Foliar Zinc Application on Yield and Quality Characters of Soybean

摘要

Present study was conducted to determine the effects of foliar application at different doses of Zn (0,1500,3000 and 4500 g ha-1) on yield and some quality characters of soybean in the silty clay soils with high nutrient contents from experimental area of Black Sea Agricultural Research Institute,Turkey using A-3127 and A-3935 soybean cultivars during two consecutive years.Experimental design was a randomized complete block in split plot arrangement with three replications,utilizing cultivars as main plot and zinc rates as subplots.Results from both years indicate that successive zinc rates resulted in a significant increase in oil and protein contents of seed and oil yield.The successive doses of Zn also produced higher seed yield.