Claim · model-written summary
Severe deficit irrigation caused substantial yield losses.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- severe deficit irrigation (<40%)e0
- Outcome
- yield lossese0
- Direction
- lossese0
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Verbatim
e0“severe deficit irrigation (<40%) caused substantial yield losses.”
t0“Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)”
Title
Jiayu Ma; Baozhong Yin; Cuijiao Jing; et al. Plants 2025. doi:10.3390/plants14182837
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Optimized irrigation reduced irrigation water input by 35.1%.
- Intervention effect Optimized irrigation reduced nitrogen input by 7.2%.
- Intervention effect Optimized irrigation had no yield penalty.
- Intervention effect Drip irrigation improved water use efficiency by 18.7%.
- Intervention effect Micro-sprinkler irrigation improved water use efficiency by 10.1%.
- Intervention effect Drip irrigation increased nitrogen partial factor productivity by 6.8%.
- Intervention effect Micro-sprinkler irrigation increased nitrogen partial factor productivity by 5.5%.
- Intervention effect Moderate deficit irrigation optimized WUE and PFPN.
- Intervention effect Moderate deficit irrigation maintained stable wheat yields.
- Association Soil texture and bulk density modulated irrigation effectiveness.
- Association Growing-season precipitation correlated negatively with water-saving irrigation benefits.
- Recommendation The authors recommend prioritizing drip and micro-sprinkler irrigation.
- Recommendation The authors advocate integrated irrigation, soil health and site-specific scheduling.