Journal of Environmental Research

The effect of soil cultivation practices in sunflower Helianthus annus cultivation

4^th Edition of International Conference on Environmental Science & Technology
March 29-31, 2018 Vienna, Austria

Molla A, Skoufogianni E, Mollas St and Chatzikirou E

University of Thessaly, Greece Elgo-Dimitra Theofrastou, Greece

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Environ Res

Abstract

The objective of this work was to investigate the effect of different soil cultivation practices in sunflower cultivation. For this purpose an experimental field was established in central Greece (in Larissa). The minimum slope percent of the field was 5% while treatments being applied were both conventional tillage and no-tillage with two tillage directions (contour and inclination). There were four treatments with three replications each. The treatments were conventional tillage - contour direction (CTCD), no tillage - contour direction (NT-CD), conventional tillage - inclination direction (CT-ID) and no tillage - inclination direction (NT-ID). Sunflower was sown on July 6th 2015 and was harvested on October 10th 2015. During the experiment generation, plant height, leaf surface and total biomass were measured. According to the results the best germination noticed in the CT-ID treatment. Plant height ranged from 64.9 cm to the CT-CD treatment to 85.2 cm to the CT-ID treatment. Also, the total biomass weight was higher in CT-CD treatment and lower in NT-ID treatment. Therefore, the soil cultivation practices play an important role in plant growth, in biomass and in yield production.

Biography

Molla A has completed her PhD from the University of Thessaly, School of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Agriculture Crop Production and Rural Environment Soil Science Lab and Postdoctoral studies from the Department of Soil Water Resources, National Agricultural Research Foundation, Greece. She has published nine papers in reputed journals and 11 papers in international conferences.

Email:katrinmol@yahoo.gr