Effects of Mepiquate Chloride on Growth, Fruiting and Yielding Performances of Field-Grown Cotton

Authors

  • Yves Crozat Annual Crop Department, CIRAD (France), DORAS Certer, Kasetsart University, Bangkok 10900, Thailand
  • Poonpipope Kasemsap Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Kasetsart University, Bangkok 10900. Thailand

Keywords:

cotton (Gossypium hirsutum), Pix, plant monitoring

Abstract

The effects of Mepiquat chloride (Pix) on the performances of 58 cotton plots were studied during 1994 and 1995 at Chaibadan district, Lop Buri Province. Pix application at early blooming reduced significantly vegetative growth (node production, inter-node length) during the reproductive period and shortened the crop duration. Over all plots the average seed-cotton yield was not improved by Pix despite significant changes in boll distribution pattern and boll-size. Large variation in yield response existed between plots. The response depended on the rate of increase in internode length prior to Pix application together with fruit retention of the first fruiting branches.

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Published

1997-12-31

How to Cite

Crozat, Yves, and Poonpipope Kasemsap. 1997. “Effects of Mepiquate Chloride on Growth, Fruiting and Yielding Performances of Field-Grown Cotton”. Agriculture and Natural Resources 31 (5). Bangkok, Thailand:60-65. https://li01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/anres/article/view/241057.

Issue

Vol. 31 No. 5 (1997): January-December

Section

Research Article

License

online 2452-316X print 2468-1458/Copyright © 2022. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/),
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