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Productivity response to plant density in five Sorghum bicolor varieties in dry environments

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Crop production and management including irrigation, fertilization and soil management

Abstract

DRYLAND characterizes by low fertility and poor structure. For sustainable agriculture, it needs some technologies application such as suitable variety and plant density for crop management to enhance crop performance. To study yield behavior under such conditions, two field trials were conducted using five sweet sorghum varieties (Brandes; V1, Honey; V2, Gk Áron; V3, Róna 1; V4 and GK Csaba; V5) and three plant densities (111000; D1, 133000; D2 and 166000; D3 plants ha-1). Results indicated that all varieties differed significantly in all tested parameters; growth, juice quality and yield and its components. Of all investigated varieties, the most productive was V1, while V5 was the least. Ethanol yield was recorded highest values with V1 over two seasons. On other side, V5 flowered 25 days earlier than V1. Time of 50% flowering and yields were increased with increase in plant density. The integrated V1×D3 found to be the best treatment generating highest ethanol (biofuel), yields and seed index over two studied seasons. Therefore, this integrated treatment is recommended for dry environments.

DOI

10.21608/agro.2016.302.1032

Keywords

Sweet sorghum, varieties, plant density, yield and quality, Dryland

Authors

First Name

Mostafa

Last Name

Rady

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Affiliation

Botany Dept., Fac. Agric., Fayoum Univ., 63514 Fayoum, Egypt

Email

mmr02@fayoum.edu.eg

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First Name

Ali

Last Name

Mekdad

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Affiliation

Agronomy Dept., Fac. Agric., Fayoum Univ., 63514 Fayoum, Egypt

Email

aam07@fayoum.edu.eg

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Orcid

0000-0002-2932-3044

Volume

38

Article Issue

3

Related Issue

240

Issue Date

2016-12-01

Receive Date

2016-10-22

Publish Date

2016-12-31

Page Start

531

Page End

546

Print ISSN

0379-3575

Online ISSN

2357-0288

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https://agro.journals.ekb.eg/article_1298.html

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https://agro.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=1298

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17

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Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Agronomy

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https://agro.journals.ekb.eg/

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Productivity response to plant density in five Sorghum bicolor varieties in dry environments

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Created At

22 Jan 2023