Open AccessInfluence of varieties and spacing on growth characters of sprouting broccoli (Brassica oleracea L.)
Author(s) -
Sanjay Kumar
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
annals of plant and soil research/annals of plant and soil research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2347-6036
pISSN - 0972-1959
DOI - 10.47815/apsr.2021.10037
Subject(s) - brassica oleracea , randomized block design , sprouting , horticulture , pusa , brassica , mathematics , biology , cultivar
The investigation was undertaken at B.B.A. University, Lucknow (UP) during rabi season of 2017-18 and 2018-19 to study the influence of varieties and spacing on growth characters of sprouting broccoli (Brassica oleracea L. var. italic Plenck). Four varieties viz. V1- Pusa Broccoli KTS-1, V2-Palam Kanchan , V3-Palam Vichitra , V4-Palam Samridhi and four spacings viz.- S1- 60x45 cm, S2 - 60×30 cm, S3 - 45×45 cm, S4 - 45×30 cm were evaluated in factorial randomized block design with three replications. The results revealed that the variety Pusa Broccoli KTS-1 showed the highest plant height (66.7 and 66.2 cm), stem diameter (3.5 and 3.5 cm),plant spreading (E-W and N-S) (61.3, 62.5 and 54.2, 55.3 cm), leaves per plant (23.7 and 23.9), length of leaves (51.1 and 51.1cm) and width of leaves (30.3 and 30.6 cm). Spacing of 60x45 cm produced significantly highest values of plant height (67.3 and 68.4 cm), stem diameter (3.4 and 3.4 cm), leaves per plant (24.3 and 24.5), length of leaves (51.9 and 52.0 cm) and width of leaves (31.0 and 31.2 cm). The lowest values of these growth characters were recorded under spacing of 45x30 cm. The interaction effect between variety Palam Vichitra and spacing of 60x45 cmshowed significant beneficial effect on growth parameters viz.- plant height (68.3 and 68.8 cm), stem diameter (3.5 and 3.6 cm), plant spreading (E-W and N-S) (64.1 and 68.1 and 54.5 and 55.6 cm), leaves per plant (24.7 and 24.9), length of leaves (52.7 and 52.5 cm) and width of leaves (31.3 and 31.3 cm) in sprouting broccoli.