Effect of sowing seasons and climatic conditions on growing period, flowering, total shoot length and maturing of lentil varieties
1984
Iliadis, C. (Ministry of Agriculture, Larissa (Greece). Fodder Crops and Pastures Inst.)
In an experiment which was established in Larissa for two years. (1976,1977) the effect of six sowing seasons (27/9, 7/10, 17/10, 6/11 and 16/11) and climatic conditions on growing period, flowering, total shoot length and maturity of seven lentil varieties, was studied. The results that the growing period in each variety was reduced as the sowing season was later and increased or decreased from year to year. High temperatures and low rainfalls during growing season diminished the growing period. Sowing 50 days earlier in each variety the beginning of flowering time happened earlier only 3-12 da1737ys according to variety behavior. Low rainfalls and high temperatures during winter stimulated the beginning of the varieties flowering (independently of sowing season) 13-18 days earlier. The flowering duration in each variety showed stability and slightly influenced from sowing seasons and climatic conditions. The plants of all sowing seasons in variety terminated their flowering simultaneously. The final shoot length which is controlled by the variety genotype is not influenced from sowing season, while the low rainfalls during the spring of the second year of experimentation diminished the final shoot length significantly mainly in early varieties. In the stage of pod maturity as soon as the highest temperature of the day exceeds 30 deg C., lentil plants independently of sowing season and variety conducted very soon (2-5 days) to drying for har
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