Influence of sweet corn seed vigors on yield and optimum seeding rate
1993
Supot Faungfupong | Juangjun Duangpatra | Gunching Siriwitayawan | Surapol Chowchong (Kasetsart Univ., Bangkok (Thailand). Faculty of Agriculture. Dept. of Agronomy)
Works consisted of two parts. Seeds of sweet corn variety Thai Super Sweet Composite DMR no.1 were pretreated in the laboratory in order to obtain three vigor levels of seeds namely high (86-100 percent germination), medium (76-85 percent germination) and low 65-75 percent germination). These seeds were then field-tested at the National Corn and Sorghum Research Center during August-October of 1990 using a split plot design. Five seeding methods were the main plot and three levels of seed vigor as the sub-plot. The identical experiments were carried out under both irrigation and rainfed conditions. The results showed the superiority of using high vigor seed to those of medium and low vigor seeds respectively on stand establishment, plant growth and sweet corn yield. It was recommended that farmers should adopted high vigor seed for planting and without over-planting of seed. For medium and low vigor seeds 1.5 and 2.0 times greater than the desirable plant numbers of seed should be dropped at planting.
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