Claim · model-written summary
Season full irrigation gave annual applied water use efficiency of 8.82 kg DMY ha−1 mm−1.
- Taxon
- Alfalfa
Medicago sativat0 - Treatment
- season fulle6
- Outcome
- annual applied water use efficiency (AAWUE)e6
- Value
- 8.82e6
- Qualifier
- kg DMY ha−1 mm−1e6
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Verbatim
t0“Alfalfa Dry Matter Yield”
e6“Irrigation termination after the fourth harvest with no winter irrigation significantly reduced annual applied water use efficiency (AAWUE) compared to all other treatments (9.08, 8.59, 8.82, and 7.38 kg DMY ha−1 mm−1 for winter full, winter limited, season full, and season limited, respectively; p < 0.0098, SEM = 0.38)”
Title
Leonard M. Lauriault; Murali K. Darapuneni; Koffi Djaman; et al. Agriculture 2025. doi:10.3390/agriculture15020146
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Winter irrigation increased annual dry matter yield compared with season-only irrigation.
- Observation Winter full irrigation gave annual dry matter yield of 10.34 Mg ha−1.
- Observation Winter limited irrigation gave annual dry matter yield of 8.94 Mg ha−1.
- Observation Season full irrigation gave annual dry matter yield of 8.67 Mg ha−1.
- Observation Season limited irrigation gave annual dry matter yield of 6.54 Mg ha−1.
- Intervention effect Irrigation termination after the fourth harvest without winter irrigation reduced annual applied water use efficiency compared with all other treatments.
- Observation Winter full irrigation gave annual applied water use efficiency of 9.08 kg DMY ha−1 mm−1.
- Observation Winter limited irrigation gave annual applied water use efficiency of 8.59 kg DMY ha−1 mm−1.
- Observation Season limited irrigation gave annual applied water use efficiency of 7.38 kg DMY ha−1 mm−1.
- Recommendation Winter irrigation to fill the soil profile, followed by late-summer irrigation termination, is feasible for increasing alfalfa productivity over season-only irrigation.