Quantitative and Qualitative Yield Response of Guar Seeds to Plant Density and Organic Fertilizer

Daryaei, Faezeh; Aghaalikhani, Magid

doi:10.22059/jci.2025.370796.2871

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Faezeh Daryaei ¹
Magid Aghaalikhani ²

¹ Medicinal Plants and by-products Branches,, National Forest and Rangeland Research Institute, Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education organization,, , Tehran,, Iran.

² Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tarbiat Modares, Tehran, Iran

10.22059/jci.2025.370796.2871

Abstract

Objective: The industrial medicinal guar plant (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba L. Taub.) is a drought-resistant plant well adapted to our country's climate. This plant can produce a desirable yield with low precipitation and minimize the cost of irrigation.
Method: To study the effect of planting density and fertilizing systems on guar quantitative and qualitative yield, an experiment was conducted as factorial in a randomized complete block design with three replications at research field of Tarbiat Modares University in 2018. Treatments included three planting densities (133,000 D1: 88,000 D2: and 66,000 plants per hectare D3) as the first factor and three nutitional treatments (fertilizing with urea 100 kg/ha; F1, vermicompost 6 ton/ha; F2 and bioGME 2.25 ton/ha; F3) were evaluated as the second factor. The quantitative traits which were measured for guar plant were plant height, number of pods per square meter, number of seeds per pod, weight of 1000 seeds, seed yield, biological yield and harvest index. At the end of the growing season, after removing the margins, random sampling was done from the middle rows of the plots (10 plants from each experimental plot) and the seeds of each treatment were sent to the laboratory to measure the morphological characteristics of the plant and the parameters of the quantitative and qualitative traits of the seeds.
Results: The results showed that pod number per m2, seed number per pod, 1000 seed weight, seed yield, oil and protein yield and harvest index were affected significantly by the interaction of density and fertilizer type. The treatment D2F2 was performed the highest amounts of above morphological traits including pod number per m2, seed number per pod, 1000 seed weight, seed yield, oil and protein yield and harvest index. The highest percentage of guargum was observed in D1F1 which was not significantly different from other levels of vermicompost and bioGME fertilizer application in the density of 133000 plants per hectare.
Conclusions: Alltogether, it is suggested that the vermicompost applied along with density of 88,000 plants / ha is appropriate for guar cultivation. However, fertilization by chemical manure in 133,000 plant / ha plant density is recommanded whereas the industrial purpose would be considered. Because, gurgum production was in maximized content when chemical fertilizer was applied.
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