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Effects of gravel–sand mulch, plastic mulch and ridge and furrow rainfall harvesting system combinations on water use efficiency, soil temperature and watermelon yield in a semi-ar...
Wang, Yajun; Xie, Zhongkui; Malhi, Sukhdev S.; Vera, … - In: Agricultural Water Management 101 (2011) 1, pp. 88-92
mulch and gravel–sand mulch combinations on soil temperature, evapotranspiration (ET), water use efficiency (WUE) and … watermelon yield. There were eight treatments: (1) flat gravel–sand mulched field, (2) RFRHS with a sand mulched furrow, entire … watermelon yield and WUE. The increase in watermelon yield and WUE was greatly influenced by the ratio of ridge and furrow when …
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Effect of ridge–furrow and plastic-mulching planting patterns on yield formation and water movement of potato in a semi-arid area
Qin, Shuhao; Zhang, Junlian; Dai, Hailin; Wang, Di; Li, … - In: Agricultural Water Management 131 (2014) C, pp. 87-94
) on potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) growth, tuber yield and quality, and water use efficiency (WUE) in an arid area of …
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Software for the automatic control of irrigation using weighing-drainage lysimeters
Vera-Repullo, J.A.; Ruiz-Peñalver, L.; … - In: Agricultural Water Management 151 (2015) C, pp. 4-12
Among all the existing methods to study crop water requirements, necessary for an efficient irrigation management, the most accurate is the one based on the use of weighing lysimeters. The best known lysimeters are those used for crops in bare soil, with similar dimensions to the plantation...
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Effects of regulated deficit irrigation and mulch on yield, water use and crop water productivity of onion in Samaru, Nigeria
Igbadun, Henry E.; Ramalan, A.A.; Oiganji, Ezekiel - In: Agricultural Water Management 109 (2012) C, pp. 162-169
This paper presents the findings of the effects of regulated deficit irrigation and mulch materials on yield, water use … application depths (irrigating at 25, 50, 75, and 100% weekly reference evapotranspiration (WRET)) and four levels of mulching (no … ranged from 6.3 to 20.6t/ha. The seasonal water applied varied from 225 to 480mm while the seasonal evapotranspiration (SET …
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Yield, quality and crop water stress index relationships for deficit-irrigated soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] in sub-humid climatic conditions
Candogan, Burak Nazmi; Sincik, Mehmet; Buyukcangaz, Hakan; … - In: Agricultural Water Management 118 (2013) C, pp. 113-121
yield, quality parameters, crop evapotranspiration (ETc) and water use efficiency (WUE) were investigated. Irrigations were … offered as a threshold value. Statistically significant relationships were determined between CWSI and seed yield, protein … yield, oil yield, ETc and WUE. The polynomial relationship between WUE and CWSI demonstrated that highest WUE could be …
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Soil water sensing for water balance, ET and WUE
Evett, Steven R.; Schwartz, Robert C.; Casanova, Joaquin J. - In: Agricultural Water Management 104 (2012) C, pp. 1-9
The soil water balance can be solved for evapotranspiration (ET) using soil water change in storage data from either …
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Evaluation of crop water stress index (CWSI) for red pepper with drip and furrow irrigation under varying irrigation regimes
Sezen, S. Metin; Yazar, Attila; Daşgan, Yıldız; … - In: Agricultural Water Management 143 (2014) C, pp. 59-70
An experiment was conducted to determine the effect of water stress on yield and various physiological parameters … irrigation methods and levels had a significant effect on the total yield of red pepper. Drip produced higher red pepper yields … than furrow. The highest yield was obtained from the DFI treatment followed by DDI-75, DDI-50 and DF-PRD-50 treatments …
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Assessment of crop growth and water productivity for five C3 species in semi-arid Inner Mongolia
Yuan, M.; Zhang, L.; Gou, F.; Su, Z.; Spiertz, J.H.J.; … - In: Agricultural Water Management 122 (2013) C, pp. 28-38
(Vicia faba) and potato (Solanum tuberosum) were conducted in 2009, 2010 and 2011. Yield, biomass, evaporation and … affected by these factors, including a significant interaction. WUE (units of yield/unit water) varied between years: from 1 … crop growth and yield in the agro-pastoral ecotone of Inner Mongolia. …
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Measurements of water dissipation and water use efficiency at the canopy level in a peach orchard
Ouyang, Z.-P.; Mei, X.-R.; Li, Y.-Z.; Guo, J.-X. - In: Agricultural Water Management 129 (2013) C, pp. 80-86
eddy covariance technique. Daily average values of actual evapotranspiration (ETa) and WUE were 2.3±2.1mm and 0.44gCO2kg−1H … evapotranspiration was very high, reaching a daily maximum value of 7.1mmd−1. Average daily WUE ranged up to 2.1gCO2kg−1H2O, peaking … after fruit harvest. The annual cumulative actual evapotranspiration reached 790.6mm, with a crop coefficient 1.08. In …
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Modeling the impacts of climate change on irrigated corn production in the Central Great Plains
Islam, Adlul; Ahuja, Lajpat R.; Garcia, Luis A.; Ma, Liwang - In: Agricultural Water Management 110 (2012) C, pp. 94-108
) may change evapotranspiration (ET) demand, and affect water availability and crop production. An assessment of the … climate change effects on corn yield and water use efficiency (WUE) under full and deficit irrigation. Predicted increases in …. Simulation results showed a decrease in corn yield, because the negative effects of increase in temperature dominated over the …
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