Investigating Combination and Individual Impact of Phosphorus and Humic Acid on Yield of Wheat and Some Soil Properties

Year 2018, Volume: 5 Issue: 4, 492 - 500, 18.10.2018

Aftab Jamal , İqrar Hussaın Muhammad Sarirullah Sarır Muhammad Sharıf Muhammad Fawad

https://doi.org/10.30910/turkjans.471297

Cited By: 7

Abstract

In order to evaluate the effect of different levels of Phosphorous (P)
alone and in combination with Humic acid (HA) on the yield and P accumulation
by wheat(TriticumaestivumL,
CV Fakhr-e-Sarhad)., a field experiment was carried out at agriculture research
station of Swabi, Pakistan during 2016-2017. A total of eight treatments
replicated four times were arranged in Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD)
in the field. Two levels of HA including control (H0: control and H1: 500 g ha^-1) and
four levels of P (P₂O₅) including control as Single Super
Phosphate (SSP)   (P0: control, P1: 60 kg
ha^-1, P2: 90 kg ha^-1, and P3: 150 kg ha^-1)
were utilized. ; Size of each plot was kept to 5x4
m. Addition of different levels of SSP alone and in combination with HA
significantly (P<0.05) improved straw, grain and total wheat yield over
control. HA in combination with 60 and 90 kg P₂O₅ ha^-1
improved the grain yield by 22.4 and 6.5 % respectively as compared to the same
amount of fertilizer applied alone. Total yield (Dry mass + Grains) of 20877 kg
ha^-1 was produced by the treatment P2H1 (90 kg P₂O₅
ha^-1 + 500 g ha^-1 HA) followed by the treatment P2H0,
which were 78.69 and 75.03 % increases over the control. Significantly highest
1000- grain weight of 47.8 g was recorded in the treatment P2H1 while all other
treatments showed non-significant increase in 1000- grain weight. Unlike soil
pH values, improvement in the Soil Organic Matter content (SOM) was observed
with the application of both HA and chemical fertilizers either applied alone
or in combination. SSP applied either alone or in combination with HA increased
significantly (P<0.05) the post-harvest soil P concentration as well as P
accumulation by wheat plants over control. Results suggest that application 90
kg P₂O₅ ha^-1   reinforced with HA (P2H1) may be considered
as an optimum dosage for achieving optimum yield of wheat crop.

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