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The Effect of Harvest Date on Tuber Yield and Quality Characteristics of Some Processing Potato Cultivars Under the Mediterranean Conditions

H.Halis Arıoğlu, M. Emin Çalışkan, Umur Çürük, Bihter Zaimoğlu, Hatice Çelik, Leyla Güllüoğlu

Abstract

This study was carried out to determine the effect of harvest dates on tuber yield, yield components and some important quality characteristics of some processing type potato cultivars during the winter and spring seasons of 2003 and 2004 at Adana, located in the East Mediterranean region of Turkey. Six processing potato cultivars (Felsina, Shepody, Hermes, Remarka, Agria and Van Gogh) planted on 19th January in 2003 and 27th February in 2004 were harvested at three different dates as representing early (15th May), normal (24th May) and late harvest time (9th June) for the region. Tuber yield and yield components increased significantly as harvest was delayed in all cultivars. Cultivar differences for tuber yield were more pronounced at earlier harvest, but it disappeared at the last harvest at which all cultivars with over 45 t/ha tuber yield. Delaying harvest until late May positively affected dry matter, starch and reducing sugar content in all cultivars, but further delaying of harvest resulted in a decrease in tuber quality of some cultivars. These results indicated that off-season early potato crops of Mediterranean region have acceptable processing quality depending on cultivars and harvest dates.

Keyword: Early potato, cultivar, processing quality, harvest time, Mediterranean region ,

Effects of Different Water Stress Levels on Biomass Yield and Agronomic Traits of Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) Varieties under Semi-Arid Conditio

Erdal GONULAL, Suleyman SOYLU, Mehmet SAHIN

Abstract

A field experiment was conducted in the Wielkopolska region at the Gorzyń Research Station, Poland (52.34°N, 15.54°E) in Central Europe. The study was conducted over a 3-year period (2017, 2018, 2019) as a two-factorial design with four replications in the RCBD. The aim of the research was to determine the effect of the cultivar (‘Bolero’, ‘Tytan’) and the inoculation (Nitragina–seeds inoculation, Nitroflora I–seeds inoculation, Nitroflora II–soil inoculation, HiStick® Lupin–seeds inoculation) on plant development, seeds chemical composition and yielding of narrow-leaved lupin. The weather conditions and experimental factors significantly influenced on productivity of narrow-leaved lupin ‘Tytan’. Drought during the growing season reduced seeds and protein yields. After inoculation of HiStck the seeds yield was significantly greater by 12.4% (p < 0.01) and the protein yield after application of Nitroflora I or HiStick by 13.9% (p < 0.01) and 19.2% (p < 0.01), respectively. Correlation coefficients showed strong relations between number of pods and seeds per plant in both cultivars regardless of the inoculation variant, however the strongest relations in both cultivar were proved on HiStick treatment.
Keyword: Biological nitrogen fixation, chemical composition, legumes, protein efficiency, yielding