Influence of Sodium Potassium Niobate (Na0.5K0.5NbO3) Nanoparticle on Yield and Yield Attributes of Sugar Beet (Beta vulgaris)

Abstract

A field experiment was conducted during RABI 2024 at Karguanji Research Farm, Department of Soil Science and Agriculture Chemistry, Bundelkhand University, Jhansi (Utter Pradesh). The soil texture of experimental site was loamy sand, with a pH of 8.1, low organic carbon (0.58%), available Nitrogen (208.14 kg/ha), available Phosphorus (12.57 kg/ha), available potassium (232.14 kg/ha) and Ec (0.29 d Sm-1). The experiment was laid out in completely randomized design with five treatments to evaluate the performance of sodium potassium niobate nanoparticles on Yield and yield attributes of sugar beet. The treatments consist moistened with deionized water (0.0, 200, 400, 600 and 800 ppm). The results reveled that plant height was recorded significantly higher 56.30 cm, maximum number of bulb diameter (13.02 cm), maximum number of leaf fresh weight (59.21 gm), maximum leaf dry weight (6.46 gm), maximum bulb fresh weight (130.00 gm), maximum bulb dry weight (11.03 gm) were recorded with the treatment of Sodium potassium niobate nanoparticles 200 ppm + 400 ppm as compared to other treatments.