Two field experiments were carried out at the Farm of Al-Zawia Zone-Libya in the winter seasons of 2006/2007 and 2007/2008 to study the effect of two microorganisms (Rhizobium bacteria and yeast fungi) and nitrogen fertilization (100kg/hectare urea, 46.5%N) on plant growth, green pod yield and its components, quality of pods and nutritive value of pea seeds, cv. Master-B. The experiment was included 8 treatments, i.e., control, dry yeast, rhizobuim, urea, yeast + rhizobium, yeast + urea, rhizobuim + urea and yeast + rhizobium + urea. The obtained results showed that the triple treatment of dry yeast, rhizobium and urea fertilization, being the most effective on increased plant growth (plant height and number of leaves/plant), green pod yield and its components (and number of pods/plant ,total green pod yield per plant and per hectare), quality of pods (pod length and number of seeds per pod) and the nutritive value of pea seeds (P and K-contents of seeds). In addition, there are no significant differences between the treatment of rhizobium + urea and dry yeast + rhizobium on average pod weight in the two growing seasons of study and on pod diameter in the first season only. In most cases, the triple treatment was the best on the most of studied characters, followed in descending order by rhizobium + urea and dry yeast + rhizobium. The lowest values of all studied characters was obtained by the control treatment. Conclusively, it could be concluded that the best treatments for high pea plant growth , green pod yield and its components , quality of pods and chemical contents of seeds (nutritive value) were yeast + Rhizobium + urea , followed by Rhizobium + urea , and yeast + Rhizobium.
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