Soil-water Regimes of a Typic Haplaquoll under Conventional and No-tillage

Pea plants growing in "weighing lysimeters" were subjected to five soil-water regimes to determine their response to varying conditions of soil water imposed at different stages of development. Plants subjected to a minimal water stress developed luxuriantly and continued to grow up to the harvest period. Pea yield and plant height were not reduced, but fresh weight and dry matter were less if irrigation was applied when soil water fell to 60% rather than 88% of that available. A severe water stress after blossom reduced pea yield, irrespective of soil-water conditions prior to blossom. Plants which had been given ample soil water before blossom wilted visibly when a severe stress was imposed in the post-blossom period, yet wilting did not occur in plants subjected to severe water stress both before and after blossom. Severe water stress prior to blossom did not cause a decrease in pea yield if ample soil moisture was made available after blossom.

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Assessment of vegetation and soil water regimes in partial canopies with optical remotely sensed data

Remote Sensing of Environment ◽

10.1016/0034-4257(90)90015-e ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 32 (2-3) ◽

pp. 155-167 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

A.R. Huete ◽

A.W. Warrick

Keyword(s):

Soil Water ◽

Remotely Sensed ◽

Remotely Sensed Data ◽

Water Regimes

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Effects of textural layering on water regimes in sandy soils in a desert-oasis ecotone, Northwestern China

10.5194/egusphere-egu21-9324 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Chengpeng Sun ◽

Wenzhi Zhao ◽

Hu Liu ◽

Yongyong Zhang ◽

Hong Zhou

Keyword(s):

Water Content ◽

Soil Water ◽

Soil Water Content ◽

Water Infiltration ◽

Northwestern China ◽

Soil Profiles ◽

Burial Depth ◽

Layered Soils ◽

Water Regimes ◽

Desert Oasis

Textural layering of soil plays an important role in distributing and regulating resources for plants in many semiarid and arid landscapes. However, the spatial patterns of textural layering and the potential effects on soil hydrology and water regimes are poorly understood, especially in arid sandy soil environments like the desert-oasis ecotones in northwestern China. This work aims to determine the distribution of textural layered soils, analyze the effects of different soil-textural configurations on water regimes, and evaluate which factors affect soil water infiltration and retention characteristics in such a desert-oasis ecotone. We measured soil water content and mineral composition in 87 soil profiles distributed along 3 transects in the study area. Constant-head infiltration experiments were conducted at 9 of the soil profiles with different texture configurations. The results showed that textural layered soils were patchily but extensively distributed throughout the study area (with a combined surface area percentage of about 84%). Soil water content in the profiles ranged from 0.002 to 0.27 g/cm3 during the investigation period, and significantly and positively correlated with the thickness of a medium-textured (silt or silt loam) layer (P < 0.001). The occurrence of a medium-textured layer increased field capacity (FC) and wilting point (WP), and decreased available water-holding capacity in soil profiles. Burial depth of the medium-textured layer had no clear effects on water retention properties, but the layer thickness tended to. In textural layered soils, smaller water infiltration rate and cumulative infiltration, and shallower depths of wetting fronts were detected, compared with homogeneous sand profiles. The thickness and burial depth of medium-textured layers had obvious effects on infiltration, but the magnitude of the effects depended on soil texture configuration. The revealed patterns of soil textural layering and the potential effects on water regimes may provide new insight into the sustainable management of rainfed vegetation in the desert-oasis ecotones of arid northwestern China and other regions with similar environments around the world.

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Effects of Irrigation Regimes on Yield and Water Use by Sweetpotato

Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science ◽

10.21273/jashs.115.5.712 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 115 (5) ◽

pp. 712-714 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Doyle A. Smittle ◽

Melvin R. Hall ◽

James R. Stansell

Keyword(s):

Water Stress ◽

Soil Water ◽

Water Use ◽

Ipomoea Batatas ◽

Regression Equations ◽

Marketable Yield ◽

Water Regimes ◽

Soil Water Tension ◽

Water Tension ◽

Storage Root Development

Sweetpotatoes [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam cv. Georgia Jet] were grown on two soil types in drainage lysimeters under controlled soil water regimes during 1982 and 1983. Water regimes consisted of irrigating the sweetpotatoes throughout growth when soil water tension at 23 cm exceeded 25, 50, or 100 kPa or by allowing a 100-kPa water stress before root enlargement, during early root enlargement, or throughout root enlargement. Water use and marketable yields were greater when sweetpotatoes were grown on a Tifton loamy sand (fine loamy, siliceous, thermic, Plinthitic Paleudult) than when grown on a Bonifay sand (loamy, siliceous, thermic, Grossarenic, Plinthitic Paleudult). Water use, marketable yield, and yield of U.S. #1 grade roots generally decreased when soil water tensions exceeded 25 kPa before irrigation, although soil water stress of 100 kPa during storage root development did not significantly affect yield. Regression equations are provided to describe the relationships of water use to plant age and to compute daily evapotranspiration: pan evaporation ratios (crop factors) for sweetpotatoes irrigated at 25, 50, and 100 kPa of soil water tension.

