Agronomic studies on Vigna spp. in south-eastern Queensland. I. Phenological response of cultivars to sowing date

1979 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 855 ◽  
Author(s):  
RJ Lawn

Phenological development of 16 cultivars from four Vigna species (V. radiata, green gram; V. mungo, black gram; V. angularis, adzuki bean; V. umbellata, rice bean) was studied over a range of 17 weekly sowing dates at Lawes in south-eastern Queensland. Cultivar and sowing date effects on phenology were large. In all cultivars, the rate of development during pre-flowering was associated negatively with mean day length and positively with mean maximum and/or mean minimum temperature. Cultivars differed in sensitivity to both photoperiod and temperature. Genetic lateness of flowering among cultivars was associated positively with increasing sensitivity to day length and negatively with the latitude of cultivar source. In the grams, early-flowering cultivars showed response to maximum temperatures, while the later-flowering lines responded to minimum temperatures. Rate of development in all four species during the reproductive phase was largely independent of cultivar and sowing date, per se, but rather appeared to depend on the day length and temperature regimes prevailing subsequent to the onset of flowering. The reproductive period in all species was shortest for those cultivar x sowing date combinations which commenced flowering in early autumn. Where flowering occurred in midsummer, i.e. for early sowings and for early cultivars, the reproductive period was extended as a consequence of prolonged flowering in response to the longer prevailing day lengths. As the date of flowering was delayed into mid or late autumn, the reproductive phase was extended owing to slower pod maturation rates in response to cooler prevailing temperatures. The implications of these responses on adaptation and agronomic utilization of these species are discussed.

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (No. 10) ◽  
pp. 503-507
Author(s):  
Nadia Gharechaei ◽  
Farzad Paknejad ◽  
Amir Hossein Shirani Rad ◽  
Ghasem Tohidloo ◽  
Hamid Jabbari

To assess the response of winter oilseed rape promising line genotypes to late-season drought stress in delayed cultivation conditions and select the superior genotypes, an experiment was conducted for two years (2015–16 and 2016–17) in Iran (Karaj). In this experiment, the sowing date was specified in two levels including timely cultivation (October 7) and delayed cultivation (October 27) and irrigation factor including normal irrigation and irrigation interruption from podding stage as factorial in main plots and four winter oilseed rape genotypes (L1030, L1204, L1110, and L1114) and a commercial cultivar (Okapi) were categorized in subplots. Applying drought stress after the podding stage declined the seed yield and seed oil yield, and the highest and lowest mean of these traits were observed in the L1204 and L1114 genotypes, respectively. The interaction effect of the sowing date × genotype on all the studied traits was significant. With the standard erucic acid, the genotype L1204 in both normal and delayed sowing dates had the highest seed yield of 5118 and 3015 kg/ha. Besides, with high oleic acid with a mean of 63.65% and the minimum amount of glucosinolate of seed with a mean of 21.55 μmol/g, this genotype is recommended in delayed cultivation conditions.  


1987 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 809
Author(s):  
MW Perry ◽  
KHM Siddique ◽  
JF Wallace

Dates of ear initation and anthesis were recorded for 16 wheat cultivars at a wide range of sowing dates in four field experiments conducted over four years.In general for the majority of cultivars number of days from sowing to ear initiation increased as sowing was delayed through May and then declined with sowings after June. The effects of sowing date and cultivar on anthesis were similar to those observed for ear initiation. Maximum time to anthesis was observed from sowings in early May.A linear regression model relating rate of development to mean temperature and photoperiod accounted for 47-98% of the variation in rate of development from sowing to ear initiation and from 68 to 98% of the variation from ear initiation to anthesis. A five-parameter non-linear model was also tested but was not superior. Observations in a single year were sufficient to characterize a cultivar provided the range of mean temperature and photoperiod was large.Comparison with data from other field sites of ear initiation and anthesis showed that the regression equations gave a good fit to the occurrence of these events when used in the incremental sense, that is, by summing increments of development rate calculated from daily temperature and photoperiod.The prediction model is discussed in relation to its application in simulation models of crop growth, analysis of cultivar adaptation to environments and in day-to-day crop management.


1977 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 381 ◽  
Author(s):  
WT Williams ◽  
CAP Boundy ◽  
AJ Millington

Thirteen measurements were obtained from 59 successive sowings of three cultivars of sorghum. Principal component analyses showed that growth could be regarded as consisting of three largely independent components: crop density, total photosynthate, and extension. The correlations of these components with environmental measurements are examined. There is a high negative correlation between grains per head and heads per plot; grain weight is independent of crop density or spacing; the relationship between grain weight and number varies with the cultivar, attaining a high negative value for the hybrid RS610. Compared with sorghum grown elsewhere in the world, grain weights in the Ord are normal, but the number of grains per head is unusually low. This does not appear to be a high temperature effect, since in the dwarf cultivars higher maximum temperatures resulted in an increased number of smaller grains. It is suggested that African dwarf cultivars sensitive to day length might be more appropriate for the Ord than the American cultivars currently grown.


