RESPONE OF WHEAT PRODUCTIVITY TO DIFFERENT LEVELS OF SOIL MOISTURE REGIME AND MINERAL NITROGEN FERTILIZATION UNDER THE NILE ALLUVIAL SOILS. | ||||
Fayoum Journal of Agricultural Research and Development | ||||
Article 29, Volume 23, Issue 1, January 2009, Page 94-105 PDF (269.78 K) | ||||
Document Type: Research articles. | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/fjard.2009.197040 | ||||
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Authors | ||||
M.M. Ewis; Y.M.H. Hassan | ||||
Soil, Water and Environment Institute, Agricultural Research Center. | ||||
Abstract | ||||
A field experiment was conducted during two successive seasons of 2004/2005 and 2005/2006 at Sids Agric. Res. Station BeniSuef to study the response of wheat yield (grain and straw yields), its components (number of spike/m2, number of grains/spike, grains weight/spike and 1000-grain weight), water consumptive use (WCU) and water use efficiency (WUE) to three levels of moisture regime (irrigation at 25-30, 50-55 and 75-80% of available soil moisture depletion) and nitrogen (50,75 and 100 kg N/fed.) under the prevailing conditions of the clayey Nile alluvial soil. The most important results could be summarized as follows: 1- Irrigating the soil at 50-55% depletion of the available water range (SMD) produced the greatest values of number of spike/m2, number of grains/spike, grains weight/spike, 1000-grain weight, grain yield and water use efficiency. 2- The highest values of straw yield and water consumptive use were recorded when plants subjected to irrigate at 25-30% SMD. 3- Increasing nitrogen levels up to 100 kg/fed. produced high increases in each of the studied plant characters as well as improved water consumptive use and water use efficiency. | ||||
Keywords | ||||
Wheat; yield components; water consumptive use; water use efficiency | ||||
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