Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences

Year: 2000 | Volume: 3 | Issue: 11 | Page No.: 1926-1928
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2000.1926.1928

Allelopathy and VA Mycorrhiza VII: Cultivation of Vigna radiate and Phaseolus vulgaris Under Allelopathic Stress Caused by lmperata cylindrica

Bushra Afzal, Rukhsana Bajwa and Arshad Javaid

Abstract: Tolerance of Vigna radiate (L.) Wilczek and Phaseolus vulgaris L. to allelopathic stress caused by aqueous shoot extract of Imperata cylindrica was studied. Both the test species were found to be susceptible to the aqueous extract. Root and shoot growth, yield, nodulation and VA mycorrhizal colonization in both the test species were significantly reduced under the allelopathic stress.