Abstract
A field experiment was conducted at Udaipur during the Rabi season of 2011 to 2012 to evaluate the effect of planting duration and salicylic acid (SA) application on yield, quality and nutrient uptake of Brassica species. The results revealed that crops sown during SMW (Standard Meteorological Week) 41 recorded significantly (p < 0.05) higher seed, stover and oil yields, N and P uptake in seed and stover than SMW 43 and SMW 45 sown crops. Amongst Brassica species, B. juncea var. Bio-902 proved superiority over Brassica juncea var. RGN-73 and Brassica campestris var. BSH-1 in terms of seed, stover and biological yield, and N and P uptake in seed and stover. The foliar spray of salicylic acid produced significantly (p < 0.05) higher seed yield and oil content compared to water spray. Key words: Planting duration, Brassica species, salicylic acid (SA), nutrient uptake.
Highlights
Production potentiality of mustard can be fully exploited with suitable agronomic practices and the selection of genotypes
Stover and biological yields and harvest index presented in Table 1 shows that the highest seed yield of 1971.11 kg ha-1 was obtained under SMW 41 sown crop which was significantly (p < 0.05) superior over SMW 43 and SMW 45 sown crop by 7.8 and 34.1%, respectively
It was noted that the crop sown on SMW 43 gave significantly (p < 0.05) higher seed yield
Summary
Production potentiality of mustard can be fully exploited with suitable agronomic practices and the selection of genotypes. It was noted that the crop sown on SMW 43 gave significantly (p < 0.05) higher seed yield SMW 41 sown crop recorded the highest stover (4877.99 kg ha-1) and biological yields SMW 41 sown crop recorded significantly (p < 0.05) higher harvest index over
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