Effect of Water Stress on the Growth and Yield of Cotton Crop ( Gossypium hirsutum L.)

  • Sahito A
  • Baloch Z
  • Mahar A
  • et al.
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Cotton is one of the most important fibre crops playing a key role in economic and social affairs of the world. Water is a critical factor which influences on growth and yield of the cotton crop. Scarcity of water has put tremendous pressure on scientists to introduce drought tolerant cotton varieties. This study was aimed to determine water stress effects on the growth and yield of cotton. The present study was carried out to examine the effect of number of irrigations on the growth and yield of cotton during 2014. The field trial was conducted at the Experimental Fields of Agronomy Section, Agriculture Research Institute, Tandojam, Pakistan. A three replicated Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) was employed to layout the experiment having plot size of 2.5 m × 5 m (12.5 m2). Four cotton varieties i.e. NIAB-78, Shahbaz-95, Sindh-1 and TH-224/87 were chosen for this study based on their frequent farmer usage.

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Sahito, A., Baloch, Z. A., Mahar, A., Otho, S. A., Kalhoro, S. A., Ali, A., … Ali, F. (2015). Effect of Water Stress on the Growth and Yield of Cotton Crop ( Gossypium hirsutum L.). American Journal of Plant Sciences, 06(07), 1027–1039. https://doi.org/10.4236/ajps.2015.67108

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