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Changing Plant Architecture and Density can Increase Chickpea Productivity and Facilitate for Mechanical Harvesting

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/11134/
https://doi.org/10.1007/s42106-019-00047-7
10.1007/s42106-019-00047-7
 
Title Changing Plant Architecture and Density can Increase Chickpea Productivity and Facilitate for Mechanical Harvesting
 
Creator Singh, U
Gaur, P M
Chaturvedi, S K
Hazra, K K
Singh, G
 
Subject Chickpea
 
Description Tall and erect chickpea cultivar HC 5 (Haryana Chana 5) was primarily bred for inter-cropping with autumn planted sugarcane. Cultivar HC 5 is distinctly different in morphology from traditional bushy or semi-spreading chickpea cultivars and it is found suitable for machine harvesting. However, a general recommended planting density (30 cm × 10 cm) is being followed for cv. HC 5 as well. In this study, we hypothesized that high-density planting can improve crop productivity and also improve the plant architecture for mechanical harvesting. To test this hypothesis, four plant spacing treatments (30 cm × 10 cm, 30 cm × 7.5 cm, 22.5 cm × 10 cm, and 22.5 cm × 7.5 cm) were evaluated in two chickpea cultivars (HC 5 and JAKI 9218) for crop growth, grain yield and the desirable plant traits for mechanical harvesting. The highest grain yield of cv. HC 5 was observed with 22.5 cm × 10 cm spacing that increased the grain yield by 9% (p 
 
Publisher Springer
 
Date 2019-03
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11134/1/Changing%20Plant%20Architecture%20and%20Density%20can%20Increase%20Chickpea.pdf
Singh, U and Gaur, P M and Chaturvedi, S K and Hazra, K K and Singh, G (2019) Changing Plant Architecture and Density can Increase Chickpea Productivity and Facilitate for Mechanical Harvesting. International Journal of Plant Production (TSI). pp. 1-10. ISSN 1735-8043