Kwara State University
Ade Afe
Designation: Senior Lecturer
Department: Crop Production
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| 1 | Leaf yield and nutritive value of bungu (Ceratotheca sesamoides Endl.) and black sesame (Sesamum radiatum Linn.) as influenced by age at harvest in the Southern Guinea Savanna ecological zone of Nigeria. |
Overall yield and the nutritive value of harvested leaves of bungu and black Sesame at weekly interval were determined. The objective was to provide useful information for market gardeners and consumers. Field experimental plots, 1 x 2 m in size, we are laid out using 2 x 4 factorial structure in Split -plot design with four replications and data collected at 7, 8, 9, and 10 weeks after planting (WAP). Detached plant leaves were subjected to proximate analysis in the laboratory. Means of two years’ results indicated that leaf and shoot yields per plant and leaf- to- shoot ratio in the crop species were similar, but leaf and shoot yields per unit area of land were higher in black sesame( 1.6 4 kg and 5.35 kg, respectively ) than in bungu ( 0.97 kg and 3.38 kg, respectively). Generally, as age increased from 7 to 9 weeks, number and total length of branches, as well as number of leaves per plant also increased, and thereafter the increases were no longer significant. Leaf area per plant and leaf area index in the two crops species were similar between 7 and 9 weeks of age and thereafter declined .Based on the average of two years’ results, the highest leaf and shoot yields per plants (5.48 g and 18.73 g, respectively) and per m2of land (1.49 kg and 5.16 kg, respectively )were obtained at 9 weeks of age. In terms of nutritive value of the leaves,the levels of crude protein and total ash is black sesame and bungu leaves, respectively, were significantly higher at 7 weeks after planting (prote: 33.68%, 34.65%, ash 10.75%, 13.00%) than at 8 weeks (protein: 28.55% , 28.50%, ash 8.88% ,10.88%), 9 weeks ( protein: 28.33%, 28.18%, ash : 8.88 %, 10.00 % ), and 10 weeks (protein: 28.83%, 26.08 %: ash: 9.00 %, 10.63 %). Considering both the quantity and nutritive value of leaf yield, 8-9 weeks after planting the crop appears to be optimum age to harvest the leaves of the crop species for culinary use. | Fasakin, K., Olofintoye, J.A. and Afe, A. I. | Vol. 14 No. 1: 75 - 82 | Journal article | 2018-04-05 | https://www.ajol.info/index.php/naj/article/view/55572 | |