Abstract:
The experiment was conducted at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University Farm, Dhaka
during the period from October 2017 to February 2018 to study the growth and yield
response of mustard to leaf clipping. The treatment consisted of three variety viz.
V
1
=BARI Sarisha-14,V
2
=BARI Sarisha-15 and V
=BARI Sarisha-17 and five leaf
clipping viz. C
0
= No leaf clipping, C
1
= Clipping of 1
3
st
and 2
nd
leaf at main stem, C
=
Clipping of 2
nd
and 3
rd
leaf at main stem, C
3
=Clipping of 3
rd
and 4
leaf at main
stem, C
4
= Clipping of 4
th
and 5
th
leaf at main stem. The experiment was laid out in
split plot design with three replications. Significant effect was observe on the basis of
plant height (cm), branches plant
-1
, avobe ground dry matter plant
, length of
siliqua(cm) siliquae plant
-1
, seeds siliqua
-1
, 1000 seed weight (g), yield (t ha
), stover
yield (t ha
-1
), biological yield (t/ha) and harvest index. Results revealed that the
highest length of siliqua (5.07 cm), siliqua plant
-1
(102.4), seeds siliqua
(26.67),
thousand seed weight (3.82 g) ), total yield (1.86 t ha
-1
th
-1
-1
-1
),Biological yield(5.78 t ha
)
and harvest index (64.62%) was obtained from BARI Sarisha-17 with clipping of 2
and 3
rd
leaf on main stem at flower initiation stage while the lowest (1.007 t ha
) from
BARI Sarisha-14 with clipping of 4
th
and 5
th
leaf on main stem at flower initiation
stage.
-1
2
-1
nd
Description:
A Thesis
Submitted to the Faculty of Agriculture,
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka,
in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of
MASTER OF SCIENCE
IN
AGRONOMY
SEMESTER: JANUARY-JUNE, 2018
