Growth study
Plant height
Data presented in Table 1 reveal that plant height was affected
significantly by the application of nitrogen fertilization.
These results were fairly true in two growing seasons; 2009
and 2010 and combined results except in the third cut of
the first season only. With increasing nitrogen fertilization
rates, plant height increased either in 2009 or 2010 and combined
analysis except in the third cut of the second season or/
and second cut in combined results with adding 75 kg N/fed.
These results may be due to the effect of nitrogen fertilization
in pushing growth of pearl millet and the increments in internode
length or/and number of internodes. Similar trend was
reported by Ayub et al. (2009), El-Sarag and Abu Hashem
(2009) and Pathan et al. (2010).