This thesis deals with the yield ability of chosen winter wheat varieties during growing season 2014/2015. Comparison of the two varieties (hybrid and linear). The experiment was established in standard and reduced seed rates and also in four replicates on the plot of Faculty of Agriculture, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice. Were examined yield components: the amount of spikes per 1 m2, amount of grains per spike and weight of thousand grains. During the vegetation observed were the amount of plants per 1 m2, each growth phase, the number of stalks per 1 m2 and plant height. Furthermore, measured were amounts of units of chlorophyll in plants using device N-Tester and the SunScan device sunlight usable for photosynthesis of plants wherein the processed values of leaf area index (LAI). At the end, compared were the theoretical and real yield and evaluated were spike length, amount of spikelets in spike and density.

The theme of this thesis is a comparison of the yield capability naked and hulled oat varieties. The work is divided into two sections. The first half of this thesis is devoted to literature search. The second part of this thesis describes the actual experiment, which was carried out in 2012 on the farm school University of South Bohemia (České Budějovice). 10 varieties of oats, 4 of them naked varieties and 6 hulled varieties, was used for this experiment. Highest average yield of hulled varieties reached Vok variety (3.85 tons per ha) and of naked varieties with a yield of 3.43 tons per hectare the Otakar variety. The average thousand grain weight was in naked varieties 28,7 grams and 33,4 grams hulled varieties. Number of grains per panicle reached 57 grains on average in nude varieties and 55 grains on average in hulled varieties. in nude varieties averaged 57 grains and 55 grains of hulled varieties.

The topic of this Diploma Thesis is "The yield ability comparison among varieties of winter wheat". The Thesis dealt with the yield ability of chosen winter wheat varieties grown in the Czech Republic. Twelve varieties were chosen for the measurement purposes. The experiment was done with kind cooperation with the South Bohemia University in České Budějovice, faculty of Agriculture during growing season 2011/2012 and 2012/2013 on its own land. The experiment was focused especially on the yield components creation number of ears, number of grains per ear, and weight of a thousand grains. Among those, the incidence of weed, diseases, pests were observed during the vegetation period. The number of plants and offshoots were rated. At the end, the theoretical and actual yield, ear length, and volume weight were compared.

On the basis of experiment was performed an evaluation of yield production of the selected spectrum of naked and hulled oat varieties. There were compared time-tested varieties to new varieties registered in the list of recommended varieties in 2013. At the same time were compared methods of yield production of hulled oat and naked oat. After evaluation of real yield was informatively compared the amount of raw food materials obtained from naked oat with the oat rice obtained from hulled oat by hulling machine.

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In the traditional agriculture, cultures and soils parameters are variable in space and time, also in the same field crops. Generally, yield and yield components are obtained without to keep in main the space variability of field data. The present work was carried out in a commercial farm of 110 hectares, localized in Palmeira das Missões, to evaluate space and temporarily yield production and the behavior of the morphologic characteristics of two maize hybrids: 32R21from Pionner and AG9020 from Agroceres, during 2003/2004 growing season under irrigation. Plant samples were collected once a month during five months to evaluate plant height, leaf area index (LAI), kernel weight, stem mass and leaf mass. At harvest were evaluated ear mass, grain number and weight of 1000 grain. Also was obtained harvest index for both hybrids corn. Yield production was calculated from field data collected manually and compared with data collected from the harvest machine and calculated from CR CAMPEIRO 5 software. The results showed space variability for most of yield components studied. There no significant differences in variability data. Corn hybrid AG9020 produced more than hybrid P32R21 with compare harvest machine data. The importance to know yield and yield components data variation, can result to know in other indicator of variability like soil variability or other parameters. / Na agricultura tradicional, os parâmetros das culturas e do solo variam no espaço e no tempo, dentro de uma mesma lavoura. Entretanto, a obtenção dos componentes da produtividade de grãos das culturas são obtidos sem a preocupação com a variabilidade espacial ou temporal dos dados. O presente trabalho foi realizado em uma lavoura comercial de 110 hectares, situada na cidade de Palmeira das Missões, com o objetivo de avaliar espacial e temporalmente a produtividade e o comportamento das características morfológicas de dois híbridos de milho superprecoce: 32R21 da Pioneer e AG9020 da Agroceres na safra 2003/2004 sob irrigação. A coleta das amostras dos híbridos de milho foram realizadas a cada mês, considerando-se assim 5 (cinco) coletas para avaliar altura da planta, índice de área foliar, massa seca do colmo e pendão, das folhas, da palha, do sabugo. Na colheita foi determinada massa de grãos, número de grãos, massa de 1000 grãos e o índice de colheita para cada um dos híbridos de milho. A produtividade calculada através dos dados coletados a campo foi comparada com o mapa de produtividade obtido pela colhedora, através do Software CR CAMPEIRO 5. Os resultados mostraram que há variabilidade espacial para a maior parte dos componentes estudados. Não foi observado variabilidade significativa de acordo com a aplicação da análise de regressão. O híbrido AG9020 apresentou maior diferença de produtividade em comparação ao híbrido P32R21 com relação à produtividade da colhedora. A importância de conhecer como variam, no campo, esses componentes que determinam a produtividade de grãos de milho é justificada pelo fato de que podem dar uma indicação da variabilidade de outros parâmetros, como os de solo.

