Grain Yield Of Triticale Research Articles

Response of Triticale Grain Yield and Yield Components to Number of Cuttings in a Mediterranean Environment

AbstractIn six field experiments conducted over 2 years, the effect of one or two cuttings on grain yield of triticale (×Triticosecale Wittmack) were investigated. In addition, the relationships between triticale grain yield its components were analysed.Grain yield of the uncut plots invariably exceeded the plots with one or two cuttings, regardless of the environment or year. The reductions in grain yield caused by one cutting ranged from 27 % to 60 % under rainfed conditions and 18 % to 20 % under irrigation. With two cuttings the reduction was 45 % to 70 % for rainfed, and 35 % to 48 % for irrigated conditions.The yield components which most influenced grain yield of triticale under cutting treatment were the number of ears m−2 in all six experiments and the number of grains per ear under rainfed conditions. At the rainfed sites in 1989 cuttings diminished the number of ears m−2 mainly by increasing plant mortality. Nevertheless, at the rainfed sites of 1990 and at the irrigated site of both years, the reduction in the number of ears m−2 with cuttings was due principally to a lower survival of tillers per plant.

Evaluation of the Bray 1, calcium acetate lactate (CAL), Truog and Colwell soil tests as predictors of triticale grain production on soil fertilized with superphosphate and rock phosphate

In a field experiment in Western Australia, six different levels of three different phosphorus (P) fertilizers (triple superphosphate, TSP; Queensland (Duchess) rock phosphate, QRP; North Carolina rock phosphate, NCRP) were applied at the start of the experiment in 1984. Grain yield of triticale (×Triticosecale) was measured from 1984 to 1988. In February-March of each year from 1985 to 1988, soil samples were collected to measure soil extractable P (soil test values) using four reagents (Bray 1, calcium acetate lactate (CAL), Truog and Colwell). Soil test values were related to triticale grain yields, determined either as absolute yield or percentage of the maximum yield, produced later on in each year. The relationship differed with fertilizer type, reagent and year. All four soil test reagents were equally predictive of yield. It is concluded that these soil P tests provide crude predictions of plant yield regardless of the reagent used.