Research Article
Grain Sorghum Response to Row Spacing and Plant Populations in the Texas Coastal Bend Region
Table 4
Grain sorghum response to row spacing and plant populations under dryland conditions.
| Row spacing (cm) | Plant population | Heads/plant |
Number of seed/head |
Weight of 1,000 seed (g) | Yield (kg/ha) | (1000s/ha) | 2000 | 2001 | 2000 | 2001 | 2000 | 2001 | 2000 | 2001 |
| 38 | 170–200 | 0.93 | 0.79 | 744 | 1234 | 25.3 | 14.0 | 4610 | 1665 | 210–240 | 0.91 | 0.81 | 702 | 969 | 24.8 | 13.3 | 4630 | 1726 |
| 76 | 170–200 | 0.95 | 0.80 | 846 | 1220 | 28.5 | 15.3 | 4666 | 2104 | 210–240 | 0.96 | 1.03 | 772 | 733 | 27.4 | 15.7 | 4576 | 2104 |
| LSD (0.05) | | NS | 0.18 | NS | NS | 2.1 | 2.4 | NS | 339 |
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