Abstract:
The experiment was conducted at the farm of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural
University, Dhaka during the period from December 2017 to February 2018 to
study the growth, yield and seed viability of french bean varieties as influenced
by vermicompost. Two factors viz. three french bean varieties; V
1
(BARI jhar
seem-1), V
2
(BARI jhar seem-2) and V
3
(BARI jhar seem-3) and four levels of
vermicompost; Vc
0
(0 t ha
-1
), Vc
1
(6 t ha
-1
), Vc
2
(8 t ha
-1
) and Vc
3
)
were considered for the experiment. The experiment consisting of 12 treatment
combinations laid out in Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with
three replications. It was noted that the maximum plant height (47.92 cm) was
found from the variety, V
3
(BARI jhar seem-3). But the the variety V
1
(BARI
jhar seem-1) showed the highest flowers plant
-1
(41.09), pods plant
(32.09),
fresh weight of pods plant
-1
(267.19 g), dry weight of pods plant
(45.91 g) and
fresh pod yield ha
-1
(7.13 t). The treatment Vc
3
(10 t ha
-1
) showed the highest
plant height (43.31 cm), branches plant
-1
-1
(15.20), flowers plant
(50.92),
number of pods plant
-1
(40.82), pod length (11.11 cm), fresh weight of pods
plant
-1
(342.25 g), dry weight of pods plant
(6.53) and fresh pod yield ha
-1
-1
(10 t ha
-1
-1
(57.56 g), number of seeds pod
(9.13 t). Treatment combination of V
1
(BARI
jhar seem -1with 10 t ha
-1
)
gave the highest flowers plant
-1
Vc
3
(52.62), pods plant
(42.56), pod length (11.37), fresh weight of pods plant
-1
(367.50g), dry weight
of pods plant
-1
(61.50 g) and fresh pod yield ha
-1
(9.80 t) whereas V
2
(BARI
jhar seem-2 with 0 t ha
-1
) had lowest value for all the parameters.
Incase of seed
viability test seed germination (96.67%), root length (20.02 cm), shoot length
(24.08 cm), and seed vigor index (2348.00) were recorded as maximum with
V
1
Vc
3
(BARI jhar seem-1 with 10 t ha
-1
vermicompost) where the lowest was
obtained from V
2
Vc
0
.
Vc
0
-1
-1
-1
Description:
A Thesis
Submitted to the Institute of Seed Technology,
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka
in partial fulfilment of the requirements
for the degree
of
MASTER OF SCIENCE (MS)
IN
SEED TECHNOLOGY
SEMESTER: JULY - DECEMBER, 2017
