Relationship of crop water status with wheat grain yield in a Mediterranean type climate
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
2-2001
Conference Title
Australian Society of Agronomy 10th Annual Conference 2001: Science and Technology - Delivering Results for Agriculture?
Place of Publication
Tasmania
Keywords
Wheat, crop water status, grain yield, crop management
Disciplines
Agronomy and Crop Sciences
Abstract
Available water in the Mediterranean type of climate usually gets scarce during grain filling of wheat. A crop water based yield-predicting index towards anthesis would be useful. Most of the available plant water indices use measurements on leaves only and ignore other green plant parts. We measured the amount of water contained in the crop/area and related it to grain yield in combination with other parameters. Crop water/area was concluded to be the preferred term over biomass/area for accounting grain yield variance.
Recommended Citation
Sharma, D.
(2001), Relationship of crop water status with wheat grain yield in a Mediterranean type climate, Australian Society of Agronomy 10th Annual Conference 2001: Science and Technology - Delivering Results for Agriculture?, Tasmania, pp.1-5.
https://library.dpird.wa.gov.au/conf_papers/45
