Effects of plastic film combined with straw mulch on grain yield and water use efficiency of winter wheat in Loess Plateau

2015 ◽  
Vol 172 ◽  
pp. 53-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanlong Chen ◽  
Ting Liu ◽  
Xiaohong Tian ◽  
Xiaofeng Wang ◽  
Meng Li ◽  
...  
2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (12) ◽  
pp. 1197
Author(s):  
Zhang Mingming ◽  
Dong Baodi ◽  
Qiao Yunzhou ◽  
Yang Hong ◽  
Wang Yakai ◽  
...  

Water shortage is a limiting factor to crop production in North China. Mulching is a widely used approach to conserve soil water and improve crop yield. A 2-year field experiment was conducted at the Nanpi Eco-Agricultural Experimental Station of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2014–16, in which yields of winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) in a treatment with subsoil plastic film mulch were compared with non-mulch. The mulch treatment produced a 16.1% higher grain yield than the non-mulch treatment. The increase in grain yield was primarily due to a 10.1–10.9% increase in number of spikes per m2 and a 4.7–5.1% increase in number of grains per spike. Plants in the mulch treatment showed greater dry matter (DM) accumulation but similar harvest index. Yield improvement did not depend on increasing DM translocation, but was significantly related to DM accumulation at different growth stages. Increased DM accumulation before wintering, from jointing to heading and from anthesis to maturity, enhanced grain yield by promoting increased number of spikes and number of grains per spike. Soil evaporation was lower by 31.1% and transpiration increased by 28.0% in the mulch treatment, resulting in 8.9–9.4% higher water-use efficiency. Our results indicate that a subsoil plastic film mulch can effectively improve winter wheat yield and water-use efficiency under rain-fed conditions.


2015 ◽  
Vol 107 (6) ◽  
pp. 2059-2068 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanlong Chen ◽  
Ting Liu ◽  
Xiaohong Tian ◽  
Xiaofeng Wang ◽  
Huilin Chen ◽  
...  

2005 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yilong Huang ◽  
Liding Chen ◽  
Bojie Fu ◽  
Zhilin Huang ◽  
Jie Gong

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zsuzsanna Farkas ◽  
Emese Varga-László ◽  
Angéla Anda ◽  
Ottó Veisz ◽  
Balázs Varga

The effects of simulated waterlogging, drought stress and their combination were examined in a model experiment in Martonvásár, Hungary, in 2018. Four modern winter wheat varieties (‘Mv Toborzó’ (TOB), ‘Mv Mambó’ (MAM), ‘Mv Karizma’ (KAR), ‘Mv Pálma’ (PAL)) and one old Hungarian winter wheat cultivar (‘Bánkúti 1201’ (BKT)) were tested. Apart from the control treatment (C), the plants were exposed to two different abiotic stresses. To simulate waterlogging (WL), plants were flooded at four leaf stage, while in the WL + D treatment, they were stressed both by waterlogging and by simulated drought stress at the early stage of plant development and at the heading stage, respectively. The waterlogging treatment resulted in a significant decrease in plant biomass (BKT, TOB), number of spikes (TOB), grain yield (BKT, TOB), water use (BTK) and water-use efficiency (TOB, MAM, PAL) compared to the controls. The combined treatment (WL + D) led to a significant decrease in plant height (BTK, MAM, KAR), number of spikes (BTK, TOB, MAM, KAR), thousand kernel weight (TOB), harvest index (BTK), biomass, grain yield, water-use efficiency (in all varieties) and water use (BKT, TOB, MAM, KAR) of the plants. The best water-use efficiency was observed for MAM; therefore, this genotype could be recommended for cultivation at stress prone areas. The varieties MAM, KAR and PAL also showed good adaptability.


2018 ◽  
Vol 221 ◽  
pp. 219-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuexin Xu ◽  
Meng Zhang ◽  
Jinpeng Li ◽  
Zuqiang Liu ◽  
Zhigan Zhao ◽  
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