Claim · model-written summary
Severe deficit irrigation at 50% of ETc reduced fruit weight and crop production every year.
- Taxon
- Citrus sinensis
Citrus sinensise1 - Treatment
- Severe water restrictions (DI=50% ETc)e4
- Outcome
- fruit weight and crop productione4
- Direction
- reducede4
- Comparator
- irrigation at the full rate of ETce2
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Verbatim
e1“orange trees [Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck]”
e2“Two different DI strategies supplying 70 and 50% of crop evapotranspiration (ETc) were compared with irrigation at the full rate of ETc”
e4“Severe water restrictions (DI=50% ETc) reduced fruit weight and crop production every year, with water-use efficiency values similar to those of the moderate DI (70% ETc)”
Title
Fiorella Stagno; Francesco Intrigliolo; Simona Consoli; et al. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering 2015. doi:10.1061/(asce)ir.1943-4774.0000903
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Moderate deficit irrigation at 70% of ETc saved approximately 80 mm of water per season.
- Intervention effect Moderate deficit irrigation at 70% of ETc had no significant impact on water status and agronomic performance.
- Intervention effect Severe deficit irrigation at 50% of ETc gave water-use efficiency similar to moderate deficit irrigation at 70% of ETc.
- Intervention effect Mild water reductions did not evidence crop mineral nutrition imbalances or yield decrease.
- Recommendation A moderate water restriction can be applied in commercial orange orchards.
- Intervention effect Moderate deficit irrigation increased total soluble solids and titratable acidity of the fruit.
- Intervention effect Moderate deficit irrigation delayed fruit maturity.