Acta Agronomica Hungarica
Volume/Issue:
Volume 56: Issue 3
Effect of sowing date and N fertilisation on the yield and yield stability of maize ( Zea mays L.) hybrids in a long-term experiment
Authors:
Z. Berzsenyi Agricultural Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Martonvásár Hungary

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Q. Dang Agricultural Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Martonvásár Hungary

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Pages:
247–264
Online Publication Date:
25 Sep 2008
Publication Date:
01 Sep 2008
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/AAgr.56.2008.3.1
Keywords:
maize; sowing date; long-term experiment; interaction; stability analysis; AMMI model
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The effect of sowing date, N fertilisation and genotype on the grain yield and yield stability of maize was studied between 1991 and 2006 in a long-term N fertilisation experiment set up on chernozem soil in Martonvásár, Hungary. The N treatments (0, 60, 120, 180 and 240 kg ha −1 ) represented the main plot of the three-factor, split-split-plot experiment, with the sowing date (early, optimum, late, very late) in the sub-plots and hybrids from different maturity groups in the sub-sub-plots. The highest yields were obtained for the early and optimum sowing dates (8.712 and 8.706 t ha −1 ). Compared with the optimum sowing date, a delay of ten or twenty days led to yield losses of 5% and 12.5%, respectively. In the late and very late sowings and in years with unfavourable weather conditions, yield increments were only observed up to an N rate of 60 kg ha −1 , while in the early and optimum sowings and in favourable years yield increments were significant up to 120 kg ha −1 N. Yield stability was smallest in the early and very late sowings, in the control and for high N rates, and in the early and late maturity hybrids. It can be concluded that high yields and yield stability are not mutually exclusive.

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