The effects of soil nutrient status on the performance of four South African wheat genotypes were investigated in a long-term fertilization experiment. The objective was to quantify the effects of soil fertility on yield, yield components, grain nitrogen content, grain protein yield, grain protein content, flour yield and bread-making quality. The relative contribution of main stems and tillers, as well as the contribution of first, second and third kernels in the spikelets to grain yield and grain protein content were determined. The interactive effects between photoperiod, temperature and vernalization on grain yield, yield components and grain protein content were also quantified. Increasing soil fertility increased grain yield and most components of yield, grain nitrogen content, grain protein yield, aboveground biomass and harvest index, but depressed mean kernel mass. Significant interactions between cultivar and soil fertility were observed for grain yield, grain number, kernel mass, protein yield, biomass and harvest index, indicating differences in cultivar ability to produce yield and quality. Within a cultivar, the main stem, first tiller and second tiller did not differ in mean grain protein content, indicating that late-maturing tillers do not affect the grain protein content of wheat. Grain protein content, flour yield, loaf volume, water absorption and mixograph peak mixing time varied with soil fertility. The interaction between cultivar and soil fertility was significant for the above mentioned parameters with the exception of mixograph peak mixing time, indicating wheat genotypes differences in bread-making quality potential. The potential ability of wheat cultivar Kariega to produce higher grain yield, protein yield and loaf volume in the K and P limiting soil fertility situations deserve further investigation. In a growth chamber study, the low temperature regimes and long photoperiod conditions resulted in the highest grain yield, number of grains, largest mean kernel size and highest grain protein content. / Dissertation (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2003. / Plant Production and Soil Science / unrestricted

Understanding the effects of water stress on wheat growth, yield and quality is essential for good irrigation management. In South Africa most of the wheat production areas are vulnerable to drought stress during crop development. That causes substantial reduction in grain yield, depending on the developmental stage at which water stress occurred. Supplemental irrigation is the main strategy for adaptation and stabilisation of yield under water stress. However, agriculture is the leading single water-use sector locally, consuming about 60% of total available water. Therefore, the need to improve water use efficiency (WUE) in crop production is clear, since South Africa is classified as a water-scarce country. Experiments were conducted under a rain shelter at Hatfield Experimental Farm, University of Pretoria, in the 2010 and 2011 seasons. The main objective of the study was to evaluate the effects of water stress at different stages on growth, yield, and quality of three wheat cultivars, namely Duzi, Steenbras and SST 843. Water stress was imposed by withholding water at either of three growing stages. The first treatment was stressed during tillering stages to flag leaf (stem elongation (SNN)), followed by water stress from flag leaf to the end of flowering (flowering stage (NSN)), and lastly water stress from grain filling to physiological maturing (grain-filling stage (NNS)), whereas optimal supply of water was maintained throughout the season by weekly irrigating to field capacity for the control treatment (NNN). Irrigation treatments and cultivars influenced growth, yield and quality, depending on the developmental stage at which irrigation was withheld. The control treatment (NNN) and the treatment stressed in the flowering stage (NSN) had highest and lowest grain yield respectively in both seasons. Water stressed treatment NSN reduced grain yield by 33% and 35% in the 2010 and 2011 seasons respectively, when compared with the control treatment (NNN). Reduction of grain yield due to stress in the flowering stage (NSN) was ascribed to reduction in the number of seeds per ear, number of ears per unit area, ear length, and flag-leaf photosynthesis rate (Pn). In the flowering stage (NSN) water stress reduced Pn by 59% which was due to increased leaf temperature because of lower transpiration (E) and stomatal conductance (gs). The water stress treatment NSN reduced transpiration by 72% and stomatal conductance by 84% in the flowering stage. Plant height was reduced by 23% because of water stress imposed in the flowering stage (NSN), which consequently decreased biomass yield by 29% in the 2011 season. Growth and yield parameters showed dramatic recovery when stress was terminated during the flag-leaf stage (SNN). The cultivar Steenbras had lower yield reduction under stress, whereas Duzi and SST 843 had higher yield potential under the well-watered conditions (NNN). In the 2011 season SST 843 had higher WUE of 14.2 kg ha-1 mm, which corresponded to higher grain yield of 7210 kg ha-1 and higher ET of 509 mm. Water-stress treatment SNN gave the highest WUE of 14.9 kg ha-1 mm, which corresponded to a total water use (ET) of 451 mm and grain yield of 6738 kg ha-1. Water stress treatments SNN and NNS reduced ET by 27% and 17%, respectively, which translated to 173 mm and 105 mm water saved by each treatment correspondingly. Grain protein content (GPC) was reduced most by the treatment exposed to stress in the stem elongation stage (SNN). However, the GPC was acceptable (>12%) in all treatments in both seasons. Hectolitre mass was reduced most by water stress imposed during grain filling (NNS). Water stress treatment NNS lowered the hectolitre mass by 3% and 4% in the 2010 and 2011 seasons respectively. Generally all quality parameters in the present study were acceptable for all irrigation treatment and cultivars. The hypothesis that water stress in the stem elongation and grain-filling stages will have little effect on yield and improve WUE was accepted. Therefore it can be recommended that supplemental irrigation should be applied from flag leaf to end of flowering (NSN) stages of wheat in order to minimise grain yield losses in the absence of rainfall. Further research should focus on extrapolation of these results to other production regions using crop models. / Dissertation (MInstAgrar)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / Plant Production and Soil Science / unrestricted

