Response of Two Fenugreek Trigonella foenum-graecum Varieties to Different Cutting Dates and Nitrogen Fertilizer for Growth and Forage Yield Traits under Rainfed Condition | ||
| Journal of Tikrit University For Agriculture Sciences | ||
| Article 1, Volume 17, Issue 0, February 2017, Pages 134-142 | ||
| Author | ||
| Sanarya R. Muhammed | ||
| Abstract | ||
| In order to study the response of two fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum L.) varieties to different cutting dates and nitrogen fertilizer for growth and forage yield traits, a field experiment was conducted at Faculty of Agricultural Sciences University of Sulaimani, during 2014 - 2015 using split split plots based on randomized complete block design with 3 replications. Two varieties of Fenugreek (Mithe and EP 101) as the main factor and two levels of nitrogen (0 and 40 kg/ha) as sub plots and two cutting dates as sub sub-plots were investigated. Means comparison were carried out using least significant difference test (LSD) at 0.05 significant levels. The results indicated that there was not significant effect of nitrogen fertilizer on all growth and forage yield characters, but regarding the varieties the effect was not significant for most traits with the exception of the characters no. of tillers/plant, fresh forage yield (t/ha), dry forage yield (t/ha), and %dry matter which was found to be significant, EP 101variety recorded maximum values with 2.915, 12.85 t/ha, 1.654 t/ha for the traits no. of tillers/plant, fresh forage yield, and dry forage yield respectively, while Mithe variety gave maximum percent of dry matter with %13.980. Concerning cutting treatments on studied traits was significant on all growth and forage yield characters with the exception of the characters no. of tillers/plant, no. of leaves/plant and dry matter% which was found to be not significant. The second cutting date out yielded the first cutting date significantly and gave maximum values of( plant height, %fresh stem, %dry stem, fresh weight/plant, fresh forage yield and dry forage yield) with (61.465cm, %57.681, %6.803, 10.037gm, 15.029 and 1.978 t/ha)) respectively, while the first cutting date out yielded the second cutting date in the characters (%fresh leaf, %dry leaf , leaf/stem ratio and dry weight/plant) with the values (%67.254, %10.711, 2.188 and 1.706gm) respectively. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| fenugreek; nitrogen fertilizer; cutting dates; Varieties; fresh yield; dry yield; Dry matter | ||
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