Abstract
The present investigation entitled “Effect of Different Plant Spacing and Pinching on Flowering & Yield quality of African Marigold (Tagetes erecta L.) was conducted at Main Experiment Station, Faculty of Agriculture Science & Technology, Integral University, Lucknow (U.P.) in winter season, during the year 2019-20. The experiment was laid out in Factorial Randomized Block Design with three replications comprising nine treatment combinations of three plant spacing (50x40cm, 50x50cm, 50x60cm) three pinching levels (no pinching, pinching at 20 DAT, pinching at 30 DAT). The result concluded that the important growth characters were significantly influenced by different plant spacing and pinching treatments tried under this investigation. Plant height was found to be significantly more under the spacing of 50x50 cm and pinching at 30 DAT. The pinching treatments had significant effect on flower diameter, pedicel length, days taken for 50% flowering and vase life of cut flowers. In India flowers are sold in the market as loose or after making garlands flowers are traditionally used are offering in churches and temples and also used in ceremonies, festivals, beautification and landscaping. Besides, pinching is also an important factor for plant growth and flower production in marigold. Pinching is an important cultural operation, which delays flowering and enhances the flower yield.
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Claim · model-written summary
Spacing and pinching significantly influenced growth characters.
- Taxon
- African marigold
Tagetes erectat0 - Treatment
- different plant spacing and pinching treatmentse0
- Outcome
- growth characterse0
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e0“important growth characters were significantly influenced by different plant spacing and pinching treatments”
t0“African marigold”
Claim · model-written summary
Spacing of 50x50 cm gave significantly greater plant height.
- Taxon
- African marigoldTagetes erectat0
- Treatment
- spacing of 50x50 cme0
- Outcome
- Plant heighte0
- Direction
- moree0
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e0“Plant height was found to be significantly more under the spacing of 50x50 cm and pinching at 30 DAT.”
t0“African marigold”
Claim · model-written summary
Pinching at 30 DAT gave significantly greater plant height.
- Taxon
- African marigoldTagetes erectat0
- Treatment
- pinching at 30 DATe0
- Outcome
- Plant heighte0
- Direction
- moree0
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e0“Plant height was found to be significantly more under the spacing of 50x50 cm and pinching at 30 DAT.”
t0“African marigold”
Claim · model-written summary
Pinching significantly affected flower diameter, pedicel length and days to half flowering.
- Taxon
- African marigoldTagetes erectat0
- Treatment
- pinching treatmentse0
- Outcome
- flower diameter, pedicel length, days taken for 50% floweringe0
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e0“The pinching treatments had significant effect on flower diameter, pedicel length, days taken for 50% flowering and vase life of cut flowers.”
t0“African marigold”
Claim · model-written summary
Pinching significantly affected cut flower vase life.
- Taxon
- African marigoldTagetes erectat0
- Treatment
- pinching treatmentse0
- Outcome
- vase life of cut flowerse0
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e0“The pinching treatments had significant effect on flower diameter, pedicel length, days taken for 50% flowering and vase life of cut flowers.”
t0“African marigold”
Claim · model-written summary
Pinching delayed flowering.
- Taxon
- African marigoldTagetes erectat0
- Treatment
- Pinchinge0
- Outcome
- floweringe0
- Direction
- delayse0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Pinching is an important cultural operation, which delays flowering and enhances the flower yield.”
t0“African marigold”
Claim · model-written summary
Pinching enhanced flower yield.
- Taxon
- African marigoldTagetes erectat0
- Treatment
- Pinchinge0
- Outcome
- flower yielde0
- Direction
- enhancese0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Pinching is an important cultural operation, which delays flowering and enhances the flower yield.”
t0“African marigold”
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