Response of yield and some physiological traits of sweet basil affected by different nitrogen sources under intercropping with corn

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In order to study response of yield and some physiological traits of sweet basil under nitrogen fertilizers (biological, chemical and integrated) in additive intercropping a field experiment was carried out in the Experimental Farm Faculty of Agriculture, Lorestan University during 2014-2015 growing seasons. The treatments were arranged in a factorial split-plot-in time experiment based on Randomized Complete Blocks Design with three replications. Experimental treatments were 100% chemical fertilizer (N), bio-fertilizer (nitroxin), integration of bio-fertilizer + 50% chemical fertilizer and control, different intercropping systems consisted of sole cropping sweet basil and the additive intercropping of corn + 25% sweet basil, corn + 50% sweet basil, corn + 75% sweet basil and corn + 100% sweet basil and three harvest. The results belong to sweet basil showed that integration of bio-fertilizer + 50% chemical fertilizer had the highest fresh yield (7579.25 kg ha-1), dyr yield (1303.83 kg ha-1), plant height (50.62 cm), chlorophyll a (0.51 mg g-1 FW), chlorophyll b (0.36 mg g-1 FW) and total chlorophyll (0.87 mg g-1 FW). However, integration of bio-fertilizer + 50% chemical fertilizer in terms of mentioned traits except for plant height had no significant difference with 100% chemical fertilizer treatment. Among different intercropping systems, sole cropping pattern in terms of all traits evaluated in this study had the highest amounts. The highest LER (1.566) belonged to corn + 100% sweet basil with bio-fertilizer.

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Iranian Journal of Field Crop Science
Volume 49, Issue 2
August 2018
Pages 185-198

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  • Receive Date: 19 January 2017
  • Revise Date: 05 August 2017
  • Accept Date: 19 August 2017
  • Publish Date: 23 July 2018

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