Table 7 Effect of different treatments on wheat yield components and yield.

From: Effects of different mulch materials on the photosynthetic characteristics, yield, and soil water use efficiency of wheat in Loess tableland

Treatment

Spike number (× 104‧hm−2)

Grain number

Thousand grain weight (g)

Yield (kg hm−2)

WUE [kg (mm−1 hm−2)]

CK

610.78a

20.48bc

38.91b

3167.78c

16.40d

T1

570.59b

19.76c

40.32a

35 49.20b

19.81c

T2

593.48ab

22.09b

40.41a

3837.78ab

22.52b

T3

605.88a

24.44a

41.00a

4098.25a

25.84a

  1. Different lowercase letters in the same column represent significant differences between treatments (P < 0.05).