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The effects of multiple irrigation regimes on the relationships among tree water status, vegetative growth and productivity within a super-high-density (SHD) “Arbequina” olive grove (1950 tree/ha) were studied for three seasons (2008–2010). Five different irrigation levels calculated as percentage of crop irrigation requirement using FAO procedures (Allen et al. in Crop evapotranspiration. Guidelines for computing crop water requirements. Irrigation and drainage paper 56. FAO, Rome, 1998) were imposed during the growing season. Periodically during the growing season, daytime stem water potential (Ψ STEM), inflorescences per branch, fruits per inflorescence and shoot absolute growth rate were measured. Crop yield, fruit average fresh weight and oil polyphenol content were measured after harvest. The midday Ψ STEM ranged from ?7 to ?1.5 MPa and correlated well enough with yield efficiency, crop density and fruit fresh weight to demonstrate its utility as a precise method for determining water status in SHD olive orchards. The relationships between midday Ψ STEM and the horticultural parameters suggest maintaining Ψ STEM values between ?3.5 and ?2.5 MPa is optimal for moderate annual yields of good quality oil. Values below ?3.5 MPa reduced current season productivity, while values over ?2.5 MPa were less effective in increasing productivity, reduced oil quality and produced excessive crop set that strongly affected vegetative growth and fruit production the following season. On the basis of the result given here, irrigation scheduling in the new SHD orchards should be planned on a 2-year basis and corrected annually based on crop load. Collectively, these results suggest that deficit irrigation management is a viable strategy for SHD olive orchards.  相似文献   

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The increasing demand for irrigation water to secure food for growing populations with limited water supply suggests re-thinking the use of non-conventional water resources. The latter includes saline drainage water, brackish groundwater and treated waste water. The effects of using saline drainage water (electrical conductivity of 4.2–4.8 dS m−1) to irrigate field-grown tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill cv Floradade) using drip and furrow irrigation systems were evaluated, together with the distribution of soil moisture and salt. The saline water was either diluted to different salinity levels using fresh water (blended) or used cyclically with fresh water. The results of two seasons of study (2001 and 2002) showed that increasing salinity resulted in decreased leaf area index, plant dry weight, fruit total yield and individual fruit weight. In all cases, the growth parameters and yield as well as the water use efficiency were greater for drip irrigated tomato plants than furrow-irrigated plants. However, furrow irrigation produced higher individual fruit weight. The electrical conductivity of the soil solution (extracted 48 h after irrigation) showed greater fluctuations when cyclic water management was used compared to those plots irrigated with blended water. In both drip and furrow irrigation, measurements of soil moisture one day after irrigation, showed that soil moisture was higher at the top 20 cm layer and at the location of the irrigation water source; soil moisture was at a minimum in the root zone (20–40 cm layer), but showed a gradual increase at 40–60 and 60–90 cm and was stable at 90–120 cm depth. Soil water content decreased gradually as the distance from the irrigation water source increased. In addition, a few days after irrigation, the soil moisture content decreased, but the deficit was most pronounced in the surface layer. Soil salinity at the irrigation source was lower at a depth of 15 cm (surface layer) than that at 30 and 60 cm, and was minimal in deeper layers (i.e. 90 cm). Salinity increased as the distance from the irrigation source increased particularly in the surface layer. The results indicated that the salinity followed the water front. We concluded that the careful and efficient management of irrigation with saline water can leave the groundwater salinity levels unaffected and recommended the use of drip irrigation as the fruit yield per unit of water used was on average one-third higher than when using furrow irrigation.  相似文献   

