Abstract
Background: Only scattered information is available on the tillage and nutrient management information for the sesame crop following rice in the literature. Sesame as an edible oil yielding crop with high levels of unsaturated fatty acids has high international demand due to superior health benefits. Being a small seeded crop, it requires standard tillage and nutrient management to obtain optimum productivity under rice fallow ecologies. As a sequential crop after rice harvest, the tillage and nutrient management practices followed for the preceding rice have astounding effects on the succeeding sesame crop. To better understand and manipulate the agro ecology in the rice fallow culture, it is necessary to study the behaviour of sesame cultivars, in relation to the tillage requirements and macro nutrient factors that have a bearing on the productivity. Methods: The aim of this work was to evaluate the productivity of rice fallow sesame in the southern plateau and hills regions of the Indian sub-continent (Tamil Nadu) with a hypothesis that tillage and nutrient management would immensely benefit the sesame crop. Field experiments were conducted at TNAU, Tamil Nadu Rice Research Institute, Aduturai, Tamil Nadu during 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 with tillage practices (reduced tillage, conventional tillage and zero tillage) and fertilizer doses (zero percent RDF, 25% RDF, 50% RDF, 75% RDF and 100% RDF) in a split plot design replicated thrice. Results: The results have clearly indicated that the performance of rice fallow sesame was poor under zero till conditions as the sesame crop is poorly adapted leading to a yield penalty up to 68%. A total of 75% RDF has yielded statistically similar yield to that of 100% RDF to the rice fallow sesame. Further, neither the oil content nor the fatty acid composition was modified by tillage and nutrient management regimes.
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Claim · model-written summary
Zero tillage reduced sesame performance with yield penalty up to 68%.
- Taxon
- sesame
Sesamum indicume0 - Treatment
- zero tille0
- Outcome
- yield penaltye0
- Direction
- poore0
- Value
- up to 68%e0
- Comparator
- conventional tillagee1
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Verbatim
e0“performance of rice fallow sesame was poor under zero till conditions as the sesame crop is poorly adapted leading to a yield penalty up to 68%.”
e1“reduced tillage, conventional tillage and zero tillage”
Claim · model-written summary
The 75% RDF dose produced statistically similar sesame yield to 100% RDF.
- Taxon
- sesameSesamum indicume0
- Treatment
- 75% RDFe0
- Outcome
- yielde0
- Direction
- statistically similare0
- Comparator
- 100% RDFe0
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e0“A total of 75% RDF has yielded statistically similar yield to that of 100% RDF to the rice fallow sesame.”
Claim · model-written summary
Tillage and nutrient management regimes did not modify sesame oil content.
- Taxon
- sesameSesamum indicumt0
- Treatment
- tillage and nutrient management regimese0
- Outcome
- oil contente0
- Direction
- neithere0
Not reportedComparator
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e0“neither the oil content nor the fatty acid composition was modified by tillage and nutrient management regimes.”
t0“rabi season sesame”
Claim · model-written summary
Tillage and nutrient management regimes did not modify sesame fatty acid composition.
- Taxon
- sesameSesamum indicumt0
- Treatment
- tillage and nutrient management regimese0
- Outcome
- fatty acid compositione0
- Direction
- nore0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“neither the oil content nor the fatty acid composition was modified by tillage and nutrient management regimes.”
t0“rabi season sesame”
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