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Light interception and utilization in determinate and indeterminate cultivars of Vicia faba under contrasting plant distributions and population densities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

H. Stützel  and
W. Aufhammer
H. Stützel
Affiliation:
Institut für Pflanzenbau und Grünland (340), Universität Hohenheim, Fruwirthstr. 23, D-7000 Stuttgart 70, Germany
W. Aufhammer
Affiliation:
Institut für Pflanzenbau und Grünland (340), Universität Hohenheim, Fruwirthstr. 23, D-7000 Stuttgart 70, Germany
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Summary

In a 2-year field experiment at Hohenheim in 1987–88, with an intact or partly deflowered indeterminate cultivar and a determinate cultivar, light interception and dry matter production were highest in crops grown in isometric stands (equal distances between plants), lowest in double rows and intermediate in single rows. Dry matter production was greater at high than at low population density and in the wetter and cooler weather of 1987. Population density had a greater effect on DM production than on light interception. The greater leaf canopies under high density and in 1987 (Stützel & Aufhammer 1991) reduced light extinction coefficients. In the determinate cultivar, light extinction coefficients were consistently higher and light use efficiencies were consistently lower than in the indeterminate cultivar. Deflowering the indeterminate genotype and different planting designs did not change light use efficiencies and light extinction coefficients. In general, differences in light use efficiencies were inversely related to differences in light extinction coefficients.

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Crops and Soils
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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 116 , Issue 3 , June 1991 , pp. 395 - 407
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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