Effect of varying Irrigation Frequencies on Growth, Yield and Quality ...

<strong>Effect</strong> <strong>of</strong> irrigation frequencies on pea
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emergence test usually correlate well with field emergence (1, 9, 29), but
under suboptimal field conditions, the laboratory germination results <strong>of</strong>tenly
in overestimating the actual field emergence <strong>of</strong> seed lots (14, 29, 36). There
can be considerable differences between the laboratory germination <strong>of</strong> a
seed lot and its emergence in the field.
CONCLUSION
From the results <strong>of</strong> two years investigations, it is concluded that cultivar
Meteor when irrigated upto seed filling (I 3 ) performed better than Climax
under Faisalabad conditions during both the years.
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