IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/plo/pone00/0206285.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium fertilization to achieve expected yield and improve yield components of mung bean

Author

Listed:
  • Zhichao Yin
  • Wenyun Guo
  • Huanyu Xiao
  • Jie Liang
  • Xiyu Hao
  • Naiyuan Dong
  • Tingrui Leng
  • Yingjie Wang
  • Qingyu Wang
  • Fengxiang Yin

Abstract

Mung bean (Vigna radiata L.) is an important edible bean in the human diet worldwide. However, its growth, development, and yield may be restricted or limited by insufficient or unbalanced nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) fertilization. Despite this, there are few long-term studies of the effects of varying levels of N, P, and K combined fertilizers and the optimal fertilization for improving mung bean yield and quality. This study was conducted to optimize the fertilization strategies for high yield and to improve yield components (pods per plant, seeds per pod, and 100-seed weight) in the Bailv9 mung bean cultivar, 23 treatments were tested in 2013–2015, using a three-factor (N, P, and K fertilizers), five-level quadratic orthogonal rotation combination design. Our studies showed that, the N, P, and K fertilizers significantly influenced the pods per plant and yield, which increased and then decreased with the increasing N, P, and K fertilizers. The 100-seed weight was significantly affected by the N and P fertilization, and it was increased consistently with the increasing N fertilizer, and decreased significantly with the increasing P fertilizer. Whereas, the seeds per pod significantly decreased with the increasing N and K fertilizers, and the P fertilizer had no significant effect on it. The NP interaction had a significant effect on yield and pods per plant at high N levels, while the NK interaction had a significant but opposite effect on yield at low N levels. The optimal fertilization conditions to obtain yield >2,141.69 kg ha-1 were 34.38–42.62 kg ha-1 N, 17.55–21.70 kg ha-1 P2O5, and 53.23–67.29 kg ha-1 K2O. Moreover, the optimal N, P, and K fertilization interval to achieve pods per plant > 23.41 and the optimal N fertilization to achieve a 100-seed weight > 6.58 g intersected with the interval for yield, but the seeds per pod did not. The fertilizer ratio for the maximum yield was N:P2O5:K2O = 1:0.5:1.59. Following three years experimentation, the optimal fertilization measures were validated in 2016–2017, the results indicated that yield increased by 19.6% than that obtained using conventional fertilization. The results of this study provide a theoretical basis and technical guidance for high-yield mung bean cultivation using the optimal fertilization measures.

Suggested Citation

  • Zhichao Yin & Wenyun Guo & Huanyu Xiao & Jie Liang & Xiyu Hao & Naiyuan Dong & Tingrui Leng & Yingjie Wang & Qingyu Wang & Fengxiang Yin, 2018. "Nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium fertilization to achieve expected yield and improve yield components of mung bean," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(10), pages 1-17, October.
  • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0206285
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0206285
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0206285
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0206285&type=printable
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1371/journal.pone.0206285?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Sun, Yanan & Duan, Linbo & Zhong, Huayu & Cai, Huanjie & Xu, Jiatun & Li, Zhijun, 2024. "Effects of irrigation-fertilization-aeration coupling on yield and quality of greenhouse tomatoes," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 299(C).
    2. Amani Lakshmi Vemulakonda & Ahmad Abdullah Saad & Shamal Shasang Kumar & Owais Ali Wani & Lal Singh & Subhash Babu & Inayat Mustafa Khan & Fahim Jeelani Wani & Shaheen Kauser Jan & Khalid M. Elhindi &, 2024. "Revealing the Nexus between Fertilizer Composition and the Performance of Common Bean ( Phaseolus vulgaris L.) Genotypes in the Himalayan Heartland of India," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(14), pages 1-25, July.
    3. Feng Qu & Jiao Zhang & Xueqiang Ma & Junzheng Wang & Zixing Gao & Xiaohui Hu, 2020. "Effects of different N, P, K and Ca levels on tomato yield, quality and fertiliser use efficiency," Plant, Soil and Environment, Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, vol. 66(11), pages 569-575.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0206285. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: plosone (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.