PHYTOMORPHOLOGY OF WHEAT AND ITS GRAIN QUALITY RESPONSE TO DIVERSE APPROACHES OF IRON APPLICATION

Agriculture soils of Pakistan are already deficient macronutrients, and now inadequacy for micronutrients has also been reported causing adverse effects on crop productivity. The study was carried out to investigate the effect soil foliar applied iron (Fe) wheat. treatments included: T1=Control (without Fe), T2=Soil Fe 3 kg ha‑1, T3=Soil 6 T4=Foliar 0.2%, T5=Foliar 0.4%, T6=Soil 1.5 ha-1+foliar 0.1%, T7=Soil T8=Soil 0.1% T9=Soil 0.2%. All as alone or in combination, affected growth, yield quality wheat significantly (P<0.05). results showed that T9 T3 were most promising almost all studied traits. Under T3, variety “TD-1” produced plants 59.44 59.09 cm, while “Sindhu” 92.9 75.98 cm height, respectively. Higher grain (4799.7 4760.5 ha-1), protein (17.22 17.13%) recorded respectively; T1 remained least. In varieties, higher (4788.9 kg) than (4341.8 ha-1). Inversely, (17.10%) “ TD-1” (16.72%). It concluded 0.2% concentration absence application, at ha-1 appropriate dose growers addition recommended NPK