Dry Matter Accumulation As A Yield Indicator For Soyabeans (Glycine max L) In The Humid Tropical Rain Forest Zone

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
BFD Oko ◽  
AE Uko
Keyword(s):  
Glycine Max ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Tropical Rain Forest ◽  
Dry Matter ◽  
Dry Matter Accumulation ◽  
Forest Zone

Spathodea campanulata (African tulip tree).

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julissa Rojas-Sandoval ◽  
Pedro Acevedo-Rodríguez ◽  
Nick Pasiecznik
Keyword(s):  
West Coast ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Tropical Rain Forest ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Secondary Forests ◽  
The West ◽  
Forest Zone ◽  
Southern Sudan ◽  
Forest Region ◽  
Tulip Tree

Abstract S. campanulata is a medium-size tree up to 35 m tall and 175 cm in diameter. It is indigenous to Africa where it extends along the west coast from Ghana to Angola and inland across the tropical rain forest region to southern Sudan and Uganda. It grows naturally in secondary forests in the high forest zone and in deciduous transition and savanna forests. In Uganda, it is one of the trees that colonizes grasslands. It grows well in areas with an even distribution of rainfall but will tolerate a dry season of up to six months. It grows on a wide variety of sites, from poorly to excessively drained, but prefers fertile, deep and well-drained loams.

N2 fixation and dry matter and N accumulation in soybean lines with different seed-fill periods

1992 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 1067-1074 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. L. Vasilas ◽  
R. L. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Glycine Max ◽  
Seed Yield ◽  
Dry Matter ◽  
Dry Matter Accumulation ◽  
N Accumulation ◽  
Total N ◽  
Glycine Max L ◽  
Small Plot ◽  
Total Plant ◽  
Seed Fill

A positive relationship generally exists between the duration of seed-fill period (SFP) and seed yield in soybean, but exceptions have been reported. The objective of this research was to determine if differences in N2 fixation or N accumulation could explain inconsistent relationships between duration of SFP and seed yield in soybean. For this study, five experimental soybean (Glycine max L. [Men.]) lines were selected on the bases of differences in SFP and seed yield in previous experiments. The experiment was designed to compare lines differing in both SFP and seed yield, differing in SFP but not seed yield, and differing in seed yield but not SFP. Total N2 fixation, using 15N-dilution techniques; total N accumulation, using a semi-micro-Kjeldahl procedure; and total dry matter accumulation, including all vegetative material abscised before maturity were measured on these lines grown in a Flanagan silt loam (fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Aquic Argiudolls) in 1984 and 1985 at Urbana, IL. Mean dinitrogen fixed ranged from 36 to 76 kg ha−1 in 1984 and from 65 to 113 kg ha−1 in 1985. The percentage of the total plant N derived from fixation ranged from 17 to 35% in 1984 and from 32 to 48% in 1985. Statistically significant differences in seed yield were not detected in this experiment because of the high coefficient of variation associated with the small plot size. High N2 fixation was not related to duration of SFP or previous seed yield classification. Total plant N did not differ among these genotypes. For these soybean lines differences in duration of SFP and previous seed yield classification were not related to total N2 fixation or N accumulation.Key words: Glycine max, harvest index, N partitioning, N2 fixation, seed-fill period

Comparative growth of maize cultivars with different leaf orientation

1982 ◽  
Vol 99 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. U. Remison ◽  
J. M. Fajemisinf
Keyword(s):  
Rain Forest ◽  
Harvest Index ◽  
Dry Matter ◽  
Control Treatment ◽  
Forest Zone ◽  
N Application ◽  
Area Index ◽  
Leaf Orientation ◽  
Maize Hybrids ◽  
Maize Cultivars

SUMMARYTwo maize hybrids, NHYB-1 and NHYB-2 with upright leaf orientation, and two composites, FARZ 27 and 34 with lax leaf orientation, were compared. The crops were grown at three levels of nitrogen (0, 75 and 150 kg N/ha) at Ibadan in the rain forest zone of Nigeria in 1979 and 1980.N application increased leaf area index (LAI) and hastened flowering. The composites had greater LAI than the hybrids. Lodging was greater at harvest than at mid-silk and severer in the hybrids than in the composites. Grain, stover and total dry-matter yields were greater for the composites.The hybrids were more responsive to N application in 1979 but the pattern was not consistent in 1980. More dry matter was partitioned to the grain in the hybrids as shown by their higher harvest index, especially in 1979. The concentration of N in ear leaf and stover increased with increase in N application, but P and K concentrations in the stover were highest in the control treatment.

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