Iranian Journal of Field Crop Science

Iranian Journal of Field Crop Science

The effect of irrigation intervals and harvesting time on grain yield and essential oil of anise (Pimpinella anisum L.)

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
Majid Pouryousef 1
Seyed Ali Razzaghifard 2
Khalil Jamshidi 3
1 Assistant Professor, Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, Research Institute of Physiology and Biotechnology, university of Zanjan
2 M.Sc. Student, Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, university of Zanjan
3 Associate Professor, Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding
10.22059/ijfcs.2014.53541
Abstract
In order to investigate the effect of irrigation intervals and harvesting time on yield and yield components of Anise (Pimpinella anisum L.) a field experiment was conducted at the Agricultural Research Station, University of Zanjan in 2010. For this purpose a spilt-plot experiment based on complete randomized block design with three replications was used. Three irrigation intervals (every 7, 12 and 17 days) allocated in main plots and three harvesting time, including harvest at soft dough (waxy), hard dough and full maturity stages allocated to sub plots. The results indicated that effect of  irrigation intervals on majority of measured traits including number of seed in umbellet, number of seed in umbrella, number of umbrella in plant, seed thousand weight, grain yield, grain essence content and essence yield was significant (P ≤ 0.05). With increasing irrigation interval from 7 to 17 days, majority of measured traits such as grain yield and essence yield decreased significantly but grain essence content significantly increased. So the highest grain yield (636.07 kg/ha) and essence yield (23.76 kg/ha) was obtained in 7 days irrigation interval and the lowest amount of mentioned traits was obtained from 17 days irrigation interval. Also harvesting time had significant effect (P ≤ 0.05) on some of traits including seed thousand weight, number of seed in umbrella, grain yield, grain essence content and essence yield. So with delay in harvesting time from hard dough to full maturity stage, number of seed in umbrella, grain yield, grain essence content and essence yield significantly decreased. The results also showed that interaction effect of irrigation intervals and harvesting time on grain yield was significant. The highest grain yield was obtained with 7 days irrigation interval and hard dough stage. 
 
Keywords
Anise
irrigation intervals
harvesting stage
grain yield and essence content
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Iranian Journal of Field Crop Science
Volume 45, Issue 3 - Serial Number 3
Autumn 2014
Pages 453-460

  • Receive Date 10 November 2012
  • Revise Date 19 May 2015
  • Accept Date 05 May 2013
  • Publish Date 23 September 2014