This research was carried out at a special farm at Balghounis - Banias during the
agricultural season 2013/14 to study the of effect plant density and variety and the
interaction between them on some productivity characteristics of faba bean plant.
Two
faba bean varieties were used : Balady (local variety) and Italian Super Simonia (new
variety in Syria). Five densities (20, 10, 6.67, 5, 4) plants/m2 were studied. A split plot
design with three replications was used, in which varieties were assigned to main plots and
densities to sub plots. The GenStat 12 program was used for statistical analyses.
The results indicated that Balady variety significantly surpasses the Italian one in
plant height during maturity stage. Also Balady variety showed a significant increase
compared to Italian variety in number of branches/plant, number of pods/plant and 100-
seed weight. On the other hand, Italian variety significantly surpasses the Balady one in
number of seeds/pod and seed yield, and it showed a significant increase compared to
Balady variety in seed weight per plant. Increasing of plant density led to an increase of
plant height and a decrease of number of branches/ plant, number of pods/plant and
number of seeds/pod. Decreasing of plant density led to decrease of 100-seed weight and
seed yield.
