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Influence of Irrigation and Phosphorus on Nodulation of Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.)

Volume : 68
Issue: Jul-jul
Pages: 485 - 487
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Abstract


Nodulation plays a vital role in pro-duction of leguminous crops. Besides inoculation, phosphorus has its own say on nodulation which inturn reflects on grain yield. Both extremities in soil moisture has unfavourable effect on nodulation and peak nodulation was observed under optimum soil moisture. status (Verma and Rao, 1975 and Sprent and Gallacher, 1976) Sahu (1973) recordod increased number of nodules at higher levels of phosphorus. To provide congenial moisture regime for peak nodulation, various irrigation regimes were tried along with phos-phorus fertilization for groundnut in this study.

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485 - 487
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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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