest plant growth characters, i.e. the higher number of leaves, dry weight of shoots number of pods/plant and average pod weight. In spite of this the more early as well as the total pod yield were obtained with the dense sowing, i.e. 3 lines/ridge. Within the used mineral fertilizers, ammonium nitrate [33.5 percent] +galafertile as a mixture when sprayed 3 times induced the best growth and yielded the heaviest early and total pod yield as weft as improving the quality of pods. Also, the data showed that the growth, yield and its quality were depended more on the foliar fertilizer treatment than on the sowing methods: