New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research abstracts
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Performance of lucerne cultivars under irrigated conditions in the Southeastern
Anatolia Region of Turkey
Mehmet Basbag
Ismail Gul
Veysel Saruhan
Dicle University
Faculty of Agriculture
Field Crops Department
Diyarbakir, Turkey
Abstract Agronomic characteristics of 18 lucerne (Medicago
sativa L.) cultivars were investigated to identify suitable cultivars
that could be grown under irrigated conditions in the Southeastern Anatolia
Region of Turkey. The average green herbage yields of lucerne cultivars for
3 years ranged from 36 721 to 61 534 kg/ha, dry herbage yield from 9523 to
17 453 kg/ha, crude protein percentage from 16.45 to 19.01%, and crude protein
yield from 1731 to 3286 kg/ha. ‘Syn.1’ gave the highest yield followed by
‘P.5929’, ‘Peru’ and ‘Elçi’, however there were no significant differences
among the top cultivars. ‘Kayseri’ lucerne cultivar, which was used as control,
had the lowest green and dry herbage yield.
Keywords lucerne; Medicago sativa; cultivars;
green herbage yield; dry herbage yield; crude protein yield
A02031; Received 11 June 2002; accepted 9 February 2004; Online publication
date 27 May 2004
New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, 2004, Vol. 47: 225-232
0028-8233/04/4702-0225 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2004
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