Claim · model-written summary
Irrigation increased pearl millet ear head girth, test weight and yield versus rainfed conditions.
- Taxon
- pearl millet
Cenchrus americanuse0 - Treatment
- irrigated conditione0
- Outcome
- ear head girth, test weight and yielde0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- rainfed conditione0
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Verbatim
e0“irrigated condition recorded significantly (p < 0.05) higher plant height, dry matter accumulation, root dry weight, ear head girth, test weight and yield of pearl millet than rainfed condition.”
Title
Performance of pearl millet genotypes under irrigated and rainfed conditions at Hisar, India
Arvind Kumar Yadav; Anil Kumar; Jagdev Singh; et al. Journal of Applied and Natural Science 2014. doi:10.31018/jans.v6i2.431
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Irrigation increased pearl millet plant height, dry matter accumulation and root dry weight versus rainfed conditions.
- Intervention effect Root length was significantly higher in rainfed than irrigated pearl millet.
- Association HHB 234 had higher plant height at harvest than other genotypes.
- Association HHB 223 had higher earhead girth of 2.6 cm than other genotypes.
- Association HHB 223 had higher test weight of 11.16 g than other genotypes.
- Association Genotype and environment interacted significantly for plant height, dry matter accumulation and root length.
- Association Genotype and environment interacted significantly for root weight and yield.
- Association HHB 223 under irrigation and HHB 234 under rainfed conditions had higher combined performance traits.
- Association At 20 days after sowing, HHB 67 Improved had the longest root under rainfed conditions.
- Association At 20 days after sowing, HHB 197 had the longest root under irrigated conditions.