1987 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 809
Author(s):  
MW Perry ◽  
KHM Siddique ◽  
JF Wallace

Dates of ear initation and anthesis were recorded for 16 wheat cultivars at a wide range of sowing dates in four field experiments conducted over four years.In general for the majority of cultivars number of days from sowing to ear initiation increased as sowing was delayed through May and then declined with sowings after June. The effects of sowing date and cultivar on anthesis were similar to those observed for ear initiation. Maximum time to anthesis was observed from sowings in early May.A linear regression model relating rate of development to mean temperature and photoperiod accounted for 47-98% of the variation in rate of development from sowing to ear initiation and from 68 to 98% of the variation from ear initiation to anthesis. A five-parameter non-linear model was also tested but was not superior. Observations in a single year were sufficient to characterize a cultivar provided the range of mean temperature and photoperiod was large.Comparison with data from other field sites of ear initiation and anthesis showed that the regression equations gave a good fit to the occurrence of these events when used in the incremental sense, that is, by summing increments of development rate calculated from daily temperature and photoperiod.The prediction model is discussed in relation to its application in simulation models of crop growth, analysis of cultivar adaptation to environments and in day-to-day crop management.


1979 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 871 ◽  
Author(s):  
RJ Lawn

Vegetative and reproductive growth of 16 cultivars from four Vigna spp. (V. radiata, green gram; V. mungo, black gram; V. angularis, adzuki bean; and V. umbellata, rice bean) were studied over a range of sowing dates at Lawes in south-eastern Queensland. Seed yield and total dry matter (DM) at maturity were highest in the black grams, and lowest in the adzuki beans. Within species, vegetative development was generally higher in the later-maturing cultivars, but the same was not true for seed yield. Harvest index was negatively associated with cultivar maturity in the grams and adzuki beans. All cultivars showed substantial response to sowing date, with highest total DM and seed yield for December sowings. Delayed sowings reduced growth such that for late February sowings, total DM at maturity and seed yields were generally less than one-tenth of the maximum. Harvest index revealed an optimum type response to sowing date, with highest values for late December/early January sowings. Phenological response per se was not a useful predictor of the effect of sowing date on yield or total DM for any of the 16 cultivars, since in all cases growth rates varied substantially with sowing date, apparently in response to temperature. The linear form of the Arrhenius equation relating mean growth rate and mean prevailing temperature provided an excellent description of the response of both yield and total DM accumulation rates over sowing dates for all cultivars. Among cultivars, there was a significant correlation between the slope of the Arrhenius plots (k values) for seed yield and total DM accumulation, implying similar relative temperature sensitivity for both growth processes. For the 16 cultivars tested, the absolute magnitude of the k values for both seed yield and total DM accumulation was significantly negatively correlated with the latitude from which the cultivars were introduced, which implied greater temperature sensitivity for cultivars from the tropics. Some implications of these responses on cultivar adaptation and cultural practices are discussed.


1992 ◽  
Vol 43 (7) ◽  
pp. 1629 ◽  
Author(s):  
AJ Taylor ◽  
CJ Smith

Response of canola (Brassica napus) to factorial combinations of five sowing dates and seeding rates was investigated from 1987 to 1989. The experiments were conducted on red-brown earths in the Goulburn-Murray Irrigation Region of south-eastern Australia. Crops were sown at monthly intervals beginning in April each year. In 1987, seeding rates were 4.6, 7.0 and 14 kg ha-1, but in 1988 and 1989 the lowest rate was eliminated. The cultivar Marnoo was used each year and Eureka was included in 1989. There was no difference between yields of seed and oil for crops sown in April and May, but yields of seed and oil declined when sowing date was delayed beyond May. Oil contents were greater than 45% for the April, May and June sowings in 1988 and 1989. In contrast, seeding rates had no effect on yields of seed and oil. Marnoo produced a maximum seed yield of 398 g m-2 from the May sowing in 1987, and a minimum seed yield of 172 g m-2 from the September sowing in 1988. In 1989, Eureka out-yielded Marnoo in all but the August sowing. Eureka produced a maximum seed yield of 483 g m-2 from the April sowing and its lowest seed yield of 315 g m-2 from the August sowing. The number of pods per m2 was the major factor responsible for the significant changes in yield in all experiments. Seed yield was also strongly correlated (P < 0.01) with biomass, and to a lesser degree, with individual seed weight in all comparisons with the exception of Marnoo in 1989.


