Effect of sowing date and plant population on biomass, grain yield and yieldcomponents of wheat
2004
Wajid, A. | Hussain, A. | Ahmad, A. | Goheer, A.R. | Ibrahim, M. | Mussaddique, M.,University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (Pakistan). Dept. of Agronomy
This study was conducted to investigate the effect of sowing date and plantpopulation on biomass, grain yield and components of yield. The early sowing (10Nov.) gave higher grain yield over late sowing (10 Dec.) by 60.6%. Differences-ingrant yield between 10 Nov. and 25 Dec. sowing were also significant (45%).Increasing plant population from 200 plant m-2 to 300 and 400 plant m-2 alsoenhanced grain yield but the response was quadratic. The higher grain yield inearly sowing was due to higher number of ears m-2 and mean grain weight thanlate sowing. Early sowings also enhanced biomass accumulation over late sowing.The study confirmed that optimum planting time of wheat is early November forobtaining higher grain yield under agro-ecological conditions of Faisalabad.
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