Pre-Sowing seed treatment with vam in French bean: response for vegetable production

Abstract

The field experiment was conducted on pre-sowing seed treatment of seeds of eight French bean genotypes viz., Sonali, Selection 9, Deepali, Abhay, Victoria, Arka Suvidha, Arka Anoop and Falguni was done with VAM (Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhiza) and crop was grown from both treated and untreated control seeds during winter season of 2012-13 and 2013-14 following Split-Plot Design with three replications. Significant variation among the genotypes was consistent for vegetable pod yield and its attributes viz., plant height, number of branches, number of pods per plant, pod length and breadth, single pod weight and vegetable pod yield per plant. Pre-sowing seed treatment with VAM also exerted significant influence for creating variation in all these parameters studied. Genotypes x treatment interactions were also significant for these characters excepting vegetable pod breadth in both the years as well as in pooled condition.