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YIELD RESPONSE OF COTTON TO FOLIAR FERTILIZATION OF POTASSIUM IN ÇUKUROVA REGION

Özgül GÖRMÜŞ

Abstract

Experiments were conducted to evaluate the effect of foliar K applications on seed cotton yield and fiber quality in 2001 and 2002. Treatments consisted of two cotton cultivars and 5 kg/ha of K treatments applied at bloom and repeated on a 14-day intervals for a total of three applications and a control. Foliar K treatments were found to significantly increase boll number/plant, boll weight, seed cotton yield and lint yield in both years. The greatest increases in yields were obtained with foliar K applications beginning from two weeks after first bloom. The K concentrations of blades of K-treated plants were greater than those of the control tissues. Leaf blade K levels tended to decline weekly until the fourth week of bloom. No significant differences in fiber properties by K treatments were observed.

Keyword: Cotton, foliar K application, leaf K concentration, fiber quality, yield ,

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