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EFEITOS DE NÍVEIS DE COBERTURA DO SOLO SOBRE A PRODUTIVIDADE E CRESCIMENTO DO FEIJOEIRO IRRIGADO, EM SISTEMA DE PLANTIO DIRETO

Irriga ◽

10.15809/irriga.2007v12n2p177-184 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 177-184 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

João Baptista Chieppe Júnior ◽

Ana Lúcia Pereira ◽

Luis Fernando Stone ◽

José Aluísio Alves Moreira ◽

Antônio Evaldo Klar

Keyword(s):

Phaseolus Vulgaris ◽

Soil Water ◽

Dry Matter Accumulation ◽

No Tillage ◽

Common Beans ◽

Phaseolus Vulgaris L ◽

Brachiaria Decumbens ◽

Area Index ◽

Straw Mulch ◽

Tillage System

EFEITOS DE NÍVEIS DE COBERTURA DO SOLO SOBRE A PRODUTIVIDADE E CRESCIMENTO DO FEIJOEIRO IRRIGADO,EM SISTEMA DE PLANTIODIRETO João Baptista Chieppe Júnior1; Ana Lucia Pereira2; Luis Fernando Stone3; José Aluísio Alves Moreira3; Antônio Evaldo Klar4 1Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Rio Verde, GO, [email protected]ério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento , Epitaciolândia, AC3Embrapa Arroz e Feijão, Santo Antônio de Goiás, GO4Departamento de Engenharia Rural, Faculdade de Ciências Agronômicas, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, SP 1 RESUMO Este trabalho teve por objetivo estudar os efeitos da cobertura do solo sobre a produtividade e crescimento do feijoeiro irrigado (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) sob cinco tratamentos de cobertura morta com palhada de capim braquiária (Brachiaria decumbens): 0% (0 t.ha-1), 25% (2,25 t.ha-1), 50% (4,50 t.ha-1), 75% (6,75 t.ha-1) e 100% (9,0 t.ha-1), obedecendo delineamento experimental de blocos ao acaso com quatro repetições. O experimento foi conduzido na Embrapa Arroz e Feijão, no município de Santo Antonio de Goiás, GO, num Latossolo Vermelho escuro argiloso. A irrigação foi realizada por microaspersão e o manejo através de tensiômetro e a curva característica de água no solo, irrigando toda vez que o potencial mínimo de água do solo atingia -30 kPa. A análise dos resultados mostrou diminuição do número de irrigações e aumento do turno de rega nos tratamentos onde a cobertura atingiu mais de 50% da superfície do solo. A cobertura do solo não influenciou na produção de grãos e seus componentes, com exceção do número de grãos por vagem e propiciou maior eficiência do uso da água. O tratamento com 100% de cobertura apresentou os maiores índices de área foliar e o acúmulo da matéria seca não sofreu influência da cobertura. UNITERMOS: Phaseolus vulgaris L., sistema de plantio direto, Braquiária CHIEPPE JÚNIOR, J.B.; PEREIRA, A.L.; STONE, L.F.. MOREIRA, J.A.A.; KLAR, A. E. Effects of DIFFERENT mulch levels on Growth and yield OF COMMON beans under no tillage system. 2 ABSTRACT The objective of this research was to study the effects of five different treatments of grass (Brachiaria decumbens) straw mulch on common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.): 0% (0 t.ha-1), 25% (2,25 t.ha-1), 50% (4,5 t.ha-1), 75% (6,75 t.ha-1) and 100% (9,0 t/ha) designed by randomized blocks and four replications. Irrigation was applied when minimum soil water potential was about – 30kPa. Water management was based on tensiometers and soil water characteristic curve. A microsprinkler irrigation system was used. The experiment was set up at the Experimental Station of Embrapa Rice and Bean (Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária Arroz e Feijão) in Santo Antonio de Goiás,Brazil, in a Dark – Red Latosol soil. Results showed that the bean yield and his components were not affected by treatments, except for grain number/pod. Mulching increased water use efficiency and, consequently, decreased the number of irrigations when mulching reached more than 50% straw mulch. The treatment with 100% of mulching presented the largest leaf area index and dry matter accumulation was not affected by mulching.KEYWORDS: Phaseolus vulgaris, no tillage system, Braquiária decumbens L

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