Effects of conventional and reduced tillage methods on some traits of wheat in cotton-wheat system
Abstract
Tillage is one of the
most important agronomical practices especially for plant height (PH), grain
yield (GY) and yield components in wheat production. This study was carried out
in 2007–08 and 2008–09 growing seasons in
Kahramanmaras, Turkey, to investigate
response of five wheat cultivars (Adana, Ceyhan, Dogankent, Menemen and
Yuregir) to conventional (CT) and reduced tillage (RT) systems after cotton
harvest for PH, number of fertile
spikes per m2 (SM), spike length (SL), number of fertile spikelets
spike–1 (SS), number of grains spike–1
(GS), 1000–kernel
weight (KW) and GY components.
The soil was ploughed at a depth of 25–30 cm in CT system, while it was not
used in RT. The results indicated that all traits had greater values in 2008–09 than in 2007–08 except KW and GY. The tillage
systems significantly affected
PH, SM, SL, SS, GS and GY
except KW. Over the two years,
values of all traits in CT were higher than those of RT. There
was a significant and positive correlation for GY, SS, GS and KW between CT and
RT. The cultivars were affected by year and tillage system. Dogankent
cultivar had better performance and stable for most of the traits compared to
others under CT and RT in both years.
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
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Journal Section
Research Article
Publication Date
October 31, 2018
Submission Date
January 22, 2018
Acceptance Date
April 9, 2018
Published in Issue
Year 2018 Volume: 21 Number: 5
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