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Partial rootzone drying (PRD) is a water-saving irrigation practice which involves watering only part of the rhizosphere at each irrigation with the complement left to dry to a pre-determined level. The effect of PRD, applied at different phenological stages, on yield, fruit growth, and quality of the processing tomato cv. ‘Petopride’ was studied in this experiment. The treatments were: daily full irrigation (FI) on both sides of the root system considered as the control, and PRD treatments applied at three phenological stages. These were: during the vegetative stage until the first truss was observed (PRDVS–FT), from the first truss to fruit set (PRDFT–FS), and from fruit set to harvest (PRDFS–H). In some occasions, leaf xylem water potential was lower in each PRD period than in FI. Number of fruits, total fresh and dry weight of fruit per plant, harvest index, and fruit growth were lower in PRDFT–FS and PRDFS–H plants than in FI and PRDVS–FT plants. However, irrigation water use efficiency, on a dry weight basis, was the same among the treatments. For PRDFT–FS and PRDFS–H treatments, mean fresh weight of fruit and fruit water content were reduced and dry matter concentration of cortex and total soluble solids concentration of fruit increased compared with FI and PRDVS–FT treatments. Incidence of blossom-end rot was the same among PRDVS–FT, PRDFS–FH, and FI fruit, but it was higher in PRDFT–FS fruit. Fruit skin colour was the same among treatments. Total dry weight of fruit per plant decreased by 23% for PRDFT–FS and by 20% for PRDFS–H relative to FI. Fruit quality improvement in PRDFS–H could compensate for the reduction in total dry weight of fruit where water is expensive for tomato production. But an economical analysis would be needed to substantiate this. PRD from the first truss to fruit set is not recommended because of the high incidence of blossom-end rot. An erratum to this article can be found at  相似文献   

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Summary Water stress was imposed upon soybean [Glyxine max (L.) Merr. cv. Williams] and maize [Zea mays (L.) cv. Pioneer 3377] plants grown under controlled-environment conditions during a growing period of several irrigation cycles. Transpiration rates of individual plants were measured with a calibrated heat-pulse method and correlated to the rate of water loss obtained from successive weighings of the pots containing irrigated or water-stressed plants. Transpiration rate was reduced in the stressed plants of both species, but the reduction was not linear with decreasing soil matric potential. Transpiration rates declined rapidly at high soil matric potential, and dropped more slowly as the soil dried. Although measured transpiration rate declined by nearly 30% following a reduction of soil matric potential to -0.1 MPa, differences in leaf water potential and CO2 assimilation rate were small and less than the sensitivity of the measurement techniques used. Total system resistance to water flow increased as the soil dried.  相似文献   

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Irrigation techniques that reduce water applications are increasingly applied in areas with scarce water resources. In this study, the effect of two regulated deficit irrigation (RDI) strategies on peach [Prunus persica (L.) Batsch cv. “Catherine”] performance was studied over three growing seasons. The experimental site was located in Murcia (SE Spain), a Mediterranean region. Two RDI strategies (restricting water applications at stage II of fruit development and postharvest) based on stem water potential (Ψs) thresholds (?1.5 and ?1.8 MPa during fruit growth and ?1.5 and ?2.0 MPa during postharvest) were compared to a fully irrigated control. Soil water content (θv), Ψs, gas exchange parameters, vegetative growth, crop load, yield and fruit quality were determined. RDI treatments showed significantly lower values of θv and Ψs than control trees when irrigation water was restricted, causing reductions in stomatal conductance and photosynthesis rates. Vegetative growth was reduced by RDI, as lower shoot lengths and pruning weights were observed under those treatments when compared to control. However, fruit size and yield were unaffected, and fruit quality was slightly improved by RDI. Water savings from 43 to 65 % were achieved depending on the year and the RDI strategy, and no negative carryover effect was detected during the study period. In conclusion, RDI strategies using Ψs thresholds for scheduling irrigation in mid–late maturing peach trees under Mediterranean conditions are viable options to save water without compromising yield and even improving fruit quality.  相似文献   

