Saeed Sharafi
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Compensating water shortage requires the use of proper agricultural management methods. Thus, the present experiment aims at investigating different irrigation levels based on water requirement of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) on qualitative and quantitative yield of forage produced by combined cropping ...
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Compensating water shortage requires the use of proper agricultural management methods. Thus, the present experiment aims at investigating different irrigation levels based on water requirement of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) on qualitative and quantitative yield of forage produced by combined cropping patterns of sorghum and snail medic (Medicago scutellata L.). The experiment is conducted in split plots design based on randomized complete blocks with three replications in two years (2017-2018 and 2018-2019). The treatments include irrigation levels of 50%, 75%, 100%, and 125% (as the main plot) and cropping patterns sole-cropping sorghum, sole-cropping snail medic, cropping pattern of 100% sorghum with additive series of 50%, 75%, and 100% snail medic (as the subplot). Results show that the highest fresh and dry forage yield are obtained in 125% water requirement as well as 100% sorghum and 100% snail medic (with 53578.45 and 13302.68 kg ha-1). In addition to the effective application of land (land equivalent ratio = 1.29), fresh and dry forage yield have increased by 834 and 63.36 kg ha-1, respectively. The analysis of forage quality show that with a decrease in the portion of the snail medic, the percentage of protein has decreased by 11.05%. Also, the highest percentage of crude ash and digestible matter have been obtained in the treatment of sorghum sole cropping (11.79% and 81.04%, respectively) and the highest percentage of acid detergent fiber in the treatment of snail medic sole cropping (30.94%). According to the results, it is possible that the use of crop with low water requirements like snail medic in mix cropping system (100:100) increases the quality and quantity of forage, boosting water productivity as well.
Hassan Nouriyani
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In order to investigate the effect of different levels of nitrogen on some grain storage compounds and quantitative and qualitative yield of three sunflower cultivars, an experiment was carried out as split plots based on randomized complete block design with four replications in Dezful region during ...
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In order to investigate the effect of different levels of nitrogen on some grain storage compounds and quantitative and qualitative yield of three sunflower cultivars, an experiment was carried out as split plots based on randomized complete block design with four replications in Dezful region during 2017-2018. In this research, four levels of nitrogen fertilizer (0, 60, 120 and 180 kg ha-1 N) were considered as the main factor and three sunflower cultivars (Ghasem, Record and Progress) as a sub factor. The results showed that increasing nitrogen consumption reduced the percentage of oil, percentage of stearic acid and linoleic acid percentage but, protein percentage, oleic acid and palmitic acid percentage increased significantly. There were significant differences between different cultivars in grain yield and oil content where Qasem cultivar had the highest grain yield (3920 kg ha-1) and oil (1860 kg ha-1) with the consumption of 180 kg ha-1 N. Also, the results indicated that the highest correlation of grain yield with the studied traits belonged to oil yield (r=0.97**) followed by protein content (r=0.85**) and the lowest to linoleic acid (r=-0.58*). In general, it can be stated that more nitrogen consumption has been effective in increasing the quality and quantity of sunflower and Qasim cultivar had a higher ability to absorb nitrogen in order to increase yield per unit area.
Javad Hasanpour; Kaveh Zargari; Behnam Zand; mojtaba kanani
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In order to study the effects of planting date and cultivar on yield, protein percentage and physiological growth indices of Mungbean an experiment was conducted in Agriculture and Natural Resource Research Center of Tehran province in 2011-12. Four mungbean [Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek] cultivars (‘Parto’, ...
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In order to study the effects of planting date and cultivar on yield, protein percentage and physiological growth indices of Mungbean an experiment was conducted in Agriculture and Natural Resource Research Center of Tehran province in 2011-12. Four mungbean [Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek] cultivars (‘Parto’, ‘Gohar’, ‘Mehr’ and a promising line ‘NM-94’) were sown at 3 dates with 30 days intervals starting from 21 April to 22 June to identify the suitable variety(s) and optimum sowing date for getting maximum yield of mungbean. The design was a split-plot replicated three times with sowing date as main plots and cultivar as sub-plots. Promising line ‘NM-94’ was ranked first in terms of seed yield (1797.4 kg ha-1) followed in order of ‘Gohar’ (1674.8 kg ha-1). The highest seed yield (1678.2 kg ha-1) was obtained from 22 June sowing date. Delayed sowing caused to decrease of growth period length from 92.9 (for 22 April) to 82.6 (for 22 June) that it resulted to a significant decrease of vegetative growth indices such as plant height and biological yield. The maximum LAI and CGR were obtained at a longer time and had more value for earlier sowing dates. The growth period length decreased for the last sowing date, but early entering to flowering stage increased grain filling portion from total growth period. Sowing date had not a significant effect on protein percentage, but this effect was significant for varieties. ‘NM-94’ line and 22 June were the best choices for south east region of Tehran province.