Record Details

Population, Growth and Water Use of Groundnut Maintained on Stored Water. I. Root and Shoot Growth

OAR@ICRISAT

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/3514/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0014479700016446
 
Title Population, Growth and Water Use of Groundnut Maintained on Stored Water. I. Root and Shoot Growth
 
Creator Rao, R C N
Simmonds, L P
Azam-Ali, S N
Williams, J H
 
Subject Groundnut
 
Description The growth of roots and shoots was measured in stands of groundnut grown at a number of populations on stored water in central India. Total weight and length of roots per unit land area increased with population density, but the proportional increases were much less than for shoot weight. Consequently the root:total weight ratio increased from 0.3 in the densest stand to almost 0.5 in the widely spaced crop. The denser stands produced a greater proportion of their roots at depth. In wide rows there was little change in rooting density across the inter-row space.
Total dry matter per unit land area increased with population, although the weight per plant was less in denser stands. Although the crops were harvested prematurely, pod yield per unit land area, unlike total dry matter, was no greater in dense stands than in more widely spaced crops. The greatest number of pods per unit land area was recorded at an intermediate population density.
 
Publisher Cambridge University Press
 
Date 1989
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Rights —
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/3514/1/JA_538.pdf
Rao, R C N and Simmonds, L P and Azam-Ali, S N and Williams, J H (1989) Population, Growth and Water Use of Groundnut Maintained on Stored Water. I. Root and Shoot Growth. Experimental Agriculture, 25. pp. 51-61.