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Experiments on the Planting Distance in Varietal Trials with Millet, Setaria Italica (L) Beauv. 1
Author(s) -
Li H. W.,
Meng C. J.
Publication year - 1937
Publication title -
agronomy journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1435-0645
pISSN - 0002-1962
DOI - 10.2134/agronj1937.00021962002900070007x
Subject(s) - setaria , sowing , china , setaria viridis , agronomy , citation , mathematics , horticulture , library science , biology , computer science , geography , archaeology , weed
I the varietal trials for millet breeding work, the hill system has been used, namely, spacing the plants in the rows as commonly practiced by farmers. It was found from previous experiments 3 that, "the closer the plants were set, the higher was the yield, but less stooling per plant. By the use of analysis of variance, no significance was found in the yield of the different planting distances, i. e., 2, 4, 5, 8, and xo inches apart, but there was a significant difference for the number of stools per plant for the different planting distances. The regression of yield on stooling was not significant". Since there was only one variety under observation, there was probably no justification in making the above conclusion based on one year’s data only; therefore, the same experiment was repeated with some modification and the results are reported in this paper.