| Similar increase in floret number (Table 1)
was recorded for all the doses of each formulation but increase in floret
number at dose levels found to be non-significant. The differences among
formulations for floret number were found to be significant. Maximum floret
number of 46.9 were recorded for crop+ formulation at the dose
of 1.275 litre and significant low number of 44.9 florets per spike was
recorded for seed+ formulation at the dose of 0.125 litres. The
observstions, revealed that crop+ formulation was more effective
for increasing floret number in wheat crop. The grains per spike (Table 1) are increased due to increasing rate at each formulation. Maximum grains of 28.9 per spike were obtained from crop+ formulation as compared to control which produced 27.9 grains per spike. The minimum grain number of 27.8 was recorded for untreated crop (Table 1). Increase in seed index (Table 1) was recorded for seed+ and soil+ formulation at different doses whereas crop+ formulation responded to lower extent. Data on seed index was found to be significant. Crop+ formulation at higher dose of 1.275 litre per hectare provided maximum average grain yield of 2.337 tons per hectare as compared to 2.292 tons per hectare obtained in case of untreated crop. Thus an increase of 4.1 percent in grain yield over control was obtained. Seed+ and soil+ formulation at all the doses, on an average, provided lower grain yield. Although differences among different formulations at various doses were non-significant, yet observations of this study revealed that application of crop+ formulation at higher dose was beneficial for the crop. The results are in co-operation with those of METCALF (1978) and COTHREN & COTTENMAN (1980), who have shown that cytozyme crop+ foliar spray increased yield of maize and cotton respectively. Similar findings have been reported by SILVA & STUTTE (1980) in rice. ASGHAR et al. (1981) have also reported 5.14% increase in grain yield of wheat with application of crop+ cytozyme, which also confirm present findings. Present study has suggested that application of cytozyme on wheat crop has some benificial effects on yield. Crop+ formulation was found to be more effective at higher dose, but most of the results were non-significant. Therefore, further investigations are suggested before generalization. References ASGHAR, M.M., A. RASHIDUDDIN & A.W. SOOMAR. 1981. Cytozyme products on growth development and yield of cotton, The Pakistan Cottons. pp. 51-54. COTHREN, S.T. & C.D. COTTENMAN. 1980. Evaluation of cytozyme crop+ as a Foliar application to enhance cotton yield. Arkansas Farm research 29(6) : 2 METCALF, B. 1978. Effect of Cytozyme on corn (unpublished report) Antiqka, West Indies. SILVA, R.V.F. & C.A. STUTTE. 1980. Response of rice to foliar applied cytozyme crop+. Arkansas Farm Research 29(4) : 12 |
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