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Abstract A field experiment was carried out at private field in El-Rakah Village, El-Aayat Center, Giza, Egypt, during the two subsequent successive summer growing seasons of 2018 and 2019 to study the effect of mung bean (Kawmy-1) cultivar seed inoculation, phosphorus fertilizer levels, potassium fertilizer levels and their interaction on vegetative growth, seed yield and its components. The experiments were designed in split-split plots in a randomized complete block design with three replications. The main plot treatments were allocated of munge bean inoculation genotype. The sub plots were occupied with the three levels of phosphorus fertilizer levels. A laboratory experiment was carried out after the end of the field experiment in each season under the laboratory conditions at Giza Central Seed Testing Laboratory of Central Administration for Seed Certification (CASC), Ministry of Agriculture, Egypt, during April 2018 and 2019. Three factors were evaluated in this investigation as follows: The purpose of this investigation was to assess seed quality resulted from the field experiment. Random sample of 400 seeds from each treatment were germinated on top filter paper in sterilized Petri-dishes (14- cm diameter). Each Petri- dish contained 25 seeds, and four Petri-dishes kept close together and incubated at 25º C and 100 % relative humidity, then four replications were used to evaluate every seed test done on each treatment as the rules of International Seed Testing Association. According to the obtained results from this study, it can be concluded that mung bean inoculation seed (Kawmy-1) cultivar, fertilizing with kg 45 or 30 P2O5/fed and kg 50 K2O/fed could be recommend achieving maximum growth and seed yield and its components as well as germination characteristics under the environmental conditions of Giza Governorate, Egypt. |