Growth and biomass productivity of kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus, L.) under different agricultural inputs and management practices in central Greece
| Autor: | Sotirios V. Archontoulis, N. G. Danalatos |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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simulation-model
Irrigation sowing date water Biomass irrigation nitrogen Crop northern australia Evapotranspiration crop Leerstoelgroep Gewas- en onkruidecologie biology business.industry Sowing biology.organism_classification PE&RC yield Kenaf Horticulture Agronomy Productivity (ecology) cultivation tropical australia Agriculture Environmental science business Crop and Weed Ecology Agronomy and Crop Science |
| Zdroj: | Industrial Crops and Products 32 (2010) 3 Industrial Crops and Products, 32(3), 231-240 |
| ISSN: | 0926-6690 2003-2005 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.indcrop.2010.04.013 |
| Popis: | The growth and biomass productivity of kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus, L.) cultivars Tainung 2 and Everglades 41 were determined under three irrigation applications (low: 25%, moderate: 50% and fully: 100% of maximum evapotranspiration; ETm), four nitrogen dressings (0, 50, 100 and 150 kg hat), two sowing dates, and two plant densities (20 and 30 pl m(-2)) in two field experiments carried out on an representative aquic soil of western Thessaly plain (central Greece), in the period 2003-2005. The results demonstrated a paramount effect of sowing time (and thus the availability of the vegetative growing period) on crop growth and biomass productivity; delayed sowings (after mid-May) may reduce biomass production by 38%. Irrigation water had a significant effect (P 0.05) on biomass accumulation. Cultivars performed similar growth rates (no significant differences), which under full water and nitrogen inputs reached maximum growth rates of 180-220 kg ha(-1) day(-1) which may serve as reference for the assessment of crop performance under production situations at hierarchically lower input and management levels for central Greek conditions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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