Evaluation of Some Faba Bean Genotypes Under Three Planting Dates in Middle Egypt

Abstract

Sids-19). Three sowing dates (October 15 th , November 1 st and November 15 th) were used. The results of the combined analysis of the two growing seasons 2016/2017 and 2017/2018 showed that, number of days to both flowering and maturity and number of branches were significantly affected by sowing date. The productivity traits were significantly affected by sowing date, specially, seed yield per faddan. The results revealed significant differences among the eight faba bean genotypes in their performance in both of number of days to flowering and maturity. The earliest faba bean genotypes were Giza-843, Sakha-3 and Giza-716 in both Sids and Mallawy. It was found that, late sowing showed a shorter period until to maturity. Genotypes produced higher seed yield/plant at the 2 nd sowing date (November 1 st). Genotypes produced heaviest 100-seeds in the 1 st sowing date, because, plants stayed longer to reach maturity, relative to those planted in both of Novamber1 st or November 15 th , since seeds given much time to grow. Sakha-3 in both Mallawy and Sids, attained the highest seed yield (ton fad.). The second sowing date (November 1 st) was most proper and any of Sakha-1 and Sakha-3 Sids-19 might be adopted to Middle Egypt.

Increasing sustainability by intercropping legume crops with sugar beet under imposed water stress

“…The growth habits of the sugar beet and chickpea cultivars studied were similar, and both had semi-erect growth habits with relatively close plant height values (50.0-60.0 cm) (Abd-Allah et al, 2021;Ahmed et al, 2015). The faba bean cultivar studied also has a semi-erect growth habit with taller plants of approximately 70-80 cm (Tarek et al, 2020). These differences in plant height could result in some shading reflected by lower sugar beet yield compared to the value of sugar beet yield obtained under the chickpea intercropping system (Table 3).…”