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In irrigated agriculture, the production of biomass and marketable yield depend largely on the quantity and salinity of the irrigation water. The sensitivity of field-grown muskmelon (Cucumis melo L. cv. Galia) to water deficit was compared, using non-saline (ECi= 1.2 dS m–1) and saline (ECi=6.3 dS m–1) water. Drip irrigation was applied at 2-day intervals at seven different water application rates for each water quality, including a late water-stress treatment. Neutron scattering measurements showed that the soil layers below the root zone remained dry throughout the experiment, indicating negligible deep percolation. Thus, the sum of the seasonal amount of applied water and the change in soil moisture approximated the cumulative evapotranspiration (ET). Gradual buildup of water and salt stresses resulted in small treatment effects on the size of the vegetative cover and large effects on leaf deterioration and fruit production. Crop responses to salinity may result from an osmotic component of the soil water potential or from other salt effects on the crop physiology. Relating plant data to cumulative ET allowed a distinction to be made between the effect on water availability and specific salinity effects. The relation between fruit fresh weight and ET was not sensitive to ECi. The slopes for fruit dry weights were also insensitive to ECi but the intercept was larger for saline treatments. At any given ET saline water increased fruit number, increased fruit dry matter content and decreased fruit netting, in comparison with non-saline water. The combination of salinity and soil-water deficit was detrimental to fruit quality. Saline soil-water deficit decreased the percentage of marketable (netted) fruit and caused an early end to the period of marketable fruit production. Non-saline soil-water deficit increased the percentage of marketable fruit and had no effect on the duration of the production period. Late non-saline water stress caused a pronounced increase in the percentage of marketable fruit.  相似文献   

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During four growing seasons, 10-year-old apricot trees (Prunus armeniaca L., cv. ‘Búlida’) were submitted to three different drip irrigation regimes: (1) a control treatment, irrigated at 100% of seasonal crop evapotranspiration (ETc), (2) a continuous deficit irrigation (DI) treatment, irrigated at 50% of the control treatment, and (3) a regulated deficit irrigation (RDI) treatment, irrigated at 100% of ETc during the critical periods, which correspond to stage III of fruit growth and 2 months after harvest (early postharvest), and at 25% of ETc during the rest of the non-critical periods in the first two growing seasons and at 40% of ETc in the third and fourth. Soil–plant–water relation parameters were sensitive to the water deficits applied, which caused reductions in leaf and soil water potentials. The longer and severer deficits of the RDI treatment decreased fruit yield in the first two seasons. The RDI treatment pointed to two threshold values that defined the level at which both plant growth and yield were negatively affected with respect to the control treatment: (1) a predawn leaf water potential of around −0.5 MPa during the critical periods, and (2) a 22% drop in irrigation water. The total yield obtained in the DI treatment was significantly reduced in all the years studied due to the lower number of fruits per tree. No changes in the physical characteristics of fruits were observed at harvest. RDI can be considered a useful strategy in semiarid areas with limited water resources.  相似文献   

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Summary The effects of frequent and shallow soil wetting by surface drip irrigation on root growth, morphology, and location, and their impact on plant sensitivity to irrigation management were studied in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.). Daily drip irrigation, which wetted the 0 to 40-cm soil depth, encouraged root development mainly around the drippers. Water extraction took place mostly from 0 to 20 cm below the drippers, where the roots were concentrated. Shallowness of root growth was not altered by the expansion and deepening of the wetted soil zone which resulted from an increase in amount of irrigation water. The shallow and restricted root system was characterized by a high fraction of thin roots (less than 1 mm dia.) which comprised almost 90% of the root dry matter. Root proximity to the drippers and the limited amount of water in the rooted soil led to a sensitive and quick response of the plants to small amounts of irrigation. A supply of 1.0 mm H2O given at midday to 70 day-old plants resulted in a leaf water potential (L w) increase from –1.64 to –1.32 MPa over a 20-min period. This amount of irrigation comprised 15% of the average daily quantity. A 24 h delay in irrigation to 80 dayold plants was enough to decrease L w from –1.41 to –2.42 MPa. This decrease was caused by a soil water deficit of less than 6 mm H2O. Extending the irrigation delay to 72 h affected yield and earliness, although the deficient amount of water was supplied over the several days after the treatment. A strong response to minor, but continuous, differences in the daily irrigation amount was detected. Differences in irrigation of less than 1 mm H2O per day applied during the whole growth season substantially affected L w, yield and earliness. It was concluded that the establishment of a shallow and restricted root system resulted in strong dependence of the plants on frequent and sufficient supply of water, and temporary minor changes in irrigation affected plant water status and productivity.  相似文献   

