Table 5 Effect of crop residue management practices and phosphorus levels on yield attributes and yield of wheat in the rice–wheat system (pooled data of 2 years).
Treatments | Effective tillers (No. m–2) | Spike length (cm) | Grains spike–1 (No.) | 1000-grain weight (g) | Straw yield (t ha–1) | Biological yield (t ha–1) |
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CRM practices | ||||||
T1 | 286.4c* | 10.2b | 43.6c | 39.6 | 7.02c | 12.23c |
T2 | 290.3c | 10.4b | 43.7c | 39.4 | 7.18c | 12.49c |
T3 | 309.9b | 11.2a | 49.2ab | 40.0 | 7.67b | 13.51b |
T4 | 307.3b | 11.2a | 48.5b | 40.3 | 7.56b | 13.45b |
T5 | 333.0a | 11.6a | 50.9a | 40.6 | 7.93a | 141.2a |
T6 | 295.3c | 10.4b | 45.2c | 39.4 | 7.27c | 12.7.9c |
LSD (p ≤ 0.05) | 11.3 | 0.5 | 2.6 | NS | 0.38 | 0.58 |
Phosphorus levels | ||||||
P0 | 287.4c | 10.5b | 44.8c | 39.7 | 7.11c | 12.38c |
P1 | 306.3b | 10.9a | 47.2b | 39.9 | 7.45b | 13.18b |
P2 | 317.5a | 11.1a | 48.6a | 40.0 | 7.75a | 13.72a |
LSD (p ≤ 0.05) | 6.3 | 0.2 | 1.1 | NS | 0.24 | 0.26 |
CRM x P | NS | NS | NS | NS | NS | NS |