Claim · model-written summary
Bubbler irrigation increased length and number of fine effective roots compared with surface irrigation.
- Taxon
- WASHINGTON NAVEL ORANGE TREESt0
- Treatment
- Bubbler irrigation systeme0
- Outcome
- effective roots (< 2 mm) in length and numbere0
- Direction
- moree0
- Comparator
- surface onee0
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Verbatim
e0“Bubbler irrigation system results in more effective roots (< 2 mm) in length and number compared with the surface one.”
t0“WASHINGTON NAVEL ORANGE TREES”
Title
SHABAN M. HUSSIEN; EL-SAUD A. ISMAIL; MOHAMED N. ISMAIL; et al. Egyptian Journal of Agricultural Research 2013. doi:10.21608/ejar.2013.166375
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation Surface irrigation consumed 7480 and 7310 m3/fed. across two seasons.
- Observation Bubbler irrigation consumed 4302 and 3913 m3/fed. across two seasons.
- Association Water consumption increased when surface irrigation maintained high soil moisture.
- Observation Monthly water use was lowest after January and peaked during June through August.
- Intervention effect Bubbler irrigation increased water utilization efficiency up to 59.4%.
- Intervention effect Bubbler irrigation increased shoot length, leaf area, root length, root number and dry weight.
- Intervention effect Bubbler irrigation significantly increased yield per tree, fruit count and fruit weight.
- Intervention effect Bubbler irrigation improved most measured fruit physical and chemical characteristics.
- Intervention effect Leaf N, P and K content did not differ significantly between irrigation methods.
- Recommendation Authors recommend switching orange trees on clay loam soil from surface to bubbler irrigation for water savings and improved yield and quality.