| Researcher(s) |
Bob French (DAFWA) |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2013 |
| Contributor | Liebe Group |
| Trial location(s) |
West Wubin, WA
|
To identify differences between commonly grown wheat varieties in their ability to emerge from very deep sowing (100mm) and relate to coleoptile lengths and to quantify the effects of deep sowing on grain yield.
| Lead research organisation | N/A |
|---|---|
| Host research organisation | N/A |
| Related program | N/A |
| Acknowledgments |
Pearse family, Liebe Group staff, Shari Dougall and Bruce Thorpe DAFWA Wongan Hills, Laurie Maiolo DAFWA Merredin |
| Other trial partners | Not specified |
| Crop type | Cereal (Grain): Wheat |
|---|---|
| Treatment type(s) |
|
| Trial type | Experimental |
| Trial design | Replicated |
| Sow date | 23 May 2013 |
|---|---|
| Harvest date | Unknown |
| Plot size | 18m x 1.54m |
| Plot replication | 4 |
| Fertiliser |
80 kg/ha Macropro Plus banded |
| Herbicide |
1.5 L/ha Roundup,2 L/ha SpraySeed,118 g/ha Sakura300 mL/ha Axial, 0.5% Adigor |
| Other trial notes |
Seeding Depths: Shallow 29mm, Normal 52mm, Deep 119mm |
| # | Variety |
Treatment 1
|
Grain yield (t/ha) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | █ Cobra | █ Deep | 2.72 |
| 2 | █ Cobra | █ Normal | 3.11 |
| 3 | █ Cobra | █ Shallow | 2.97 |
| 4 | █ Corack | █ Deep | 3.11 |
| 5 | █ Corack | █ Normal | 3.28 |
| 6 | █ Corack | █ Shallow | 3.43 |
| 7 | █ Emu Rock | █ Deep | 2.72 |
| 8 | █ Emu Rock | █ Normal | 2.91 |
| 9 | █ Emu Rock | █ Shallow | 2.94 |
| 10 | █ Estoc | █ Deep | 2.9 |
| 11 | █ Estoc | █ Normal | 2.72 |
| 12 | █ Estoc | █ Shallow | 2.82 |
| 13 | █ Mace | █ Deep | 2.78 |
| 14 | █ Mace | █ Normal | 3.09 |
| 15 | █ Mace | █ Shallow | 3.14 |
| 16 | █ Magenta | █ Deep | 3.18 |
| 17 | █ Magenta | █ Normal | 3.41 |
| 18 | █ Magenta | █ Shallow | 3.44 |
| 19 | █ Wyalkatchem | █ Deep | 3.17 |
| 20 | █ Wyalkatchem | █ Normal | 3.13 |
| 21 | █ Wyalkatchem | █ Shallow | 3.14 |
| Rainfall trial gsr (mm) | 228mm |
|---|
SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
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