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Planting Density X Mineral Nutrient Interaction Effect on Biomass Production and Partitioning of Arabica Coffee Cultivars

Received: 31 August 2021     Accepted: 12 October 2021     Published: 28 October 2021
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Biomass partitioning is important process for energy distribution among their leaves, stem and roots. The study was designed to evaluate the effect of population densities and fertilizer rates on biomass production and partitioning of Arabica coffee cultivars under nursery conditions. It was conducted at Jimma Agricultural Research Center from (February 29 to October 29), 2018 season. The treatments were arranged by using completely randomized design and a factorial experiment with three replications. Treatments consisted of combinations of two Arabica coffee cultivars (74110 and 75227), four population densities (one, two, three and four plants per polythene tube) and three compound NPK (22:6:12 + Te) rates (control, 5g and 10g). The results showed that, interaction effect of coffee genotypes, population densities and fertilizer rates was highly significant (P ≤ 0.01) for SFW, TFW and TDW, whereas significant (P ≤ 0.05) for RFW, LFW, ShFW, RDW, SDW, LDW and ShDW. The result revealed that, the maximum values of fresh weight (RFW, SFW, LFW, ShFW and TFW) and dry weight (RDW, SDW, LDW, ShDW and TDW) were obtained from treatment combinations of 74110*PD2*5g of NPK and 75227*PD1*5g of NPK in cultivar-74110 and cultivar-75227, respectively. Similarly, maximum biomass partitioning was observed from leaf dry weight as compared stem and root dry weight which were treated with 5g of NPK for both cultivars. Biomass partitioning optimization is very important to minimize the stress imposed by the limiting resource and more attention should be given on a biotic and biotic factor which affects biomass partitioning under field conditions.

Published in International Journal of Science, Technology and Society (Volume 9, Issue 5)
DOI 10.11648/j.ijsts.20210905.14
Page(s) 228-233
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Keywords

Biomass Partitioning, Coffee Cultivars, Nutrients, Planting Densities

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