EFFECT Of TRANSPLANTING AND SOME SOil PATHOGENS CONTROlON GROWTH AND YIELD OF SUGAR BEET

Abstract

Two field experiments and one pot experiment were carried out to study the effect of transplanting, calcium application and fungicide treatment on growth and yield of sugar beet. The field experiments were in Shalakan Agric. Res. Station of Int. Res. Center during 1998/99 and 1999/2000. The study involved three planting methods, namely; direct sowing, four weeks age transplanting and six weeks age transplanting; two calcium treatments in the first season, control and calcium chelate, and three treatments in the second one; calcium chelate, calcium sulphate and control and two fungicide treatments, control and Rhizolex application. The design of the experiment was split plot where the planting methods were allocated in the main plots and the combination between calcium and fungicide treatments in the sub plot.