Abstract
The effect of undersowing on a spring oat crop with four long-term ley mixtures was investigated. Ryegrass, cocksfoot, timothy and general-purpose mixtures were used; broad red and white clovers were included in all mixtures and two levels of nitrogen applied, no nitrogen (n0) and Nitro-Chalk at 3 cwt./acre.1. Panicle number was reduced by all the undersown mixtures except when cocksfoot was the only grass sown (mixture B).2. The weight of individual grains was slightly reduced by undersowing with a ryegrass-dominant general-purpose mixture (D) in the absence of Nitro-Chalk, and there was also an indication of a lowering of the total number of grains per panicle when Nitro-Chalk was applied.3. All the herbage mixtures reduced the percentage of kernel at both nitrogen levels under the ryegrass-dominant mixture (A), but only at one level of nitrogen when cocksfoot (mixture B) or timothy (mixture C) were the only grasses sown.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Genetics,Agronomy and Crop Science,Animal Science and Zoology
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