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不同土壤水势条件下枣树的生长发育研究   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  
通过设定4个不同的土壤水势区间,研究不同土壤水势条件对枣树生长发育的影响。结果表明,在-23～-526kPa的土壤水势范围内,较低的土壤水势条件有利于枣树日最大茎直径的增加,但会使叶面积指数减小。透光率增加;在果实膨大期,土壤水势为-526kPa（相对田间持水率的27％）时,枣果萎蔫,复水后恢复正常生长状态;土壤水势越...  相似文献   

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Summary The interaction of different K status of barley plants (Hordeum vulgare, L.) and water stress on yield and water relations was studied. The plants which were cultivated outdoor in pots and supplied with 0.8, 5.0, 8.5 or 12.0 g K per pot, as KCl, were subjected to increased soil water stress during the early grain filling stage.The water content of the flag leaf tissue was significantly increased from 3.1 to 4.1 g H2O/g D.M. (dry matter) by K application resulting in maintenance of similar leaf osmotic potentials (–1.5 MPa) at all K levels prior to onset of water stress (Table 2). At the lowest K level Ca contributed essentially to maintenance of the cell osmotic potential (Fig. 2).In fully watered plants grain yield at the lowest K level was reduced 20% (Fig. 5 a) due to a decrease in the number of tillers with ears per plant (Fig. 5 b) and to early commencement of maturity processes (Table 3).Water stress caused grain yield reductions between 15 and 50%. However, by increase of K application yield was maintained to the greatest degree in high K plants (Fig. 5 a) due to improved water status in these plants during the drying cycle (Fig. 4). The production of above ground dry matter (top D.M.) during the grain filling period and the grain yield were highly correlated with the leaf water content at the end of the drying cycles (Fig. 6). The greater yield in high K plants was associated with prolongation of the grain filling period by up to 7 days (Table 3) and with an increase in grain weight by up to 20% (Fig. 5 b) as compared with low K plants. Preanthesis reserves contributed up to 52% of grain yield at low K levels (Fig. 5 c) reducing differences in grain yield between the K levels.Abbreviations RWC predawn relative water content - predawn leaf osmotic potential - WUE water use efficiency - R preanthesis reserves - ear D.M. increase in ear D.M. during the grain filling period - top D.M. increase in top D.M. during the grain filling period - SD standard deviation - LSD least significant difference  相似文献   

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The effects of sustained and regulated deficit irrigation (SDI and RDI) on “Mollar de Elche” pomegranate tree performance were investigated in a field trial conducted over three consecutive seasons. In the RDI regimes, severe water restrictions were applied during one of three phases: flowering and fruit set, fruit growth, or the final phase of fruit growth and ripening. In another approach, SDI was applied by watering trees at 50 % of the estimated crop water needs (ETc) during the entire season. Results showed that even after three consecutive seasons of water restrictions, similar yield levels were obtained in SDI and Control trees watered at 100 % ETc. This was because a 22 % reduction in average fresh fruit weight recorded in the SDI treatment was compensated by an increase in 28 % in the quantity of fruit collected per tree. This was most likely due to a reduction in the fall of the reproductive organs. However, the SDI strategy led to a reduction in 28 % in the yield value when fruits are sold for fresh fruit markets. Water restrictions applied only during flowering and fruit set also resulted in an increase in the quantity of fruit collected per tree, with only a slight reduction in fruit weight and without affecting the yield value. On the other hand, severe water restrictions applied during the summer (i.e., mid-phase of fruit growth) led to 24 % water savings with only a 7 % reduction in fruit weight. Fruit cracking was very low in all treatments and seasons (2–6 % over the total quantity fruit collected per tree). Only the RDI regime with restrictions during the summer increased cracking in one out of the three seasons. It is concluded that RDI can be used as a measure to cope with water scarcity and high water prices. Among all the RDI explored, the one with restrictions applied early in the season (during flowering and fruit set) was the most convenient strategy.  相似文献   

