Claim · model-written summary
Grain yield, yield components and aboveground biomass were lower with surface drip irrigation.
- Taxon
- Winter Wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- surface drip irrigatione0
- Outcome
- these biomass parameterse0
- Direction
- lowere0
- Comparator
- subsurface dripe0
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Verbatim
e0“Grain yield, yield components, and above ground biomass were similar in subsurface drip and flood irrigation. However, these biomass parameters were lower with surface drip irrigation”
t0“Winter Wheat”
Title
Water-Saving Potential of Subsurface Drip Irrigation For Winter Wheat
Muhammad Umair; Tabassum Hussain; Hanbing Jiang; et al. Sustainability 2019. doi:10.3390/su11102978
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Subsurface drip reduced evapotranspiration by 26% versus flood irrigation.
- Intervention effect Subsurface drip reduced evapotranspiration by 15% versus surface drip.
- Intervention effect Grain yield was similar under subsurface drip and flood irrigation.
- Intervention effect Yield components were similar under subsurface drip and flood irrigation.
- Intervention effect Aboveground biomass was similar under subsurface drip and flood irrigation.
- Intervention effect Subsurface drip increased crop water productivity by 24.95% versus flood irrigation.
- Intervention effect Subsurface drip increased irrigation water productivity by 19.59% versus flood irrigation.
- Intervention effect Subsurface drip increased net photosynthesis by about 10% versus flood irrigation.
- Intervention effect Subsurface drip increased intrinsic water use efficiency by about 36% versus flood irrigation.
- Intervention effect Subsurface drip lowered transpiration rate by about 22% versus flood irrigation.
- Intervention effect Subsurface drip saved 80 mm of water versus flood irrigation.
- Recommendation The authors recommend subsurface drip irrigation in the North China Plain.