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 4 Effect of cultivars, foliar application of garlic extract, ascorbic acid or nicotinamide and interactions on photosynthetic pigments, IAA and phenolic contents of faba bean

Treatments		Chlo-a	Chlo-b	Total pigments	IAA	Phenolics
	Characters	μg/g F wt			μg/g F wt	mg/100 g
Cultivars
V1		15.98	5.68	23.85	47.46	57.58
V2		16.71	6.25	25.32	66.86	54.55
V3		22.18	8.15	35.53	57.95	52.47
LSD at 5%		NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Foliar application
P0		15.09	5.84	23.12	44.09	40.98
P1		20.51	7.41	33.56	60.75	53.93
P2		18.97	6.84	28.43	61.79	61.13
P3		18.59	6.68	27.82	63.08	63.42
LSD at 5%		1.12	0.40	0.70	0.37	0.32
Interactions
	P0	13.28	4.81	19.92	35.39	42.59
V1	P1	17.68	5.79	25.75	48.64	58.39
	P2	18.22	6.45	27.15	53.06	63.49
	P3	14.75	5.68	22.56	52.77	65.85
	P0	14.39	5.64	22.14	53.33	41.49
V2	P1	17.63	6.75	26.91	69.91	53.91
	P2	16.12	6.01	24.4	70.83	59.74
	P3	18.69	6.61	27.84	73.39	63.05
	P0	17.6	7.08	27.3	43.39	38.86
V3	P1	26.21	9.64	48.01	63.7	49.49
	P2	22.59	8.07	33.75	61.48	60.18
	P3	22.32	7.75	33.07	63.08	61.36
	LSD at 5%	1.94	0.74	1.4	0.64	0.56

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