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Saline water has been included as an important substitutable resource for fresh water in agricultural irrigation in many fresh water scarce regions. In order to make good use of saline water for agricultural irrigation in North China, a semi-humid area, a 3-year field experiment was carried out to study the possibility of using saline water for supplement irrigation of cucumber. Saline water was applied via mulched drip irrigation. The average electrical conductivity of irrigation water (ECiw) was 1.1, 2.2, 2.9, 3.5 and 4.2 dS/m in 2003 and 2004, and 1.1, 2.2, 3.5, 4.2 and 4.9 dS/m in 2005. Throughout cucumber-growing season, the soil matric potential at 0.2 m depth immediately under drip emitter was kept higher than −20 kPa and saline water was applied after cucumber seedling stage. The experimental results revealed that cucumber fruit number per plant and yield decreased by 5.7% per unit increase in ECiw. The maximum yield loss was around 25% for ECiw of 4.9 dS/m, compared with 1.1 dS/m. Cucumber seasonal accumulative water use decreased linearly over the range of 1.5-6.9% per unit increase in ECiw. As to the average root zone ECe (electrical conductivity of saturated paste extract), cucumber yield and water use decreased by 10.8 and 10.3% for each unit of ECe increase in the root zone (within 40 cm away from emitter and 40 cm depths), respectively. After 3 years irrigation with saline water, there was no obvious tendency for ECe to increase in the soil profile of 0-90 cm depths. So in North China, or similar semi-humid area, when there is no enough fresh water for irrigation, saline water up to 4.9 dS/m can be used to irrigate field culture cucumbers at the expense of some yield loss.  相似文献   

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World water supplies are limited and water-saving irrigation practices, such as partial rootzone drying (PRD), should be explored. We studied the effects of PRD, applied through furrow and drip irrigation, on plant water relations, yield, and the fruit quality of processing tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. cv. ‘Petopride’). There were four treatments. The first two were: full irrigation by hand on both sides of the root system which mimicked furrow irrigation (FuI), and half of irrigation water in FuI given alternately only to one side of the root system with each irrigation (PRDFuI). The next two treatments were: full drip irrigation (DrI) to both sides of the root system, and half of irrigation water in DrI given alternately only to one side of the root system with each irrigation (PRDDrI). Leaf water potential was the same among the treatments except for the PRDFuI plants, which had the lowest midday values only in one sampling out of four. Photosynthetic rate was the same among the treatments except for the drip-irrigated plants having the lowest value in one sampling out of four. Number of fruit, mean fruit mass of fruit, total fresh and dry mass of fruit, and harvest index were the same among treatments, but PRD plants had increased irrigation use efficiency compared to fully irrigated plants. There was no incidence of blossom-end rot in any of the treatments. PRDDrI fruit had redder colour and higher total soluble solids concentration. Advancement in fruit maturity and enhancement of quality could be achieved without detrimental effect on fresh and dry mass of fruit by application of PRD. Independent of the irrigation method, PRD treatments improved irrigation use efficiency by ca. 70%. PRD has the potential for use in processing tomato especially in environments with limited water.  相似文献   

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The physiological behavior and yield response of maize under irrigation with saline water was studied in the laboratory and in the field. In the laboratory, the germination rate decreased only when the electrical conductivity (EC) of the substrate solution was above 17 dS/m. The osmotic potential of germinating maize seedlings decreased in proportion to the decrease in osmotic potential of the substrate.In the field, two maize cultivars (a field maize and a sweet maize) were irrigated alternately with saline (11 days from sowing), fresh (21 days from emergence), and saline (from day 33 to harvest) water and compared with maize irrigated with saline water continuously throughout the season. Four levels of irrigation water salinity were used (ECi = 1.2, 4.5, 7.0 and 10.5 dS/m).In the field no osmotic adjustment by the leaf sheaths of plants in response to salinity was observed. The osmotic potential of corn leaf sheaths (π) decreased with ontogeny in all treatments. The midday leaf water potential (ψL) in maize irrigated with 10.5 dS/m water was 0.75 MPa lower than in plants irrigated with 1.2 dS/m water.In the continuous treatment grain yield was reduced significantly with each increase in salt concentration, and the relationship between relative yield (y) and ECi could be expressed as y = 100?8.7 (ECi-0.84). With alternating irrigation and 7.0 dS/m treatment the grain yield was the same as in the low EC treatment (6.98 kg/m2).  相似文献   

