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Acta Agron Sin ›› 2013, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (09): 1612-1618.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1006.2013.01612

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Effect of Tillage Practices on Growth and Development and Yield of Winter Wheat in Double Cropping Area in North China

KONG Fan-Lei1,YUAN Ji-Chao1,ZHANG Hai-Lin2,CHEN Fu2,*   

  1. 1 Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System in Southwest China, Ministry of Agriculture / College of Agronomy, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; 2 Key Laboratory of Farming System, Ministry of Agriculture / College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
  • Received:2013-01-28 Revised:2013-04-22 Online:2013-09-12 Published:2013-07-09

Abstract:

The objective of this study was to understand the effect of different tillage practices on growth durations of critical stages, population size, and final yield of winter wheat in the double-cropping area in North China. In a two-year field experiment from september 2009 to summer 2011, we compared the effects of no tillage with straw mulch (NTS), conventional tillage with straw (CTS), rotary tillage with straw (RTS), and conventional tillage without straw (CT), under the conditions of same sowing date and similar seedling densities within a year. The growing process, population size, grain filling, and final yield of winter wheat received no significant influence of the three tillage practices (RTS, CTS, and CT). The growing process of wheat was delayed significantly in NTS treatment, which resulted in late maturity. The lower yield in NTS than in other treatments was related with the significantly smaller number of tillers per plant, population size, amount of dry matter accumulation in NTS. Compared with CT, NTS showed a decreased fertile spike number by 14.4%–16.9% and a lower grain yield by 16.4%–18.3%. Although the growing process of NTS was delayed, and the yield was decreased because of the small population size, the grain filling period of NTS was longer and the grain weight was higher in NTS than in other treatments. Therefore, to ensure the population number of NTS by increasing seeding rate and selecting strong tillering varieties is the problem in urgent need to be solved in NTS technology research and application.

Key words: Tillage practice, Straw mulching, Number of tillers per plant, Grain filling, Yield

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