Response of two fenugreek trigonella foenum-graecum varieties to different cutting dates and nitrogen fertilizer for growth and forage yield traits under rainfed condition

Other Title(s)

استجابة صنفين من الحلبة لمواعيد حش مختلفة و السماد النايتروجيني على صفات النمو و حاصل العلف تحت الظروف الديمية

Author

Muhammad, Sanarya Rafiq

Source

مجلة تكريت للعلوم الزراعية

Publisher

Tikrit University College of Agriculture

Publication Date

2017-12-31

Country of Publication

Iraq

No. of Pages

9

Main Subjects

Botany

Topics

• Agriculture
• Fertilizers
• Plant taxonomy
• Twenty-first century
• Nitrogen fertilizers
• Sulaymaniyah
• Growth
• Fenugreek

English Abstract

In order to study the response of two fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum L.) varieties to different cutting dates and nitrogen fertilizer for growth and forage yield traits, a field experiment was conducted at Faculty of Agricultural Sciences University of Sulaimani, during 2014 - 2015 using split split plots based on randomized complete block design with 3 replications.

Two varieties of Fenugreek (Mithe and EP 101) as the main factor and two levels of nitrogen (0 and 40 kg/ha) as sub plots and two cutting dates as sub sub-plots were investigated.

Means comparison were carried out using least significant difference test (LSD) at 0.05 significant levels.

The results indicated that there was not significant effect of nitrogen fertilizer on all growth and forage yield characters, but regarding the varieties the effect was not significant for most traits with the exception of the characters no.

of tillers/plant, fresh forage yield (t/ha), dry forage yield (t/ha), and %dry matter which was found to be significant, EP 101variety recorded maximum values with 2.915, 12.85 t/ha, 1.654 t/ha for the traits no.

of tillers/plant, fresh forage yield, and dry forage yield respectively, while Mithe variety gave maximum percent of dry matter with %13.980.

Concerning cutting treatments on studied traits was significant on all growth and forage yield characters with the exception of the characters no.

of tillers/plant, no.

of leaves/plant and dry matter% which was found to be not significant.

The second cutting date out yielded the first cutting date significantly and gave maximum values of( plant height, %fresh stem, %dry stem, fresh weight/plant, fresh forage yield and dry forage yield) with (61.465cm, %57.681, %6.803, 10.037gm, 15.029 and 1.978 t/ha)) respectively, while the first cutting date out yielded the second cutting date in the characters (%fresh leaf, %dry leaf , leaf/stem ratio and dry weight/plant) with the values (%67.254, %10.711, 2.188 and 1.706gm) respectively.

Data Type

Conference Papers

Record ID

BIM-843583

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