Effect of garlic extract, ascorbic acid and nicotinamide on growth, some biochemical aspects, yield and its components of three faba bean (Vicia faba L.) cultivars under sandy soil conditions

Bulletin of the National Research Centre

Table 3 Effect of cultivars, foliar application of garlic extract, ascorbic acid or nicotinamide and interactions on yield and its components of faba bean plants (data are means of two seasons)

Treatments		Plant height (cm)	Weight of plant (g)	Number of pods/plant	Seed yield/plant (g)	100 seeds (g)	Seed yield (kg/ha)
	Characters	Plant height (cm)	Weight of plant (g)	Number of pods/plant	Seed yield/plant (g)	100 seeds (g)	Seed yield (kg/ha)
Cultivars
V1		105.53	61.52	14.45	48.52	75.12	1133.76
V2		103.02	59.59	13.48	46.58	73.28	1104.67
V3		100.29	59.61	10.27	38.91	64.27	924.98
LSD at 5%		2.05	1.13	0.24	0.65	0.43	105.32
Foliar application
P0		101.49	59.54	12.47	43.45	70.23	800.93
P1		104.12	61.47	13.06	46.23	71.87	1184.00
P2		102.87	59.84	12.74	44.55	70.57	1108.64
P3		103.30	60.11	12.66	44.45	70.90	1124.33
LSD at 5%		1.35	0.47	0.32	0.40	0.45	145.24
Interactions
V1	P0	104.51	60.76	14.24	47.16	74.57	645.26
	P1	106.97	62.98	14.80	49.96	76.23	1437.71
	P2	105.20	60.83	14.47	48.05	74.57	1104.55
	P3	105.43	61.50	14.30	48.92	75.10	1232.95
V2	P0	102.37	59.00	13.24	45.92	72.76	965.14
	P1	104.08	60.63	13.72	47.72	73.68	1296.50
	P2	103.10	59.58	13.54	46.73	73.25	1103.02
	P3	102.53	59.13	13.40	45.93	73.43	1170.33
V3	P0	97.60	58.87	9.94	37.28	63.36	654.48
	P1	101.32	60.78	10.66	41.00	65.68	1148.69
	P2	100.30	59.10	10.20	38.87	63.88	924.88
	P3	101.93	59.70	10.27	38.50	64.17	971.88
	LSD at 5%	NS	NS	0.56	0.70	NS	154.00

P0 = spraying with tap water, P1 = foliar application with garlic extract at (5%), P2 = foliar application with ascorbic acid at 200 ppm and P1 = foliar application with nicotinamide at 50 ppm