Influence of Sowing Date on Phenology, Biometric, and Yield of Mungbean (Vigna radiata) Cultivars in Chitwan, Nepal

Table 1

Effect of different sowing dates and selected cultivars on phenological stages of spring mungbean at AFU, Rampur, Chitwan, 2019.

Treatment	Days to 75% phenological stages
	Emergence	Trifoliate	Flowering
Date of planting (D)
D1 = February-13	6.58^a	20.96^a	57.17^a
D2 = February-28	5.21^b	18.04^b	50.42^b
D3 = March-15	5.17^b	16.08^c	42.75^c
D4 = March-30	4.13^c	12.96^d	39.00^c
SEm (±)	0.21	0.60	1.82
LSD (0.05)	0.51	1.47	4.45
CV (%)	4.90	4.30	4.70
Cultivars (V)
V1 = Kalyan	5.25^ab	16.79^b	46.58 ^b
V2 = Partikshya	5.46^a	17.67^a	48.50^a
V3 = Partigya	5.42^a	17.04^ab	47.83^ab
V4 = Pant-5	4.96^b	16.54^b	46.42^b
SEM (±)	0.18	0.40	0.81
LSD (0.05)	0.38	0.81	1.68
CV (%)	8.60	5.60	4.20
Grand mean	5.27	17.01	47.33

Treatment mean followed by common letters within the same column are not significantly different from each other based on DMRT at a 5% level of significance.