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Performance of tomato when irrigated with sodic waters particularly under drip irrigation is not well known. A field experiment was conducted for 3 years to study the response of tomato crop to sodic water irrigation on a sandy loam soil. Irrigation waters having 0, 5 and 10 mmolc L−1 residual sodium carbonate (RSC) were applied through drip and furrow irrigation to two tomato cultivars, Edkawi (a salt tolerant cultivar) and Punjab Chhuhara (PC). High RSC of irrigation water significantly increased soil pH, ECe and exchangeable sodium percentage progressively; the increases were higher in furrow compared to drip irrigation. Effect of high RSC on increasing bulk density and decreasing infiltration rate of soil was also pronounced in furrow-irrigated plots. Higher soil moisture and lower salinity near the plant was maintained under drip irrigation than under furrow irrigation. Performance of the two cultivars was significantly different; pooled over 2002–03 and 2003–04 seasons, PC yielded 38.8 and 30.0 Mg ha−1 and Edkawi yielded 31.8 and 22.9 Mg ha−1 under drip and furrow irrigation, respectively. At RSC10, cultivar PC produced 38 and 46% higher fruit yield than cultivar Edkawi under drip and furrow irrigation, respectively. Reduction in fruit yield at higher RSC was due to lower fruit weight under drip irrigation and due to reduced fruit number as well as fruit weight under furrow irrigation. Decrease in fruit weight was more pronounced in cultivar Edkawi than in cultivar PC. Increase in RSC lowered quality of the fruits except the ascorbic acid content. High RSC under drip irrigation, in general, had lesser deteriorating effect on the fruit quality particularly for cultivar PC than under furrow irrigation. For obtaining high tomato yield and better-quality fruits using high RSC sodic waters, drip irrigation should be preferred over furrow irrigation. Better performance of local cultivar PC compared to Edkawi at medium and high RSC suggests that cultivars categorized as tolerant to salinity should be evaluated in the sodic environment particularly when irrigated with high RSC sodic waters.  相似文献   

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The effects of mid-summer regulated deficit irrigation (RDI) treatments were investigated on Clementina de Nules citrus trees over three seasons. Water restrictions applied from July, once the June physiological fruit drop had finished, until mid September were compared with a Control treatment irrigated during all the season to match full crop evapotranspiration (ETc). Two degrees of water restrictions were imposed based on previous results also obtained in Clementina de Nules trees ( [Ginestar and Castel, 1996] and [González-Altozano and Castel, 1999]). During the RDI period, deficit irrigation was applied based on given reductions over the ETc, but also taking into account threshold values of midday stem water potential (Ψs) of −1.3 to −1.5 MPa for RDI-1 and of −1.5 to −1.7 MPa for RDI-2. Results showed that water savings achieved in the RDI-2 treatment impaired yield by reducing fruit size. On the contrary, the RDI-1 strategy allowed for 20% water savings, with a reduction in tree growth but without any significant reduction in yield, fruit size nor in the economic return when irrigation was resumed to normal dose about three months before harvest. Water use efficiency (WUE) in the RDI trees was similar or even higher than in Control trees. RDI improved fruit quality increasing total soluble solids (TSS) and titratable acidity (TA). In conclusion, we suggest that the RDI-1 strategy here evaluated can be applied in commercial orchards not only in case of water scarcity, but also as a tool to control vegetative growth improving fruit composition and reducing costs associated with the crop management.  相似文献   

