Sowing Dates Effect on Production of High Yielding Maize Varieties
Sowing Dates Effect on Production of High Yielding Maize Varieties
Waqas Liaqat1, Mohammad Akmal1* and Jawad Ali
Total rainfall (mm) is shown in vertical bars while mean maximum and minimum temperature (OC) are shown with dotted and continuous lines, respectively forcrop growth period in Peshawar (PakistanMeteorological Department).
Emergence m-2for (a) sowing dates = SD, (b) varieties = Vand (c) interaction of SD x V in separate windows. Same letters in a window indicate non-significant effect.
LSD (P ≤ 0.05) forV = 0.70.
Days to tasseling for (a) sowing dates = SD, (b) varieties = Vand (c) interaction of SDx V in separate window. Same letters in a window indicate non-significant effects. LSD (P≤0.05) for SD = 1.78 and V = 1.15.
Days to physiological maturity for (a) sowing dates = SD, (b) varieties = V and (c) interaction ofSD x V in separate window. Same letters in a window indicate non-significant effect.LSD (P≤0.05) for SD = 4.05 and V = 2.05.
Plant height for (a) sowing dates = SD, (b) varieties = V and (c) interaction of SD x V in separate window. Same letters in a window indicate non-significant effect.LSD (P≤0.05) for SD = 16.06 and for V = 7.85.
Leaf area index for (a) sowing dates = SD, (b) varieties = V and (c) interaction of SD x V in separate window. Same letters in a window indicate non-significant effect.LSD (P≤0.05) for SD = 0.38.
Ear height for (a) sowing dates = SD, (b) varieties = V and (c) interaction of SD x V in separate window. Same letters in a window indicate non-significant effect.LSD (P≤0.05) for SD = 10.31, V =3.68 and SD x V = 8.23.
Ears per plant for (a) sowing dates = SD, (b) varieties = V and (c) interaction of SD x V in separate window. Same letters in a window indicate non-significant effect.LSD (P≤0.05) for SD = 0.09.
Ear length for (a) sowing dates = SD, (b) varieties = V and (c) interaction of SD x V in separate window. Same letters in a window indicate non-significant effect.LSD (P≤0.05) for SD = 0.85 and V = 0.83.
Grains per earfor (a) sowing dates = SD, (b) varieties = V and (c) interaction of SD x V in separate window. Same letters in a window indicate non-significant effect.LSD (P≤0.05) for SD = 25.47 and V = 25.42.
Rows per ear for (a) sowing dates = SD, (b) varieties = V and (c) interaction of SD x V in separate window. Same letters in a window indicate non-significant effect.LSD (P≤0.05) for SD = 0.29, V = 0.39 and SD x V = 0.87.
Thousand grains weight for (a) sowing dates = SD, (b) varieties = V and (c) interaction of SD x V in separate window. Same letters in a window indicate non-significant effect.LSD (P≤0.05) for SD = 13.25 and V = 15.41.
Plants at harvest (m-2) for (a) sowing dates = SD, (b) varieties = V and (c) interactionof SD x V in separate window. Same letters in a window indicate non-significant effect. LSD (P≤0.05) for V = 0.62.
Biomass for (a) sowing dates = SD, (b) varieties = V and (c) interaction of SD x V in separate window. Same letters in a window indicate non-significant effect.LSD (P≤0.05) for SD = 2527.08 and V = 1486.72
Grain yield for (a) sowing dates = SD, (b) varieties = V and (c) interaction of SD x V in separate window. Same letters in a window indicate non-significant effect.LSD (P≤0.05) for SD = 865.12 and V = 668.40.
Days to silkingfor (a) sowing dates = SD, (b) varieties = Vand (c) interaction of SD x V in separate windows. Same letters in a window indicate non-significant effect.LSD (P≤0.05) for SD = 2.02 and V = 1.31.
