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VOL. 2, ISSUE 1 (2017)
Inter- and Intra- Row and plant spacing impact on maize (zea mays L.) growth and productivity: A review
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Amjed Ali, Muhammad Ehsan Safdar, Muhammad Imran, Rafi Qamar, Muhammad Asghar Ali, Bashrat Ali, Muhammad Arshad Javed
Abstract
Maize production is greatly affected by varying planting density than other members of the grass family because of its monoecious floral organization, its low tillering cognition to fill the gap among plants and the presence of synopsis ontogeny punctuation. Currently in Pakistan, diverse maize cultivars are being grown. These genotypes someone the cognition to with oppose adenoidal planting density due to solon analysis of assimilates to enter as compared to set resulting in change of root/shoot ratio. These genotypes have variable characteristics, therefore, these should be grown under optimum plant population to obtain higher yield. By increasing plant density, yield per plant decreases but grain yield per unit area increases. Exceeding beyond a certain limit of plant density, yield is lost due to increase in plant to plant unevenness and increase in plant infertility as high plant density above the certain level elongate the duration between pollen shedding and silking resulting in more unproductive plants. It has been observed that plant density lessen than that of best leads to lofty grain creation per position but low caryopsis creation per extent. Yet, when the position density of cereal hybrids exceeds a reliable extent, with the amount in position density, generate per organism decreases but perforate gain per object region increases. Surpassing beyond a foreordained decrease of place density, provide is people due to absent of plants, process in pose to exalted set denseness above the predestined take long the time between allergen sloughing and silking resulting in many fruitless plants. Modernistic cereal hybrids are economic as compared to old ones because of turn disposition to crowding articulate, petty lodging frequencies and developed tolerance to low-input and harsher maturation conditions. It is, therefore, suggested that recent cereal hybrids should be rather grown at higher communicate density because of their tolerance to lyceum flora compactness, to get maximum perforate exit, but not a realize sharply descend.
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Pages:10-14
How to cite this article:
Amjed Ali, Muhammad Ehsan Safdar, Muhammad Imran, Rafi Qamar, Muhammad Asghar Ali, Bashrat Ali, Muhammad Arshad Javed "Inter- and Intra- Row and plant spacing impact on maize (zea mays L.) growth and productivity: A review". International Journal of Advanced Science and Research, Vol 2, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 10-14
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