Considering its importance as commercial flower crop, the study on effect of VAM fungi on the growth, yield and xanthophyll content of marigold, at different phosphorus levels was initiated. | 2017 6 5 2846-2853 International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN 2319-7706 Volume 6 Number 5 2017 pp. 2846-2853 Journal homepage http Original Research Article https Correlation Studies between Xanthophyll Yield and Other Parameters in Marigold G. Swathi1 and B. Hemla Naik2 1 Department of Floriculture and Landscape Architecture College of Horticulture Mudigere Chikmagalur District Karnataka - 577 132 India 2 University of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences Shimoga Karnataka-577 225 India Corresponding author ABSTRACT Keywords A field experiment was conducted at experimental unit of Department of Floriculture and Landscape Architecture College of Horticulture Mudigere of Chikmagalur District Marigold VAM Karnataka India to study the correlation effect in marigold Tagetes erecta L. to the xanthophyll inoculation of Vesicular Arbuscular Mycorrhizal VAM fungi at different P levels on phosphorus xanthophyll yield and other parameters. In this experiment the VAM fungi viz. Glomus Glomus fasciculatum fasciculatum G. mosseae G. intraradices with an un-inoculated control was maintained G. mosseae G. intraradices. and three P levels viz. 60 90 120 kg ha-1 were tried. The results brought out that xanthophyll yield was positively and significantly correlated with plant height r Article Info number of secondary branches r total dry matter production r leaf area r LAD r NAR r CGR r Accepted flower size r number of flowers per plant r flower yield per hectare 26 April 2017 r petal meal yield per hectare r N uptake per hectare r Available Online P-uptake per hectare r and xanthophyll content per kg of petal meal r 10 May 2017 . Introduction Marigold Tagetes erecta L. belongs to contain high quality of essential oil that can Asteraceae family and is a herbaceous plant be used for .
