Title: EFFECT OF PHOSPHATE FERTILIZATION, MOLYBDENUM FOLIAR SPRAY AND RHIZOBIUM INOCULATION ON GROWTH AND YIELD OF CHICKPEA
Abstract: A field experiment was conducted on chickpea plants (Giza 3var) grown on a sandy soil at Ismailia Agric. Res. Station, Egyptduring the winter season of 2005/2006 to study the effect of theseparate treatments of phosphorus fertilizer, molybdenum foliarspray and seed inoculation with rhizobium and their combinations onplant growth, root nodulation, seed and straw yields.The obtained data indicate that the combined application wasas good as separate treating and both had significantly increases forroot nodulation, vegetative growth, pod, seed and straw yields aswell as the plant contents of N, P and K over the untreated control.The individual effects of phosphate fertilization, molybdenum foliarapplication and rhizobium inoculation on vegetative growth and yieldof chickpea arranged in ascending order were molybdenum < seedinoculation < phosphorus. However, the highest values of plant dryweight (70 days after planting) and yield of chickpea existed in theinoculated plants which received 45 kg P