Study of Effect of Sugar Mill Effluent on Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum) Varieties

Study of Effect of Sugar Mill Effluent on Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum) Varieties



Kamlesh, M. K. Kidwai



The present study has been carried out to assess the
water quality parameters of sugar mill effluent and their effect on
plant growth and biochemical constituents of Fenugreek (Trigonella
foenum-graecum) varieties (Kasuri) and (Pusa Bold). The physico-chemical
parameters included colour, odour, pH, temperature, electrical
conductivity (EC), total solids (TS), total dissolved solids (TDS),
total suspended solids (TSS), chemical oxygen demand (COD), biochemical
oxygen demand (BOD), total hardness (TH), total alkalinity (TA) and
chloride (Cl-). In the pot culture experiment, fenugreek plants were
grown up to 21 days, in the soil irrigated with different concentration
of sugar mill effluent like viz. (control, 0.5%, 1.0%, 5.0% and 10.0%)
to investigate their effect on plant growth parameters such as
germination percentage, seedling vigour, plant length, fresh weight and
dry weight and pigments such as chlorophyll-a, chlorophyll-b, total
chlorophyll and carotenoid. The higher sugar mill effluent dilutions
(above 5%) were found to affect initial growth parameters and decreased
biochemical contents, but at lower dilutions (up to 5%) favoured initial
plant growth of both the plant varieties. 



10.22161/ijeab/1.4.31



http://ijeab.com/upload_document/issue_files/31%20IJEAB-DEC-2016-10-Study%20of%20Effect%20of%20Sugar%20Mill%20Effluent%20on%20Fenugreek%20(Trigonella%20foenum-graecum)%20Varieties.pdf



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