IMPORTANCE OF DETERMINING THE NUTRITIONAL STATUS
6. CONCLUSIONS
to escape drought and tolerates drought. Zhelev et al. (1992) conducted field trials on six root system traits in six P. vulgaris varieties and five mutants and as well two introduced lines. They reported that root system volume ranged from 4 to 11.7 cm3and was the greatest in the mutant ML-31. They also reported that there was a correlation between mean weight of the root system and total plant biomass.
We have observed that production of root biomass varies with the form of avail-ability of nutrients. If the nutrients are available easily to the plant in water soluble form (inorganic form) then the production of root biomass decreases. Instead, if the nutrient is in the organic form which is not easily available to the plant then the production of root biomass is higher. Ratio of shoot:root was in the order of 90:10, 77:23 and 68:32 in fertilizer, cattle manure and no fertilizer or no cattle manure applied plants respectively (Shivananda et al., 1998).
Guimaraes et al. (1996) have identified that very high root density can help a variety to be drought tolerant by way of its higher ability to absorb more of water from the surroundings by increasing its (root) surface area. Accordingly they iden-tified BAT 477 Carioca – an efficient variety in water absorption in Brazil.
observed that deeper placement upto 15 cm depth did not increase P utiliza-tion efficiency.
9. Application of P fertilizer at the time of sowing the seed as basal is the most useful practice. Application of P fertilizer in splits was evaluated and found that application in split as 50% at the time of sowing and rest 50% after 20 days was found to record 11.90 and 7.27 per cent utilization compared to 12.36%
applied as basal.
Distribution of root activity was found to be uniform more or less up to 15 cm depth or below. Maximum root activity of 27.9% was found to be at 10 cm depth.
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