Growth Studies in Winter Pruned Rainfed Mulberry, <I>Morus</I> Spp

Abstract

Rainfed Mulberry in South Bihar showed better growth rates of shoot length, foliage area, fresh and dry biomass as well as leaf weight during spring season under bottom or middle pruning conducted during preceding November month. All the growth rates had shown strong correlation with each other and their association with leaf yield was of the order of dry biomass growth rate> fresh biomass growth rate> leaf weight growth rate> foliage area growth rate> linear branch growth rate. Leaf yield was well predicted by dry weight growth rate with 87.6% precision.