 Effect of Foliar Boron Application on Rice (Oryza Sativa L.) Growth and Final Crop HarvestSajed Ali (), Syed Ali Raza (), Shahid Javed Butt () and Zahid Sarwar () Agriculture and Food Sciences Research, 2016, vol. 3, issue 2, 49-52 Abstract: Boron (B) is an essential micro nutrient and its deficiency caused a reduction in final crop harvest and quality of the yield. A field experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of foliar application of B on yield and yield components of rice in calcareous soils under agro-climatic conditions of Lahore, Pakistan. The experiment was laid out in randomized complete block design (RCBD) with six B foliar application rates (0, 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 mg L-1). The experiment was replicated three times. The results illustrated a significant effect of B foliar application on number of grains panicle-1, number of filled grains and final grain yield. The highest grain yield (352 g m-2) was recorded in 20 mg L-1 foliar application, whereas an increase in B application to 25 mg L-1 reduces the final grain yield significantly (313 g m-2). Detrimental effects of the highest B application on yield components were also observed. The decline in the quantity and quality rice yield resulted by increasing B application might be due to the toxic effect of higher concentration of B application. Keywords: Micronutrients; Boron; Rice; Yield. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:aoj:agafsr:v:3:y:2016:i:2:p:49-52:id:163 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Agriculture and Food Sciences Research from Asian Online Journal Publishing Group |
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