2001 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-297
Author(s):  
S. O. Bakare ◽  
M. G. M. Kolo ◽  
J. A. Oladiran

There was a significant interaction effect between the variety and the sowing date for the number of productive tillers, indicating that the response to sowing date varied with the variety. A significant reduction in the number of productive tillers became evident when sowing was delayed till 26 June in the straggling variety as compared to sowing dates in May. Lower numbers of productive tillers were also recorded when the sowing of the erect variety was further delayed till 10 July. The grain yield data showed that it is not advisable to sow the straggling variety later than 12 June, while sowing may continue till about 26 June for the erect variety in the study area.


2011 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Lawn ◽  
A. T. James

The purpose of this paper and its companion1 is to describe how, in eastern Australia, soybean improvement, in terms of both breeding and agronomy, has been informed and influenced over the past four decades by physiological understanding of the environmental control of phenology. This first paper describes how initial attempts to grow soybean in eastern Australia, using varieties and production practices from the southern USA, met with limited success due to large variety × environment interaction effects on seed yield. In particular, there were large variety × location, variety × sowing date, and variety × sowing date × density effects. These various interaction effects were ultimately explained in terms of the effects of photo-thermal environment on the phenology of different varieties, and the consequences for radiation interception, dry matter production, harvest index, and seed yield. This knowledge enabled the formulation of agronomic practices to optimise sowing date and planting arrangement to suit particular varieties, and underpinned the establishment of commercial production in south-eastern Queensland in the early 1970s. It also influenced the establishment and operation over the next three decades of several separate breeding programs, each targeting phenological adaptation to specific latitudinal regions of eastern Australia. This paper also describes how physiological developments internationally, particularly the discovery of the long juvenile trait and to a lesser extent the semi-dwarf ideotype, subsequently enabled an approach to be conceived for broadening the phenological adaptation of soybeans across latitudes and sowing dates. The application of this approach, and its outcomes in terms of varietal improvement, agronomic management, and the structure of the breeding program, are described in the companion paper.


Agriculture ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 161
Author(s):  
Alberto A. Chassaigne-Ricciulli ◽  
Leopoldo E. Mendoza-Onofre ◽  
Leobigildo Córdova-Téllez ◽  
Aquiles Carballo-Carballo ◽  
Félix M. San Vicente-García ◽  
...  

Genotype, environmental temperature, and agronomic management of parents influence seed yield in three-way cross hybrid maize seed production. The objective of this research was to generate information on the seed production of six three-way cross hybrids and their progenitors, adapted to tropical lowlands. Data on days to—and duration of—flowering, distance to spike and stigmas, and seed yield of five female single crosses and five male inbred lines were recorded for different combinations of four planting densities and four sowing dates in Mexico. The effect of planting density was not significant. The male inbred line T10 was the earliest and highest seed yield and T31 the latest, occupying second place in yield. The single crosses T32/T10 and T13/T14 were the earliest and had the highest effective seed yield. At the earliest sowing date, the females were later in their flowering, accumulated fewer growing degree days (GDD), and obtained higher yields since the grain-filling period coincided with hot days and cool nights. To achieve greater floral synchronization and therefore greater production of hybrid seed, differential planting dates for parents are recommended based on information from the accumulated GDD of each parent. The three-way cross hybrids were classified according to the expected seed yield of the females and the complexity in the synchronization of flowering of their parents.


2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacira Silvano ◽  
Cristina L. C. Oliveira ◽  
Clarice B. Fialho ◽  
Hélio C. B. Gurgel

Specimens of Serrapinnus piaba were collected monthly from April 2001 to April 2002 in the rio Ceará Mirim, Rio Grande do Norte State, Brazil. The reproductive period, determined through the monthly variation of the gonadosomatic index (GSI) and maturation stages, occurred from January to April. Non-parametric Spearman test was performed in order to test correlation of monthly GSI variation in males and females with water temperature, rainfall and day length. Rainfall and Temperature were correlated with GSI variation in females only and day length showed a negative correlation with GSI variation of males only. It was verified the presence of hooks on the anal fin of mature and maturing males along all the period of study. The absolute fecundity mean was 441 (±178.08) oocytes, determined by the number of yolky oocytes counted in 27 mature female gonads. The relative fecundity, estimated by the number of yolky oocytes divided by milligram of total body weight was 0.74 (± 0.19).


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