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Effect of Sowing Date on the Growth and Yield of Lentil in a Rainfed Mediterranean Environment

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0014479700018809
 
Title Effect of Sowing Date on the Growth and Yield of Lentil in a Rainfed Mediterranean Environment
 
Creator Silim, S N
Saxena, M C
Erskine, W
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
Climate change
 
Description The effect of advancing the sowing date from early February to November on the growth and seed and straw yields of three large seeded and three small seeded lines of lentil (Lens culinaris) was studied under rainfed conditions in northern Syria between 1982 and 1985. The average seed and straw yields from early winter sowing were 838 and 2476 kg ha−1 compared with 679 and 1470 kg ha−1, respectively, from a late sown crop. There were seasonal differences in the advantage in seed yield from early sowing, largely because infestation by Orbanche species limited the use of early sowing. There were no overall differences between the growth and yields of large and small seeded lines, but genetic variation within groups was apparent for all characters. A high rate of dry matter accumulation, manifested as early vigour, was always related to a high final economic biomass
 
Publisher Cambridge University Press
 
Date 1991
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/8106/1/ExplAgric_27_145-154_1991.pdf
Silim, S N and Saxena, M C and Erskine, W (1991) Effect of Sowing Date on the Growth and Yield of Lentil in a Rainfed Mediterranean Environment. Experimental Agriculture, 27 (2). pp. 145-153. ISSN 0014-4797