An experiments were carried out based on randomized complete blocks design with three replications in 2014 and 2015, to investigate the influence of different intercropping patterns between sweet basil and corn plants on yield and yield components of sweet basil cultivars. The treatments were sweet basil cultivars sole cropping (40 plants m-2) and the additive intercropping of sweet basil cultivars + corn (20 + 8, 30 + 8 and 40 + 8 plants m-2). Results revealed that number of branches and grains per plant, grain and biological yield in both sweet basil mubarake and Italian large leaf cultivars were decreased with increasing this plants density in intercropping with corn. However, in both mubarake and Italian large leaf cultivars grain weight and harvest index were improved in intercropping with corn plants. Number of secondary branches, number of grain and yield of Mubarake cultivar were significantly more than that of Italian large leaf cultivar.

corn, grain weight, intercropping patterns, sweet basil, yield

An experiments were carried out based on randomized complete blocks design with three replications in 2014 and 2015, to investigate the influence of different intercropping patterns between sweet basil and corn plants on yield and yield components of sweet basil cultivars. The treatments were sweet basil cultivars sole cropping (40 plants m-2) and the additive intercropping of sweet basil cultivars + corn (20 + 8, 30 + 8 and 40 + 8 plants m-2). Results revealed that number of branches and grains per plant, grain and biological yield in both sweet basil mubarake and Italian large leaf cultivars were decreased with increasing this plants density in intercropping with corn. However, in both mubarake and Italian large leaf cultivars grain weight and harvest index were improved in intercropping with corn plants. Number of secondary branches, number of grain and yield of Mubarake cultivar were significantly more than that of Italian large leaf cultivar.

Hamed Mabudi Bilasvar*, Saeid Zehtab Salmasi* and Hossein Janmohammadi (2016). Changes in yield and yield components of two sweet basil cultivars in response to different intercropping patterns with corn , Biological Forum – An International Journal 8(