MSCAGR (Plant Production) / Department of Plant Production / Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L) is adapted to cool-seasons and its organs are of high nutritive value and serve as cheap sources of protein, especially in developing countries. Chickpea crop is mainly grown for human consumption, animal feed and for medicinal purposes. The introduction and promotion of chickpea to especially small-scale South African crop farmers has multiple objectives including the improvement of soil fertility. Small-scale farmer’s flounder to afford Nfertilizers, coupled with the challenges faced by programmes aimed at assisting them about soil fertility in their cropping fields that are still without enough N concentration to meet N demand. It is therefore important that other alternatives that can help improve the N status of soils be explored. The shoot δ13C is an indicator of WUE in C3 plants. However, shoot-WUE is affected by a variety of factors including genotypes, phosphorus fertilizer application and availability of native or introduced rhizobial bacteria. However, not much is known on whether application of phosphate fertilizer, seed inoculation with rhizobial strain affect the shoot C/N ratio of chickpea genotypes in South Africa. Therefore, field experiments were established at Thohoyandou and Syferkuil in Limpopo to assess the role of phosphorus fertilization and rhizobial inoculation on C assimilation, C/N ratio and shoot-WUE of chickpea genotypes. Field experiments were conducted during winter season in 2016 and 2017 (April to August). Treatments consisted of a factorial combination of two rates of phosphorus fertilizer (0 and 90 kg P ha-1 ), four desi chickpea genotypes (ACC#1, ACC#2, ACC#3 and ACC#5) and two rhizobial inoculation levels (bradyrhizobium strain and without rhizobial strain. In Thohoyandou, ACC#1 showed greater grain yield in 2016 and 2017. Which was associated with more branches and greater plant height. Furthermore, the interaction between genotypes, phosphorus fertilizer and rhizobial inoculation had significant effect on grain yield in 2016. ACC#1, 3 and 5 of chickpea genotypes fixed the most N compared to that of ACC#2. In addition, ACC#5 had the highest soil N-uptake in both seasons followed by ACC#3, while ACC#1 had the least value of soil N-uptake in both seasons. Phosphorus fertilizer application increased the fixation of N by 36.8% (P≤0.01), and similarly in soil N-uptake by difference of 59.9% compared to control in 2016. Furthermore, rhizobial inoculation increased N-fixed in 2016 and soil N-uptake in both seasons. ACC#5 had the highest N fixed at phosphorus-fertilized with bradyrhizobuim across two locations in both seasons. ACC#5 depended more on soil N-uptake than fixing its own N as compared to ACC#1. N fixation differed across seasons; however, ACC#3 had greater N-fixed in both locations. Moreover, chickpea genotype that fixed more N had least δ15N. This finding indicates that N fixation is exhibited by the genotypes that depend less on δ15N, because N2 fixation is inhibited by high soil N concentration or δ15N. Furthermore, ACC#2 and ACC#3 had greater δ13C at Thohoyandou in 2017; chickpea genotypes had significant effect on δ13C at P≤0.05 at Thohoyandou, 2016. The results showed that ACC#1 with phosphorus fertilizer application and no bradyrhizobium strain showed greater δ13C. Also, δ13C increased with a decrease in N-fixed (r=.1000), this indicates that there was a functional relationship between plant WUE and N fixation in chickpea, probably because improved water use in legumes supports N fixation. / NRF

The role of individual soil microorganisms changes over the course of a plant's life - microorganisms that have no discernable role at one developmental stage may affect the plant later in its growth. Traditional analysis of the soil microbiome, which has focused principally on the relative abundances (RA) of individual organisms, may be incomplete, as underlying differences in population size cannot be addressed. We conducted a metagenomic analysis of soil microorganisms from various maize (Zea mays L.) fields at two depths, accompanied by crop yield components, to provide insight into influences of edaphic microbes on maize productivity under commercial maize production systems in Missouri. This study assesses the influence of fungi and bacteria, not only in terms of RA, but also in their estimated absolute abundances (EAA), derived by combining the results of Illumina HiSeq sequencing data and phospholipid fatty acid abundance data. Significant interactions were identified between maize yield components and soil microbes at critical developmental states. Most interactions between fungi and yield components were negative, with notable exceptions. Bacterial interactions were more complex, with most interactions during early ear development identified as positive, and most interactions during tasseling identified as negative. In addition to the effects that microbial populations have on yield, plant populations reciprocally changed the microbial community. Plant developmental state was the greatest predictor of bacteria, with the microbial communities present during the active growing season being most similar to each other, whereas the preplant microbiome and post-reproductive microbiome being most similar to each other. Fungal communities were primarily dependent on location.