Tuesday, 21 June 2005 - 3:15 PM
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This presentation is part of 8: Crops--Corn, Peanut, Wheat, Oilseed, and Ornamental

Performance of Winter Canola in Rotation and as a Double Crop with Summer Crops.

Udai Bishnoi, Suresh Kumar, and Ernst Cebert. Dept. of Plant & Soil Science, "Alabama A&M Univ., POB 1208", Normal, AL 35762

Like winter wheat, winter canola (Brassica napus L.) also has potential as a double crop with summer (soybean, corn, sorghum, and cotton) crops. In southeastern region of US, winter wheat as a double crop has proved to be very beneficial for soil management and profits to the farmers. Therefore, performance of winter canola as a rotational and when double crop with corn, sorghum, soybean and cotton were evaluated for two years. In 2003, planting canola after soybean gave 7.1 and 12.2 % increase in seed yield and seed weight respectively and these gains were significant; the plant parameters (plant height, pods per plant, seeds per plant, and seed weight) were non significant but seeds per pod and numbers of plants per two m rows. The fatty acid profile and saturated fat in canola oil were not affected by rotation. In 2004, the canola plant parameters were significantly influenced by rotation of canola with the summer crops. Canola planted after soybean gave the highest yield (3129.02 kg ha-1), which was equal to corn and was significantly higher than canola planted after sorghum and cotton.

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