Effect of nitrogen fertilizer and intercropping of wheat with some legumes of growth and yield wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

	Effect of nitrogen fertilizer and intercropping of wheat with some legumes of growth and yield wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)
Euphrates Journal of Agriculture Science
Article 1, Volume 6, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 105-113
Abstract
Abstract: A field experiment was carried out 2012-2013 on a silt clay loam soil , to study the effects of nitrogen and intercropping of wheat with some legumes on growth and yield of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) A factorial experiment in completely randomized block design with three replicates . consisted two level of nitrogen fertilizer (0 and 50 kg Nha-1 ) and seven cropping systems treatments : wheat , bean , berseem and grass pea as (a sole) and Intercropping of wheat with (bean , berseem and grass pea ) . the area experimental unit was 3mx5 The legumes were sown on October 15, while the wheat was sown on November 25, the nitrogen fertilizer was adders as urea (46%N). Intercropping of wheat with berseem caused significant increase in some characters such as plant height (80.03cm), number of grain per spike (35.26grain /spike), grain yield (4.44t.ha-1) and biological yield (15.02t.ha-1) while the other studied characters unaffected . The addition of 50kgN.ha-1 caused significant increases of plant height (19.8%) , flag leaf area (26.5%), chlorophyll content of flag leaf(40.2%), number of spikes (38.1%) , number of grain per spike(38.4%), grain weight (11.2%) ,grain yield (100.1%) ,biological yield (41.9%) . Intercropping of wheat with berseem gave a highest LER (1.07) while intercropping of wheat with bean (0.97) and with grass pea (1.02).

Statistics Article View: 176 PDF Download: 144