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AGRONOMIC PERFORMANCES OF TALL AND SEMIDWARF GENOTYPES OF DURUM WHEAT

Necdet Budak, Zihin Yıldırım, Metin B. Yıldırım

Abstract

A total of 69 durum wheat genotypes were grown at Bornova in the 1996-97 and the 1997- 98 growing seasons according to Randomized Completed Block Design with two replications. Plant height, spike length, heading date, plot yield, thousand kernel weight, biomass and harvest index were measured. They were also classified into two groups as semidwarfs (GA-insensitive) and the talls (GA- sensitive) based on GA tests conducted in the laboratory. Semidwarf genotypes had relatively lower plant height and days to heading than the tall wheats. As expected, semidwarfs had higher harvest index than the tall wheats. Both semidwarf and tall genotypes had significant interactions with year for plant height, spike length and biomass. The semidwarf genotypes responded differently to the years than the tall wheats for spike length, heading date, plot yield and harvest index. Harvest index was found to be significantly different among all genotypes even though there were no significant yield differences between the semidwarfs and the talls. It was also noticed that the semidwarfs had lower biomass production than the talls and they gave relatively higher or similar yields in comparision to tall wheats.

Keyword: wheat genotypes ,semidwarfs and talls ,

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