Salinity and Nitrogen Rate Effects on the Growth and Yield of Chile Pepper Plants
Magdalena Villa-Castorenaa,
April L. Ulery*,b,
Ernesto A. Catalán-Valenciaa and
Marta D. Remmengac
a CENID-RASPA-INIFAP Apartado Postal No. 41, Cd. Lerdo, Dgo., Mexico 35150
b Dep. of Agronomy and Horticulture, New Mexico State University, MSC 3Q, P.O. Box 30003, Las Cruces, NM 88001
c New Mexico State University Statistics Center, MSC 3CQ, P.O. Box 30003, Las Cruces, NM 88001

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Fig. 1. Soil salinity measured as electrical conductivity of saturated soil paste (ECe) in response to targeted salinity treatments and three N application rates at (a) flowering onset, (b) first mature pod stage, and (c) leaf senescence stage in 1999 and 2000. Every point is the average of three replications and the bars are ± SE.
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Fig. 2. Chile green pod yield response to soil salinity as affected by N rate applied in 1999 and 2000. Every point is the mean from three replications and the bars are ± SE. The arrows indicate the target salinity levels for each experiment.
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Copyright © 2003 by the Soil Science Society of America.