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The ability of cotton roots to grow downwards through a partially-wetted soil (Calcic Haploxeralf) profile toward a water source located beneath them was investigated. Plants were grown in 60-cm-high soil columms (diameter 10 cm), the bottom 15 cm of which was kept wet by frequent drip irrigation, while the upper 45 cm was wetted three times per week up to 20, 40, 60, 80 or 100% of pot capacity. Pot capacity was defined as the water content which gave uniform distribution within the pot and was at a soil matric potential ( m ) of –0.01 MPa. Plants were harvested 42 and 70 days after emergence (DAE). Root length density was reduced by decreased soil moisture content. At 42 DAE, density was reduced in the soil profile down to 36 cm. The density in the middle segment of the cylinder (24–36 cm) increased at the second harvest, from 0.1 to 0.35 cm · cm–3 at 40% and from 0.2 to 0.5 cm · cm–1 at 60% of pot capacity, respectively. A significant rise in root length density was found at all moisture contents above 20% in the two deepest soil segments. It was most marked at 40% where the rise was from 0.2 to 0.8 cm · cm–3, due to the development of secondary roots at the wetted bottom of the column. When only 20% of pot capacity was maintained in the top 45 cm of the profile, almost no roots reached the wetted soil volume, and root length density was very low. Hydrotropism, namely root growth through dry soil layers toward a wet soil layer was thus not apparent. Root dry weight per unit length decreased with increasing depth in the column at all moisture levels. However, the only significant decrease was, found between the top and the second soil segments and was due to thicker primary roots in the top segment. There was no clear relationship between length and dry weight of roots. Total plant dry weight and transpiration were reduced significantly only at 20% of pot capacity. Dry matter production by roots was less severely inhibited than that by shoots, under decreased moisture content in the soil profile. Leaf water potential decreased when the soil moisture content of the top 45 cm of the profile was reduced below 60% of pot capacity. It was concluded that even at soil moisture content equivalent to a m of 0.1 MPa, the rate of root growth was sufficient to reach a wetted soil layer at the bottom of the soil column, where the plant roots then proliferated. This implies that as long as the soil above the subsurface dripper is not very dry there is no real need for early surface irrigation.  相似文献   

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Summary Alfalfa was grown in five laboratory soil columns and irrigated at a fixed average amount per day. One column received tapwater at 6-day intervals; the others saline water (h o=–12 m) at intervals of 4, 6, 8, and 12 days. The alfalfa was harvested at 24-day intervals. The resulting widely varying distributions of soil water content, pressure potential and osmotic potential were measured in detail. From these data variously weighted mean soil water potentials were calculated and correlated with measured total leaf water potentials. This indicated that in the moist, saline soil columns the alfalfa plants tended to maximize the root uptake-weighted mean total soil water potential and, since the pressure potentials were generally high compared with the osmotic potentials, also the uptake-weighted mean osmotic soil water potential (minimize the uptake-weighted mean salinity). For the drier nonsaline soil column the leaf water potentials were much lower than expected from the soil water retention function. This was attributed to dominant resistance for water flow through the soil and across the soil-root interface.  相似文献   

