Claim · model-written summary
Subsurface drip irrigation increased root length of winter wheat by 121.1 percent compared with flood irrigation.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivume0 - Treatment
- SDIe1
- Outcome
- root lengthe1
- Direction
- increasede1
- Value
- 121.1 %e1
- Comparator
- FPe1
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Verbatim
e0“Winter wheat is northern China’s biggest agricultural crop”
e1“Compared with FP, SDI significantly increased root length, total projected area (TPA), and total surface area (TSA) by 121.1 %, 26.3 %, and 69.6 %, respectively”
Title
Xin Zhang; Yang Liu; Ziye Zhang; et al. Agricultural Water Management 2024. doi:10.1016/j.agwat.2024.109102
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Intervention effect Subsurface drip irrigation increased total projected area of winter wheat roots by 26.3 percent compared with flood irrigation.
- Intervention effect Subsurface drip irrigation increased total surface area of winter wheat roots by 69.6 percent compared with flood irrigation.
- Intervention effect Drip irrigation increased the weight of flag leaves of winter wheat by 28.8 percent.
- Intervention effect Drip irrigation increased the natural water content of flag leaves of winter wheat by 28.3 percent.
- Intervention effect Drip irrigation increased the relative water content of flag leaves of winter wheat by 92.9 percent.
- Intervention effect Drip irrigation increased LAI of winter wheat by 31.3 percent compared with flood irrigation.
- Intervention effect Partial rootzone irrigation increased SPAD of winter wheat by 18.6 percent compared with flood irrigation.
- Intervention effect Drip irrigation increased the relative abundance of Actinobacteriota in winter wheat fields.
- Intervention effect Drip irrigation increased the relative abundance of Ascomycota in winter wheat fields.
- Association Irrigation type significantly affected root growth, flag leaf RWC, stem biomass and stem N content of winter wheat.
- Association Irrigation type significantly affected the Shannon and ACE indices of bacteria and fungi in winter wheat.
- Association Soil moisture and root length were the main contributors affecting soil microbial communities.
- Association Increased moisture levels suppressed bacterial abundance in winter wheat soil.
- Association Increased moisture levels improved fungal abundance in winter wheat soil.
- Association Root length, total projected area and total surface area were positively correlated with winter wheat yield.
- Observation The lowest winter wheat yield was found under partial rootzone irrigation during 2021-2022.
- Intervention effect SDI improved root growth, the abundance of dominant bacterial communities and wheat yield.
- Intervention effect SDI improved water-N-use efficiency of winter wheat.
- Intervention effect SDI reduced the irrigation water required for winter wheat.