Abstract
Two field experiments were conducted to determine the effect of transplanting, plant arrangement, plant population and sowing date on partitioning of dry matter based on radiation utilisation analysis at Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand. Both the transplanting and arrangement or population. In contrast, the partitioning of root dry matter to sugar was similar in all the treatments in both the seasons.
The fraction of total dry matter harvested as sugar varied more in transplanting especially at the 4-leaf stage than the seed-sown beet. Calculation of an average recoverable sugar yield made using the average values of total photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) absorbed during growth and utilisation efficiency of total dry
matter to PAR absorbed for the crops measured and an average harvest index of 0.56, achieved in the experimental crop showed a sugar yield of 11.56t ha'1 to be possible. To achieve such a yield would require full Crop cover from the beginning of October (Southern Hemisphere) until the end of March in a typical Canterbury
growing season
Abid Hussain* , R.J. Field** . (1993) EFFECT OF SEEDLING TRANSPLANTING ON PARTITIONING OF DRY MATTER BASED ON RADIATION UTILISATION ANALYSIS IN SUGAR BEET , The Journal Soil & Environment , Volume 8, Issue (1-2).
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