| Researcher(s) |
Geoff Dean (SFS) |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2004 |
| Contributor | Southern Farming Systems |
| Trial location(s) |
Cressy, TAS
|
To evaluate plant growth regulators currently used on canola in the UK.
There was a reduction in plant height with all three treatments and this was generally rate responsive. As in a previous trial conducted in 2003-04 there was little effect on grain yield.
| Lead research organisation | N/A |
|---|---|
| Host research organisation | N/A |
| Trial funding source | GRDC |
| Related program | N/A |
| Acknowledgments |
Simon Munford (DPIWE), Brett Davey (SFS) |
| Other trial partners | Not specified |
| Crop type | Oilseed: Canola |
|---|---|
| Treatment type(s) |
|
| Trial type | Experimental |
| Trial design | Randomised,Replicated,Blocked |
| Sow date | 7 June 2004 |
|---|---|
| Harvest date | 22 December 2004 |
| Plot size | Not specified |
| Plot replication | Not specified |
| Fertiliser |
basal - 9:14:17 + B at 300kg/ha, |
| Pesticide |
Lemat, Atrazine @ 2//ha (17 1h Aug) |
| # | Variety |
Treatment 1
|
Grain yield (t/ha) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | █ Atr Grace | █ Uniconazole (all 3 rates) | 3.22 |
| 2 | █ Atr Grace | █ Tebuconazole 375 g/ha ai | 3.26 |
| 3 | █ Atr Grace | █ Tebuconazole 250 g/ha ai | 3.38 |
| 4 | █ Atr Grace | █ Tebuconazole 125 g/ha ai | 3.32 |
| 5 | █ Atr Grace | █ None | 3.22 |
| 6 | █ Atr Grace | █ Metconazole 70 g/ha ai | 3.12 |
| 7 | █ Atr Grace | █ Metconazole 35 g/ha ai | 3.19 |
| 8 | █ Atr Grace | █ Metconazole 105 g/ha ai | 3.05 |
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