Abstract
The study investigated a Polish white lupin ‘Butan’, and its yielding depending on the interrow width and plant density.The mean many-year lupin seed yield was 3.05 t ha-1 and it strongly depended on the total rainfall and total temperature over the generative plant development. The mean discrepancy in the seed yield across the research years, due to a considerable variation in the total rainfall, ranged from 1.59 t ha-1 to 7.43 t ha-1. There was no significant effect of the factors applied on white lupin yielding. Only the number of pods per plant depended on the factors and it was significantly higher when lupin was grown in narrow rows, with the lowest plant density. Also, HI and SPAD values were significantly higher for 16 cm row width. The LAI value did not depend significantly on neither of the two factors. Content and yield of protein depended proportionally on the sum and distribution of precipitation in the following years.
Highlights
White lupin seeds have been used in human nutrition and treatment for thousands of years
Values of a parameter followed by the same letter did not differ significantly between row spacing and density (ANOVA followed by Tuckey’s HDS test. p < 0.05)
Y x Row spacing (RS) x Plant density (PD) ns ns ns ns Values of a parameter followed by the same letter did not differ significantly between year, row spacing and density (ANOVA followed by Tuckey’s HDS test. p < 0.05)
Summary
White lupin seeds have been used in human nutrition and treatment for thousands of years. In Brazil white lupin is considered an important alternative crop used for a recovery of degraded soils and sowing it increases succeeding crops yielding, including maize (Santi et al 2016). According to Lucas et al (2015), lupins, as other legumes, can become an alternative for the imported soybean in Europe. Many researchers point to a considerable effect of unfavourable weather conditions on white lupin yielding, mostly drought (Putnam et al 1992, Šariková et al 2011, Vadez et al 2012, Borowska et al 2017, Farooq et al 2017, Annicchiarico et al 2018, Faligowska et al 2018). High yields of white lupine seeds can be obtained with sufficient humidity in the second half of summer (Shcherbynal at al. 2021), the interaction of yield and yield stability of the cultivars grown is more important (Atnaf at al. 2017)
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