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Results from experiments on winter barley measuring the effects of amount and timing of nitrogen and some other factors on the yield and nitrogen content of the grain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

A. Penny ,
F. V. Widdowson  and
J. F. Jenkyn
A. Penny
Affiliation:
Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, Herts., AL5 2JQ
F. V. Widdowson
Affiliation:
Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, Herts., AL5 2JQ
J. F. Jenkyn
Affiliation:
Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, Herts., AL5 2JQ
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Summary

Seven experiments on winter barley, made during 1979–81, measured the effects of several amounts of nitrogen, applied at different times in spring, on grain yield and nitrogen content. All of these experiments also tested a growth regulator applied in spring, and five of them tested fungicide sprays. In 1980 the experiment at Rothamsted also tested sowing dates, and an eighth experiment, also at Rothamsted in 1980, tested sowing dates and mildew fungicides applied in autumn or spring. In all the experiments treatments were tested in factorial combination.

N applied in February was less effective than N applied in March and both were less effective, in terms of grain yield, than N applied in April. Divided dressings were best applied in February and April or March and April; effects on % N in grain followed the same pattern and so, therefore, did the efficiency of uptake of fertilizer N. The growth regulator consistently reduced the length of the straw and diminished lodging; it increased yields in five of the seven experiments in which it was tested.

Responses to fungicides were inconsistent from year to year. Sowing in September rather than in October 1979 increased yield in both of the experiments at Rothamsted in 1980, especially of the 6-row variety Hoppel.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 106 , Issue 3 , June 1986 , pp. 537 - 549
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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