Claim · model-written summary
Authors recommended 10 cm irrigation lines and irrigation at branching and full bloom, with pod-set irrigation optional.
- Taxon
- alfalfa
Medicago sativae0 - Outcome
- installing the irrigation line at a depth of 10 cm and ensuring irrigation during the branching and full bloom stagese0
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Verbatim
e0“installing the irrigation line at a depth of 10 cm and ensuring irrigation during the branching and full bloom stages were essential, while irrigation at the pod set stage was optional, for significantly improving the seed yield of alfalfa”
Title
Optimizing drip irrigation managements to improve alfalfa seed yield in semiarid region
Zhicheng Jia; Chengming Ou; Shoujiang Sun; et al. Agricultural Water Management 2024. doi:10.1016/j.agwat.2024.108830
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Subsurface drip irrigation at 10 cm increased seed yield by 48% relative to surface drip irrigation.
- Observation Subsurface drip irrigation at 10 cm gave the highest irrigation water use efficiency.
- Observation Subsurface drip irrigation at 10 cm caused minimal soil disturbance.
- Intervention effect Irrigation during branch, full bloom, and pod set stages increased seed yield.
- Intervention effect Irrigation during branch, full bloom, and pod set stages increased water use efficiency.
- Association Irrigation timing and quantity were key factors in yield components and seed yield in random forest modeling.
- Association Temperature and precipitation were significant factors at each location.
- Association Irrigation time could affect seed size, chlorophyll, and protein concentration.
- Intervention effect Overall seed quality showed no significant difference among irrigation times.
- Intervention effect Optimal irrigation timing prolonged seed maturation.