Influence of Presowing Seed Treatments with Organic Manures and Botanicals on Plant Growth, Yield and Yield Attributing Traits of Yellow Mustard (Sinapis alba L.) Variety (ISP-186)

Abstract

The present investigation was conducted during Rabi season in the year (2021-2022) at post graduate Central Research Farm, Department of Genetics and plant Breeding, Naini Agriculture Institute, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture Technology And Sciences, PRAYAGRAJ-211007 (U.P) with a goal to evaluate the influence of presowing seed treatments with organic manures and botanicals on plant growth, yield and yield attributing traits of yellow mustard (Sinapis alba) Variety (ISP -186) and to find out suitable seed priming method for mustard under Randomized Block Design with 13 priming treatments which are replicated thrice. The results revealed that treatment T6 Jeevamruth (7%) has recorded maximum Rate of emergence(97.52), plant height (131.07cm) ,Number of Branches (13.60),Days to 50% flowering(40.36), Days to Maturity(99), Number of silique/plant (83.45), Number of seeds\silique(13.47), seed yield/plant(4.73), seed yield/plot(56.44), Biological yield (250.67),Harvest index (41.00).significance mean sum of squares due to seed priming treatments were observed for all the characters under study viz., Field emergence percentage, Plant height (30, 60, 90 DAS), Number of branches/plant, Days to maturity, Number of silique/plant, Number of seeds/plant, seed yield/plant(g), Seed yield/plot(g), Biological yield(g), Harvest index (%) which were highly significant at 5% level of significance indicating presence of good amount of variability among the treatments for these characters.