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Soil enzymatic activity, nutrient dynamics and biplot analysis under varied plant population and nutrient management in machine-planted chickpea
Soil dehydrogenase (14.2, 11.3 mg TPF g–1 day–1), alkaline phosphatase (109.5, 86.7 mg PNP g–1 soil h–1), acid phosphatase (69.7, 51.6 mg PNP g–1 soil h–1) and urease activity (60.4, 39.9 mg NH4 g–1 2 h–1) in chickpea at flowering and harvest with seed rate @ 105 kg ha–1. Among, nutrient management the corresponding activity (14.9, 11.7 mg TPF g–1 day–1), (120.7, 96.7 mg g PNP g–1 soil h–1), (70.5, 52.7 mg g PNP g–1 soil h–1) was higher with 75% RDF + microbial consortia (MC). Contrarily, urease activity (62.3, 38.7 mg g NH4 g–1 2 h–1), soil available soil nitrogen (181.3, 179.0 kg ha–1) and phosphorus (78.3, 76.5 kg ha–1) were higher under 125% RDF + MC. PCA indicated that among nutrient management, first principal component explained 71.37% variability to urease activity, available soil potassium and dehydrogenase activity and second component (22.34%) to available soil phosphorus and nitrogen. Among planting density, first component explained variability (66.87%) to acid phosphatase and second component (32.11%) to available phosphorus
Keywords
Enzyme activity, nutrient management, PCAbiplot, planting density, soil nutrient dynamics.
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