National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692 Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
A field experiment was conducted to study the performance of five wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) genotypes at two different sowing windows under irrigated condition during rabi season of 2016-2017 in Peninsular Zone at Experimental Research Farm, MACS-Agharkar Research Institute, Pune (MS).The experiment was laid out in a split plot design with three replications. The treatment consists of five wheat genotypes viz. DBW 168, MACS 6478, MACS 6222, GW 322 and UAS 304, were sown during two sowing windows, as timely (45 SMW) and late (48 SMW).Statistical analysis revealed that effect of sowing dates was found significant on days to heading, days to maturity, plant height, spikelets spike-1, effective tillersmeter-2, grains spike-1, harvest index. However, effect of various genotypes was also found significant on all traits except spikelets spike-1. In case of interaction effect of sowing windows and genotypes, the days to heading, days to maturity, plant height and grains spike-1 were found significant. Due to favorable climate, the timely sown wheat was shown highest grain yield (54.93 qha-1) over late sown wheat (50.86 qha-1) and the percent increase was 8%. Whereas, among different genotypes, the higher grain yield (57.45 qha-1) was recorded by MACS 6478, which was found at par with GW 322 (54.90 qha-1) and significantly superior to remaining three genotypes UAS 304, MACS 6222 and DBW 168. On mean basis, in timely and late sown condition, the MACS 6478 produced maximum grain yield (59.16 and 55.74 qha-1, respectively) compared to rest of genotypes. Whereas, all the growth, yield attributes and yield were found maximum under timely sown condition over late sown condition in peninsular zone.
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