Abstract
Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) is being considered for commercial production in the southeastern USA, but very little is known about its potential and the appropriate management practices required to achieve sustainable yield potential in the area. This study thus aims to determine the optimal planting date and row spacing for several sesame cultivars. Traits examined were yield, plant height, number of nodes on the main stem, number of branches, height to first capsule on the main stem, and number of plants per meter. A first trial investigated three planting dates in Citra, FL (May, June, and July); whereas a second one examined several row spacings at two locations: 19 and 38.1 cm in Citra; and 19, 38.1, and 76.2 cm in Live Oak, FL. The May planting date showed higher yields, number of nodes, and taller plants than the other dates. Accumulated air and soil growing degree days (GDDs), rainfall, and solar radiation values were calculated for each planting date in both years. Soil GDDs provided similar results to air GDDs; thus, either model would seem appropriate for predicting crop development in this region. Plant height, number of nodes with capsules, and number of branches were increased at wider row spacings in the Live Oak trials as compared with narrow rows. These two trials illustrated the potential of sesame for attaining economically sustainable yields in the southeastern USA, but further exploration and modeling of agronomic traits will be needed to reach the crop’s full yield potential in these regions.
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Claims 9
Claim · model-written summary
May planting produced higher sesame yields than other dates.
- Taxon
- Sesame
Sesamum indicumt0 - Treatment
- May planting datee0
- Outcome
- yieldse0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- other datese0
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Verbatim
e0“The May planting date showed higher yields, number of nodes, and taller plants than the other dates”
t0“Sesame”
Claim · model-written summary
May planting produced more sesame stem nodes than other dates.
- Taxon
- SesameSesamum indicumt0
- Treatment
- May planting datee0
- Outcome
- number of nodese0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- other datese0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The May planting date showed higher yields, number of nodes, and taller plants than the other dates”
t0“Sesame”
Claim · model-written summary
May planting produced taller sesame plants than other dates.
- Taxon
- SesameSesamum indicumt0
- Treatment
- May planting datee0
- Outcome
- taller plantse0
- Direction
- tallere0
- Comparator
- other datese0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The May planting date showed higher yields, number of nodes, and taller plants than the other dates”
t0“Sesame”
Claim · model-written summary
Soil growing degree days gave similar results to air growing degree days for predicting sesame development.
- Taxon
- SesameSesamum indicumt0
- Outcome
- similar resultse0
- Qualifier
- predicting crop development in this regione0
- Comparator
- air GDDse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Soil GDDs provided similar results to air GDDs; thus, either model would seem appropriate for predicting crop development in this region”
t0“sesame”
Claim · model-written summary
Sesame plant height increased at wider row spacing in Live Oak.
- Taxon
- SesameSesamum indicumt0
- Treatment
- wider row spacingse0
- Outcome
- Plant heighte0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- narrow rowse0
- Setting
- Live Oake0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Plant height, number of nodes with capsules, and number of branches were increased at wider row spacings in the Live Oak trials as compared with narrow rows”
t0“Sesame”
Claim · model-written summary
Sesame nodes with capsules increased at wider row spacing in Live Oak.
- Taxon
- SesameSesamum indicumt0
- Treatment
- wider row spacingse0
- Outcome
- number of nodes with capsulese0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- narrow rowse0
- Setting
- Live Oake0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Plant height, number of nodes with capsules, and number of branches were increased at wider row spacings in the Live Oak trials as compared with narrow rows”
t0“Sesame”
Claim · model-written summary
Sesame branch number increased at wider row spacing in Live Oak.
- Taxon
- SesameSesamum indicumt0
- Treatment
- wider row spacingse0
- Outcome
- number of branchese0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- narrow rowse0
- Setting
- Live Oake0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Plant height, number of nodes with capsules, and number of branches were increased at wider row spacings in the Live Oak trials as compared with narrow rows”
t0“Sesame”
Claim · model-written summary
The trials indicated economically sustainable sesame yields are possible in the southeastern USA.
- Taxon
- sesameSesamum indicume0
- Outcome
- potential of sesame for attaining economically sustainable yieldse0
- Setting
- southeastern USAe0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“These two trials illustrated the potential of sesame for attaining economically sustainable yields in the southeastern USA”
Claim · model-written summary
Further exploration and modeling of agronomic traits is needed to reach full sesame yield potential.
- Taxon
- SesameSesamum indicumt0
- Outcome
- further exploration and modeling of agronomic traitse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“further exploration and modeling of agronomic traits will be needed to reach the crop’s full yield potential in these regions”
t0“Sesame”
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