Root growth, available soil water, and water-use efficiency of winter wheat under different irrigation regimes applied at different growth stages in North China

Quanqi Li, Baodi Dong, Yunzhou Qiao, Mengyu Liu and Jiwang Zhang

Agricultural Water Management, 2010, vol. 97, issue 10, 1676-1682

Abstract: Field experiments were conducted at the Luancheng Agro-Ecosystem Experimental Station of the Chinese Academy of Sciences during the winter wheat growing seasons in 2006-2007 and 2007-2008. Experiments involving winter wheat with 1, 2, and 3 irrigation applications at jointing, heading, or milking were conducted, and the total irrigation water supplied was maintained at 120Â mm. The results indicated that irrigation during the later part of the winter wheat growing season and increase in irrigation frequency decreased the available soil water; this result was mainly due to the changes in the vertical distribution of root length density. In 30-cm-deep soil profiles, 1 time irrigation at jointing resulted in the highest root length density. With regard to evapotranspiration (ET), there was no significant (LSD, PÂ

Keywords: Root; length; density; Available; soil; water; Water-use; efficiency; Winter; wheat; Deficit; irrigation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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