Determining the Relationship between Population Density of White Tip Nematode and Rice Yield | ||
| Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology | ||
| Article 18, Volume 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 195-203 PDF (154.17 K) | ||
| Authors | ||
| S. Jamali1; E. Pourjam* 2; N. Safai2 | ||
| 1Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, University of Guilan, Rasht, Islamic Republic of Iran. | ||
| 2Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, P. O. Box: 14115-336, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The relationship between initial population density of rice white tip nematode (Aphelenchoides besseyi) and yield was examined on Oryzae sativa cv. Alikazemi. Experiments were conducted in greenhouse, micro-plot and field conditions. Seinhorst’s model was used to describe the relationship between nematode population density and crop yield. The parameters of the model, minimum yield (m), constant coefficient (z) and tolerance limit (T) were obtained from the experimental data. On this basis, the predicted yield was calculated within the initial population (Pi) range. To evaluate the difference between the observed yield (Yo) and the predicted yield (Yp), a discrepancy ratio (DR) was calculated. The results revealed that there was a significant correlation between mean yield reduction and nematode populations (P<0.01). At the highest initial population density, grain yield was reduced by 69%. In greenhouse experiments, the discrepancy ratio was larger than 0.03 and the predicted yield was overestimated compared to that predicted in microplot or field experiments. The model had the minimum mean of error when data were incorporated from the field experiments (ME= 0.0149). The indices from microplot and greenhouse experiments were 0.0823 and 0.2036, respectively. The relationship between nematode population density and relative grain yield fitted to the model was under field conditions. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Aphelenchoides besseyi; Field; Greenhouse trials; Microplot trials; Oryzae sativa; Seinhorst’s model | ||
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