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Yield Adjustment by Canola Grown at Different Plant Populations under Semiarid Conditions

S. V. Angadi*, H. W. Cutforth, B. G. McConkey and Y. Gan

Semiarid Prairie Agricultural Research Center, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Swift Current, SK S9H 3X2, Canada



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Fig. 1. Climatic conditions from April to August during 1999 to 2001 at Swift Current. Daily maximum and minimum temperature (°C) and rainfall (mm) are presented with solid line, dashed line, and solid bars, respectively. Open arrows on the horizontal axis indicates early spring seeding date, while solid arrow for 2001 indicates late spring seeding date.

 


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Fig. 2. Relationship between normalized seed yield (% of 80 plants m-2) of canola cv. Arrow and plant population in field trials during 1999 to 2001 early spring (ES) and 2001 late spring (LS) at Swift Current. The dotted line is the mean seed yield of 4 yr normalized to 80 plants m-2.

 


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Fig. 3. Effect of reducing uniformly distributed plant population on the percentage contribution of main, primary, and secondary branches to the seed yield of individual canola plant cv. Arrow in 2000 and 2001 (early spring) trials at Swift Current.

 


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Fig. 4. Effect of uniformly distributed plant population and environment on the number of pods produced on main shoot, primary branches, and secondary branches in canola cv. Arrow during 2000 (solid triangle) and 2001 early spring (open triangle) at Swift Current.

 


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Fig. 5. Mean number of seeds produced by each main shoot, primary branch, and secondary branch pod in canola cv. Arrow in 2000 and 2001 (early spring) at Swift Current.

 


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Fig. 6. Distribution of yield components on different nodes (top to bottom) for canola cv. Arrow at different uniform plant populations in 2000 at Swift Current. Whenever the differences among plant populations were significant (P ≤ 0.05) for a yield component at a particular node, LSD values are presented as horizontal bars. For the sake of clarity, data from 40 and 10 plants m-2 are not presented.

 


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Fig. 7. Distribution of yield components on different nodes (top to bottom) for canola cv. Arrow at different uniform plant populations in 2001 (early spring) at Swift Current. Whenever the differences among plant populations were significant (P ≤ 0.05) for a yield component at a particular node, LSD values are presented as horizontal bars. For the sake of clarity, data from 40 and 10 plants m-2 are not presented.

 





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