THE EFFECT OF CAPTAN SEED TREATMENT ON EMERGENCE, NODULATION, SEED YIELD AND SEED PROTEIN CONTENT OF LENTILS

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Abstract
Captan seed treatment did not affect seed yield, seed protein content and nodulation of lentils (Lens esculenta L.) where the soil was populated by the appropriate strain of Rhizobium leguminosarum. However, where the soil did not contain these nodule-forming bacteria, captan inhibited nodulation in plants grown from Rhizobium-inoculated seed and the seed yield and protein content of plants in the treated plots were lower than plants in the inoculated, non-treated plots. The seed protein content was higher in treatments which had well-nodulated plants than in treatments where plants had few or no nodules.