Iranian Journal of Field Crop Science

Iranian Journal of Field Crop Science

Effects of irrigation regimes on seed yield and yield components of chickpea cultivars at two autumn and spring planting seasons in Lorestan province

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
Ali Gholami Zali 1
Parviz Ehsanzadeh 2
Jamshid Razmjoo 3
1 Former Graduate Student, Faculty of Agriculture, Isfahan University of Technology
2 Associate Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Isfahan University of Technology
3 Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Isfahan University of Technology
10.22059/ijfcs.2015.54052
Abstract
This study was aimed to investigate the effects of planting season and irrigation regime on six chickpea genotypes in Lorestan province, west of Iran in a randomized complete block split-plot field experiment. The six chickpea varieties (i.e. Arman, Azad, Hashem, ILC-482, Greet and Nourabad) were sown in autumn and spring and were subjected to four irrigation levels (i.e. irrigation after 75, 100 and 150 mm evaporation from a Class-A Pan and non-irrigated) in two separate experiments. Autumn-sown chickpea out-performed the spring-sown chickpea by 55, 7.0, 8.5, 49.0, 44.0 and 5.7% in terms of number of fertile pods/plant, plant height, 100-seed weight, seed yield/plant, dry matter yield, grain yield and harvest index, respectively. Irrigation after 75 (2316 kg/ha), 100 (2121 kg/ha) and 150 mm evaporation (2010 kg/ha) led to 78, 63 and 54% increases in grain yield, respectively. "Greet" (2089 kg/ha) and "Hashem" (1775 kg/ha) produced the highest and lowest seed yields, respectively. It could be concluded that planting Cv."Greet" under the 75 mm level of irrigation at autumn may lead to the greatest grain yield production. Nevertheless, planting the latter genotype at autumn with irrigation after 150 mm evaporation may lead to substantial increase in grain yield, with minimum usage of water
Keywords
Drought stress
Chickpea
planting season
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Iranian Journal of Field Crop Science
Volume 46, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
Spring 2015
Pages 123-135

  • Receive Date 09 September 2014
  • Revise Date 18 February 2015
  • Accept Date 14 March 2015
  • Publish Date 21 March 2015