Two field experiments were carried out at the Agricultural Research and Experimental Center, Faculty of Agric. Moshtohor, Kalubia, Egypt, during 1985/86 and 1986/87 seasons to study the effect of planting methods, plant densities and weed control treatments on growth charac ters of f aba bean. Each experiment included 30 treatments which were the combination of two planting methods, three plant densities and five weed control treatments. The studied growth characters of faba bean i.e. plant height, number of branches, leaves and pods/plant, L.A.!. and dry weight of different parts of the plant were not affected by planting methods except the number of branches! Aant at 70 days, plant height and L.A.I. at 130 days from sowing where Af ir method gave the heaviest values than Herati method. At all different growth stages, faba bean growth characters were increased by increasing plant density, the highest values were obtained with planting 93000 plant/fed., while the lowest were recorded at high plant population (280000 plants/fed.). All weed control treatments increased the dry weight of different parts of faba bean plant, i.e. branches, leaves and pods as well as total dry weight of plants than un-weeded check. The interaction between plant densities and weed control treatments on growth characters indciate that topogard or hand weeding gave the greater values under the lowest plant density. |
