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Article

Path Analysis on the Meteorological Factors Impacting Yield of Tartary Buckwheat at Different Sowing Dates

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Center for Agricultural Genetic Resources Research, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan 030031, China
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Shanxi Seed Industry Development Center, Taiyuan 030006, China
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Agronomy 2025, 15(4), 950; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy15040950
Submission received: 18 March 2025 / Revised: 2 April 2025 / Accepted: 12 April 2025 / Published: 14 April 2025
(This article belongs to the Section Innovative Cropping Systems)

Abstract

Tartary buckwheat is an important characteristic multigrain crop, mainly planted in Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and Tibet, and other alpine and remote ethnic mountainous areas. In order to clarify the effect of sowing date on the yield and quality of Tartary buckwheat and its relationship with meteorological factors The variety Jinqiao No. 2 was used for a two-year trial at Dingxiang Test Base in Shanxi Province on four sowing dates (15 June, 26 June, 6 July and 17 July 2022 and 19 June, 30 June, 10 July and 21 July 2023) starting from the bud stage. Responses to sowing date were investigated by examining the growth period structure, yield, yield component, quality, and their relationship to climatic factors. The results showed that meteorological factors during the grain grain-filling stage were different when the sowing date was different. Compared with other sowing times, the treatment with the sowing of early and mid-July had less than 13.5~27.9 h of sunshine, less than 28.8~48.5 mm of rainfall, more than 10.5~19 days of ≤15 °C days, but the most serious low-temperature stress (≤15 °C days up to 27 days). The yield of sowing in July was 69.8~77.0% and 69.9~79.1% lower than that of sowing in June in 2022 and 2023 respectively, and the later sowing had a lower yield. Delayed sowing is beneficial to the accumulation of flavonoids and protein in Tartary buckwheat grains, and the average value in 2022 and 2023 is 11.55% and 14.64% higher than that in the first sowing, but the content of fat and starch is significantly reduced. The result of path analysis showed that the low temperature (≤15 °C days up to 27 days) and less solar radiation duration were the key points for attaining high yield and quality, due to the mean daily temperature and ≤15 °C days from flowering to maturity had negative effect on 1000-seed weight, seed setting rate, starch and crude lipid content of Tartary buckwheat, and the direct effect of sunshine duration on the content of protein and flavonoid in Tartary buckwheat was the greatest. The yield of Tartary buckwheat sown in June was higher than that of other treatments, because of avoiding low-temperature stress and long rainy and sunless weather during the grain filling stage, which enabled the blossoming and grain filling normally and finally attained higher yield.
Keywords: yield; sowing date; meteorological factor; path analysis yield; sowing date; meteorological factor; path analysis

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Zhang, J.; Sun, J.; Chen, H.; Yan, Z.; Liu, S.; Liu, L.; Cao, X. Path Analysis on the Meteorological Factors Impacting Yield of Tartary Buckwheat at Different Sowing Dates. Agronomy 2025, 15, 950. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy15040950

AMA Style

Zhang J, Sun J, Chen H, Yan Z, Liu S, Liu L, Cao X. Path Analysis on the Meteorological Factors Impacting Yield of Tartary Buckwheat at Different Sowing Dates. Agronomy. 2025; 15(4):950. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy15040950

Chicago/Turabian Style

Zhang, Jin, Jing Sun, Hong Chen, Zhiming Yan, Sichen Liu, Longlong Liu, and Xiaoning Cao. 2025. "Path Analysis on the Meteorological Factors Impacting Yield of Tartary Buckwheat at Different Sowing Dates" Agronomy 15, no. 4: 950. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy15040950

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Zhang, J., Sun, J., Chen, H., Yan, Z., Liu, S., Liu, L., & Cao, X. (2025). Path Analysis on the Meteorological Factors Impacting Yield of Tartary Buckwheat at Different Sowing Dates. Agronomy, 15(4), 950. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy15040950

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