Effect on Different Levels of Nutrient on Morphological Characters of Banana cv. Grand Naine Indhumathi P.*, Devi D. Durga Department of Crop Physiology, AC & RI, TNAU, Coimbatore *Email: senthilmarun@gmail.com
Online published on 23 December, 2016. Abstract In India, banana is the important and highly remunerative fruit crop grown in tropical andsubtropical region. It represents the second most important fruit crop after mango in India. Banana is grown throughout Asian countries but it iscommercially cultivated on a large scale in the Indochina region. A field experiment was carried out in the College Orchard, College of Agriculture, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, during 2014. The objective of the study was to determine the proper rate of N, P and K fertilizers and plant growthregulators that would maximize the potential yield of commercially-grown banana Grand naine. Different levels of chemical fertilizers were applied, viz., N and K (150, 200, 250 and 300 g/tree), P (50 g/tree) in addition to Recommended dose of fertilizer applied for the treatment. The results indicated that vegetativegrowth parameters (that is, pseudo stem height, pseudostem girth, and number of leaves) of fertilized plants neither were significantly different norproduced better vegetative growth whencomparedto control plants. The fertilizer treatment M4 consisting of N (300 g N, 50 g P2O5 and 300 g MOP) numerically influenced the growth characteristics like pseudo stem height, pseudo stem girth and number of leaves, ‘Grand Naine’ banana as compared to other treatments. Top Keywords Pseudostem height, Girth, number of leaves, banana, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Top |