Plant Nutrient Status during Boll Development and Seed Cotton Yield as Affected by Foliar Application of Different Sources of Potassium — Oak Academic Publishing
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Plant Nutrient Status during Boll Development and Seed Cotton Yield as Affected by Foliar Application of Different Sources of Potassium
Department of Soil Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India.
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Department of Soil Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India.
1 Department of Soil Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India.
2 Department of Soil Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India.
Bt cotton hybrids require large supply of metabolites to support their greater boll load and commonly suffer from pre mature leaf senescence. A field experiment was conducted to study the nutritional status of Bt cotton leaves during boll development stage and to evaluate the most profitable source of foliar fertilizers. Treatments included basal application of 0 and 60 kg ·K 2 O·ha - 1 as muriate of potash (MOP) in main plots and foliar spray treatments viz: 4 & 6 sprays of 2% potassium nitrate (Multi-K, 13-00-45), 4 & 6 sprays of NPK Blend (Polyfed, 19-19-19), 4 sprays of MOP, 4 sprays of MOP + urea (to supply same amount of N & K as in potassium nitrate) and unsprayed control in sub plots. The results revealed that only N and K content s of premature senesced leaves w ere below the sufficiency range for cotton sufficient levels of P, Fe, Mn, Zn and Cu were observed. Though the concentrations of N and K in both the petiole and leaf blade initially improved with foliar spray, N content declined below the unsprayed control at later stages. Basal application of MOP increased seed cotton yield by 19%. Four foliar sprays of KNO 3 , NPK, MOP and MOP + urea recorded yield increase in seed cotton yield of 22.8 % , 22.4 % , 18.5 % and 24.5%, respectively over unsprayed control. Six sprays of KNO 3 and NPK had no yield advantage over four sprays and rather proved economically less viable .
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