Abstract:Chickpea is an important food legume crop of Turkey and is largely grown for human consumption on low moisture or salt-affected soils. The objective of the study was to find the effects of NaCl stress at electrical conductivities of 4.5, 8.6, 12.7 and 16.3 dS/m and seed sizes (7, 8 and 9 mm) on germination and early seedling growth of three popular chickpea cultivars (AKN-97, Gokce and Uzunlu-99). Mean frequency of germination, germination time, germination index, root length, shoot length and seedling fresh weight showed seed size-dependent responses of cultivars to salt stress. In general, small seeds germinated and grew more rapidly compared to medium and large seeds of the same cultivars against all levels of salt stress, with the best results in cultivar Uzunlu-99. No effect of NaCl treatments was observed on frequency of germination; however, a drastic decrease in early seedling growth was recorded at increased NaCl concentrations. Regression analysis results showed a significantly positive relationship (P<0.01) between seed size and mean germination time, whereas a significantly negative relationship was recorded between seed size and germination index, root length, shoot length. Moreover, linear regression values apparently confirmed that increased seed size in each cultivar affected decreased germination index, root and shoot lengths with enhanced mean germination time. Thus, it was concluded that the use of small seeds could considerably reduce the production costs of chickpea in salt-affected soils.

The study was carried out to determine the effects of organic (rose pulp, barn fertilizer and bacterial inoculation) and chemical fertilizer applications on yield and yield components of chickpea varieties (Aydın 92, Azkan and Gökçe) in Dinar district of Afyonkarahisar province in 2011. The experimental design was split plot with three replications. In this research, plant height, first pod height, number of branches, pod and grains per plant, seed yield in plant, biological yield, grain yield, harvest index, 100 seed weight and protein ratio were investigated. The results showed that plant height was changed between 38.87-44.23 cm, first pod height between 17.37-21.43 cm, number of branches between 2.70-3.53, pods number between 30.37-50.37 and number of seed per plant between 29.43-48.47, seed yield in plant between 10.50-18.30 g, biological yield between 20.87-42.50 g, 100 seed weight between 34.67-40.43 g, grain yield between 128.10-188.57 kg/da, harvest index between 32.10-53.08% and protein ratio between 22.67-25.67%. As a result, the effect of organic (rose pulp, barn fertilizer and bacterial inoculation) and chemical fertilizer applications on chickpea varieties has been important in terms of yield characteristics. It should be suggested chickpea variety Gökçe with firstly barn manure and followed by chemical fertilization and rose pulp applications.

The aim of study was to determine the phenological characteristics of seed materials collected from mungbean cultivation provinces in our country. This experiment was conducted at the Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agriculture, Isparta University of Applied Sciences (ISUBU). In study, 91 materials were collected in 2015 and seed reproduction and pre-observations were made this year. According to preliminary observation results, 50 mung bean genotypes selected together with 4 registered varieties were taken into field trials in 2017 and 2018. The experiments were conducted at an Augmented Design with five replications. As phenological properties of experiment were germination time, flowering time, podding time and vegetation time. As a result of the study, it was found that there are genotypes with earlier characteristics than registered varieties. 27 S 08 genotype was the earliest among genotypes. This genotype is thought to be promising in the future.

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This research was conducted in Isparta, Turkey ecological condition to investigate the effects of different zinc application doses on some quality parameters of bread (Gün-91, Altay-2000) and durum (Kızıltan-91, Kunduru-1149) wheat cultivars. The experiment was set up with three replications according to the randomized complete block design with a split-plot design. The cultivars took place in the main plots whereas the zinc application doses (0, 9, 18, 27 and 36 kg ha -1 Zn) were in the sub-plots. Phosphorus and nitrogen fertilizers providing 40 kg ha -1 of P 2 O 5 and 80 kg ha -1 of N were applied to the plots. According to the result of variance analysis, different zinc application in wheat cultivars had significant effect on the grain quality parameters. But zinc fertilization had no effect on test weight. The effect of Zn treatment found statistically important on sedimentation and wet gluten content of flour, Zn, P and crude protein contents of bran and flour. In all cultivars, Zn application increased sedimentation, wet gluten content, protein, Zn content and P content in bran. However, the Zn application decreased the amount of P in flour. Also, protein, Zn and P contents were higher in the bran than in the flour. In the research results, it was found that Zn application had a positive effect on quality parameters, but high Zn doses affected both grain yield and quality parameters negatively.