Effect of seed treatments and sowing depth on seed quality and yield of Ethiopian bread wheat cultivars
2006
Demissie Mitiku | J.C. Pretorios | F. Van Niekerk
The effects of two different seed treatments and sowing depth on seed quality and yield of two Ethiopian bread wheat cultivars were investigate in the laboratory and under field conditions. In the laboratory, a factorial experiment laid out in a complete randomized block design with four replications, was conducted. In the field trail a split-plot design was employed, where cultivars and fungicides were taken as main plot and sowing depth as sub-plots. In both experiments, significant to highly significant interactions effects were observed among fungicides and sowing depths study regarding some of the seed quality parameters measured. However, differences were non-significant for seedling root length. Shallow planting showed elevated grain and above ground biomass yields compared to deep planting. Highly significant differences in protein content, grain yield and above ground biomass yields were observed in seeds harvested from plants of which the seeds were initially treated or planted differently. Some of the results obtained from laboratory and field studies were correlated for some of the parameters measured.
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