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A field experiment was conducted at Punjab Agricultural University farm during summer 2007. The experiment was carried out with four dates of sowings, four genotypes under split plot design with three replications. Phenology and thermal requirement of mungbean genotypes were studied under varying dates of sowing. Early sown crop (10th July) consumed more number of GDD, HTU and PTU to attain physiological maturity as compared to crop sown on 20th July and 30th July, which were at par with each other. While crop grown during 10th of August acquired lowest heat units hence resulted in low yield. Heat use efficiency was also characterized for production of biomass and seed yield. Among various mungbean genotypes viz. SML 668, ML 818, PAU 911 and ML 1299, the genotype ML-1299 resulted in higher HUE for both dry matter and seed yield as compared to other genotypes under study. Significant regression relationships were also worked out to obtain relationships for occurrence of different phenophases and HTU and PTU to predict mungbean phenology, DMA and seed yield. These three agroclimatic prediction models can be used to estimate crop growth and yields of mungbean.
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Gill, K.K., Singh, G., Bains, G.S., Ritu (2011). Prediction of Mungbean Phenology of Various Genotypes Under Varying Dates of Sowing Using Different Thermal Indices. In: Attri, S., Rathore, L., Sivakumar, M., Dash, S. (eds) Challenges and Opportunities in Agrometeorology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19360-6_36
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