Vol. 6, Issue 3 (2018)
Response of Nano-Sulphur to the groundnut
Author(s): M Thirunavukkarasu, KS Subramanian, P Kannan and T Balaji
Abstract: An attempt was made to study the response of nano-sulphur and conventional sulphur in groundnut in completely randomized block design and replicated thrice during 2013-14. The results indicated that nano-sulphur @ 30 kgha-1recorded of 0.76 mg,40.5 mg, 14.9 mg, 3.09 mg root, shoot, kernel and shell sulphur uptake plant-1respectively, whereas conventional sulphur @ 40 kg ha-1 registered root, shoot, kernel and shell sulphur uptake of 0.53, 35.8, 11.4 and 2.46 mg plant-1, respectively. The highest pod yield was recorded of 12.4 g plant-1with nano-sulphur application @ 30 kg ha-1when comparison to conventional sulphur @ 40 kg ha-1registered of 10.7 g plant-1. The higher oil, crude protein, methionine, cysteine and total free amino acid content of 48.3%, 27.2%, 3.44 mg 100g protein-1, 1.89 mg 100g protein-1 and 46.3 mg plant-1 were recorded under nano-sulphur application respectively than rest of the sulphur sources. Finally, study concluded that nano-S @ 30 kg ha-1 is sufficient to attain higher sulphur use efficiency with reduction of sulphur fertilizer to the tune of 25% besides augment the soil sulphur reserve without harming the environment.
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M Thirunavukkarasu, KS Subramanian, P Kannan, T Balaji. Response of Nano-Sulphur to the groundnut. Int J Chem Stud 2018;6(3):2067-2072.
