Experiments were carried out to evaluate the effect of nine planting dates staggered over the period January 4-March 26 with about 10 day intervals on the yield of 5 leading wheat cultivars adapted to cultivation in the rainy season. In general, along with the delay in the planting date, the duration of the growth period increased and, therefore, grain yield rose from 1.46t/ha to 2.04t/ha, due to the lowering of temperature and shortening of day length in the period of growth. Especially, the effect of these conditions from the heading to the maturity stages of the crop contributed to the increase of grain yield associated with the complete filling of grain, as reflected thousand-kernel-weight and hectoliter weight. However the temperature and day length during cultivation period in the rainy season were too high and too long, respectively to obtain a high grain yield.
Grain yield was also low during the cultivation of wheat in the rainy season due to the low-yielding characteristics in Brazilian cultivars adapted to the rainy season. However these cultivars which were bred in Brazil are well adaptated to unfavorable envionments and are tolerant to aluminium toxicity.
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