Plant Soil Environ., 2019, 65(2):63-70 | DOI: 10.17221/472/2018-PSE

The effect of agronomic measures on grain yield of winter wheat in drier conditionsOriginal Paper

Petr Vrtílek*, Vladimír Smutný, Tamara Dryšlová, Lubomír Neudert, Jan Křen
Department of Agrosystems and Bioclimatology, Faculty of AgriSciences, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of a year of cultivation and three agronomic measures (pre-crop, soil tillage, application of fungicides) on the yield of winter wheat grown in the crop rotation without the livestock production. The results from the years 2011-2017, except for the year 2012, from the Žabčice Field Experimental Station (49°01'20''N, 16°37'55''E) were evaluated. The soil texture is clay loam soil and the soil type is fluvisol. In the field trial, winter wheat was grown after two pre-crops (winter wheat, pea). Two soil tillage technologies, namely the conventional tillage - CT (ploughing - at a depth of 24 cm) and the minimum tillage - MT (shallow loosening - at a depth of 15 cm) were used. Two fungicide treatments against leaf and spikelet diseases were used, and they were compared to the non-treated variants. The obtained results showed that the grain yield of winter wheat was statistically influenced not only by a year of cultivation, but also by the pre-crop, the application of fungicides, and mostly by the interaction of these factors with the soil tillage. The importance of pea as a suitable pre-crop for winter wheat was confirmed as the grain yield was higher compared to winter wheat as a pre-crop by an average of 0.49 t/ha. It was also found that the MT is a more appropriate technology than the CT, on average by 0.12 t/ha over the six years. The importance of fungicide treatment was also confirmed, where the grain yield of winter wheat was higher by 0.26 t/ha compared to the non-treated variant. The presented results brought a new knowledge for winter wheat management practice in dry conditions.

Keywords: Triticum aestivum L.; cereal; weather; legume; farming system; drought

Published: February 28, 2019  Show citation

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Vrtílek P, Smutný V, Dryšlová T, Neudert L, Křen J. The effect of agronomic measures on grain yield of winter wheat in drier conditions. Plant Soil Environ. 2019;65(2):63-70. doi: 10.17221/472/2018-PSE.
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