Effect of Sowing Rates and Nitrogen Levels on the Growth and Yield of Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)
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Shafqat Hussain Memon, Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Crop Production, Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam, Pakistan.
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Akhtar Hussain Shar, Department of Bioinformatics, College of Life Science, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, China.
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Fahad Ali Kalhoro, Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Crop Production, Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam, Pakistan.
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Shahmir Ali Kalhoro, Deparmtnet of Soil Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Agriculture, Water and Marine Sciences, Uthal, Pakistan.
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Muneer Ahmed, Deparmtnet of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Agriculture, Water and Marine Sciences, Uthal, Pakistan.
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Abdul Ghaffar Shar, Department of Soil Science, College of Natural Resources & Environment, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, China.
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Azhar Husain Shar, Department Sociology, Faculty of ARTS, Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur, Pakistan.
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Ishfaqu Hikmat Shar, Department of Physics, Faculty of science, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan.
The wheat variety Anmol-91 was planted on 100, 125 and 150 kg ha-1 of seed rate and fertilized with 100, 150 and 200 kg N ha-1 using four replicated Randomized Complete Block Design. It was found that plant height, tillers plant, number of spikeletsspike-1, number of grains spike-1, seed weight plant-1, seed index and grain yield responded highly significant differences under both the seed rates and N levels, while their interaction and seed index displayed non-significant differences for all the except seed index. The data revealed that sowing rale of 150 and 150 kg ha-1 produced equally maximum grain yield (4333 and 4513 kg ha-1). The Results showed further demonstrated that application of 200 kg N ha-1 resulted in maximum grain yield (4590 kg ha-1) over rest of the N levels. It is concluded that for getting better grain yield in wheat 125 kg sowing rale of with 200 kg N ha-1 is recommended.
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