Claim · model-written summary
Irrigation reduced water use efficiency for wheat seed yield.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivume0 - Treatment
- Irrigatione0
- Outcome
- water use efficiency (mean over rotations) for DM production (15.5 in meadow and 17.5 in annual grass-clover winter binary mixture [L water (kg DM)-1]) and wheat SYe0
- Direction
- reducinge0
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Verbatim
e0“Irrigation reduced the impact of weather on crop growing, reducing water use efficiency (mean over rotations) for DM production (15.5 in meadow and 17.5 in annual grass-clover winter binary mixture [L water (kg DM)-1]) and wheat SY.”
Title
Pasquale Martiniello; Giovanni Annicchiarico; Salvatore Claps Italian Journal of Agronomy 2012. doi:10.4081/ija.2012.e41
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Intervention effect Irrigation increased annual binary mixture dry matter by 49.1%.
- Intervention effect Irrigation increased lucerne dry matter by 66.9%.
- Intervention effect Continuous wheat rotation reduced wheat seed yield, production stability and kernel crude protein.
- Intervention effect Continuous wheat rotation reduced topsoil organic matter.
- Observation Wheat after forage crops gained 0.04 t (ha yr)-1 under rainfed conditions.
- Observation Wheat after forage crops gained 0.07 t (ha yr)-1 under irrigation.
- Intervention effect Wheat-forage rotations raised kernel crude protein by 0.8% under rainfed conditions relative to continuous wheat.
- Intervention effect Wheat-forage rotations raised kernel crude protein by 0.5% under irrigation relative to continuous wheat.
- Intervention effect Wheat-forage rotations increased soil organic matter by 5.1 under rainfed conditions relative to continuous wheat.
- Intervention effect Wheat-forage rotations increased soil organic matter by 4.4 under irrigation relative to continuous wheat.
- Intervention effect Under rainfed conditions, annual grass-clover rotation increased topsoil organic matter by 9.3% relative to continuous wheat.
- Intervention effect Under irrigation, annual grass-clover rotation increased topsoil organic matter by 8.5 relative to continuous wheat.
- Intervention effect Under rainfed conditions, lucerne rotation increased topsoil organic matter by 12.5 relative to continuous wheat.
- Intervention effect Under irrigation, lucerne rotation increased topsoil organic matter by 9.5 relative to continuous wheat.
- Intervention effect Irrigation reduced weather impacts on crop growth.
- Intervention effect Irrigation reduced water use efficiency for dry matter production across rotations.
- Observation Water use efficiency for dry matter production in meadow was 15.5 L water (kg DM)-1.
- Observation Water use efficiency for dry matter production in annual grass-clover mixture was 17.5 L water (kg DM)-1.
- Observation Forage crop benefits to topsoil were exhausted after three years of continuous wheat rotation.