Research Article
The Response of Durum Wheat to the Preceding Crop in a Mediterranean Environment
Table 3
Grain yield, vegetative growth, and kernel number per spike. Year × preceding crop interaction.
| Treatments | Preceding crop | Grain yield | Vegetative growth | Kernels per spike | Year | (g m−2) | (g m−2) | ( spike−1) |
| 2007-2008 | Alfalfa | 573.2a | 631.7a | 34.6a | Maize | 462.2b | 550.9abc | 28.9bc | Sunflower | 497.3b | 585.0ab | 29.6b | Wheat | 300.7c | 431.4cd | 23.4d |
| 2008-2009 | Alfalfa | 281.1c | 364.8d | 25.0cd | Maize | 326.2c | 472.3bcd | 24.5d | Sunflower | 294.3c | 397.3d | 24.8d | Wheat | 276.4c | 401.7cd | 26.9bcd |
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Within columns, numbers followed by the same letter are not significantly different at ≤ 0.05.
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