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Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Biosciences (IJPAB)
Year : 2021, Volume : 9, Issue : 2
First page : (211) Last page : (221)
Article doi: : http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2582-2845.8206

Effect of Date of Sowing and Spacing on Growth and Yield of radish (Raphanus sativus L.) cv. Pusa Chetki

Arshdeep Singh, Puja Rattan* and Neha Sharma
Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, DAV University, Jalandhar
*Corresponding Author E-mail: rattanpooja16@gmail.com
Received: 18.02.2021 | Revised: 25.03.2021 | Accepted: 7.04.2021 

 ABSTRACT

The present investigation was conducted during winter 2018 at DAV University, Jalandhar to study the effect of different dates of sowing viz. 15 September, 1 October, and 15 October and spacing viz. 45 cm x 10 cm, 45 cm x 20 cm and 45 cm x 30 cm on growth and yield of radish cv. Pusa Chetki. The experiment was conducted in Factorial Randomized Block Design with three replications. Observations were recorded on root length, root width, number of leaves/plant, leaf length, leaf width, petiole length, petiole width, root weight/plant, root yield/ plot, plant height, root cracking/plot, root forking/plot, root biomass percentage and leaf biomass percentage. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) revealed significant differences among date of sowing for all the characters except root yield/plot. Significant differences were observed for all the characters among spacing. Interaction effect of date of sowing and spacing resulted significance difference for all the character under study except root length and petiole length. It was observed that plants sown on 1 October resulted in superior performance for most of the traits studied. Among spacing, desirable results were observed at closer spacing of 45 cm × 10 cm. Considering the interaction of sowing dates and spacing it was found that plants sown on 1 October with the spacing of 45 cm × 10 cm can resulted in superior performance with respect to growth and yield parameters of radish cv. Pusa Chetki.

Keywords: Pusa Chetki, Date of sowing, Spacing, Root cracking, Root forking, Root yield

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Cite this article: Singh, A., Rattan, P., & Sharma, N. (2021). Effect of Date of Sowing and Spacing on Growth and Yield of Radish(Raphanus sativus L.) cv. Pusa Chetki, Ind. J. Pure App. Biosci. 9(2), 211-221. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2582-2845.8206