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The impacts of three different water stress-timing patterns for three levels of seasonal applied water on production were evaluated in mature almond trees [Prunus dulcis (Mill.) Webb cv. Nonpareil] grown under high-evaporative demand conditions in the southern San Joaquin Valley of California. The stress timing patterns involved biasing water deficits to the pre-harvest or post-harvest periods in addition to uniform deficit irrigation for the entire season, referred to as A–C patterns. The three levels of water availability were 55, 70, and 85% of potential seasonal evapotranspiration (ETc) equivalent to 580, 720, and 860 mm of applied water per season, respectively. Treatments were imposed over four seasons. Predawn leaf water potential was used as the stress indicator and approached −4.0 MPa with the A pattern at the lowest applied water level and −3.5 MPa with the B pattern at the same irrigation level. For every level of applied water, kernel weight at harvest was significantly reduced in the A pattern relative to the B and C patterns. At harvest, the most severe reduction in kernel dry weight relative to the control (17%) occurred in 580A, while there were 11% reductions in 580B and 580C. At the 860 mm level, only the A pattern dry kernel weight was less than the control. Moreover, the A patterns for all irrigation levels had lower kernel percentages than for the B and C patterns, indicating the greater sensitivity of kernel growth relative to shell growth in the regulated deficit irrigation (RDI) scenarios that biased the stress toward pre-harvest. The B stress patterns had a strong negative impact on fruit load relative to the A patterns at the 580 and 720 mm levels of applied water. No differences in crop load relative to the control were observed among the A and C regimes for all three levels of applied water. Nut load tended to increase during the experiment with 580A and 720A while it decreased with time with the B patterns for the same irrigation levels. We believe that the lower fruit loads involve stress during flower bud differentiation, which occurs mid-August–September in this cultivar and location, quite late in the season relative to other fruit and nut crops. The most successful stress timing pattern in terms of yield (the integrator of fruit size and load) was C, which avoided the large swings in tree stress observed with A and B. The onset of hull splitting was delayed by the severe pre-harvest stress in 580A while being accelerated by the milder stress of 720A. Spider mite levels were unaffected by the RDI. Canopy size was reduced with the A patterns at all irrigation levels. This occurred without any concomitant reduction in fruit load, resulting in higher fruiting densities (305 and 283 nuts/m2 of orchard floor shaded area in 580A and 720A, respectively, vs. 214 nuts/m2 in the control). Coupling the higher fruiting densities and smaller canopy sizes with higher tree planting densities offers growers the possibility of increasing yields while consuming less water. Maintaining more compact canopies with RDI rather than pruning would also lessen the amount of wood requiring disposal, thereby moderating air quality degradation resulting from burning. It must be emphasized that the scenario we outline—increasing kernel yields while using less water due to stress-related higher fruiting densities—requires that the smaller canopies be maintained by RDI, not pruning.  相似文献   

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Summary In order to study the drought sensitivity of pea (Pisum sativum L. cv. Bodil) during different growth phases, a field experiment was conducted in 1985 and 1986 on coarse textured sandy soil with low water-holding capacity. Drought occurred naturally or was imposed by shelters during the vegetative, the flowering and the pod filling growth phase, respectively. Drought sensitivities were assessed as the ratio between relative yield decrease (1 – Ya/Ym) and relative evapotranspiration deficit (1 – ETa/ETm) of the individual growth phases, where Ya and ETa are the actual yield and evapotranspiration, respectively, of a drought stressed plot and Ym and ETm are the maximum yield and evapotranspiration of the fully irrigated treatment. Root growth was followed by measuring root density (L v ) in 10 cm soil layers to a depth of 50 cm. The leaf osmotic potential at full hydration ( s 100 ) was measured in the last fully developed leaf during the growing season.The available water capacity was estimated to be 42–50 mm on the basis of a plot of ETa/ETm versus soil water deficit measured by the neutron moderation method or direct measurement of the root depth. The root zone with L v >0.1 cm–2 only reached a depth of 35 cm at the end of the flowering phase and a depth of 45–50 cm at maturity. Root growth continued during the drought periods. The drought sensitivity of pea was high during the flowering phase, especially in 1986 when water stress developed rapidly, and considerably lower during the pod filling phase. The yield reduction caused by drought in the flowering phase was mainly the result of a lower number of pods per stalk. Severe drought did not occur during the vegetative phase. The leaf osmotic potential ( s 100 ) declined from c. -0.75 MPa to c. -1.30 MPa during the growing season. Osmotic adjustment was largest during drought in the early growth phases; in 1985 s 100 decreased 0.5 MPa under relatively slow drought development during the flowering phase while in 1986, when drought stress developed rapidly, s 100 only decreased 0.2 MPa. Osmotic adjustment may have caused the lower drought sensitivity in 1985 than in 1986 and mediated the continued root growth during drought.  相似文献   

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