Claim · model-written summary
Increasing deficit irrigation reduced apple yield and WUE in arid and semi-arid regions.
- Taxon
- apples
Malus domesticae0 - Treatment
- increasing deficit irrigatione0
- Outcome
- yield reduction and a decline in WUEe0
- Direction
- reductione0
- Setting
- arid and semi-arid regionse0
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Verbatim
e0“in arid and semi-arid regions, increasing deficit irrigation (less water available) resulted in yield reduction and a decline in WUE for apples”
Title
Nawab Ali; Younsuk Dong; Emily Lavely Agricultural Water Management 2024. doi:10.1016/j.agwat.2024.109148
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Intervention effect Across treatments, apple yield changed by −15%.
- Intervention effect Across treatments, apple WUE changed by 12%.
- Intervention effect Across treatments, peach yield changed by −13%.
- Intervention effect Across treatments, peach WUE changed by 10%.
- Intervention effect Across treatments, sweet cherry yield changed by 1%.
- Intervention effect Across treatments, sweet cherry WUE changed by 14%.
- Intervention effect Apple MDI changed yield by −23% and WUE by −15%.
- Intervention effect Apple SDI changed yield by −25%.
- Intervention effect Apple RDI changed yield by −10% and WUE by 50%.
- Intervention effect Apple OI changed WUE by 25%.
- Intervention effect Peach MDI changed yield by −14% and WUE by 23%.
- Intervention effect Peach SDI changed yield by −19% and WUE by 5%.
- Intervention effect Peach RDI changed yield by 18% and WUE by 30%.
- Intervention effect Peach OI or FPI changed yield by −11%.
- Intervention effect Sweet cherry MDI, SDI, RDI and PRDI did not significantly influence yield.
- Intervention effect Sweet cherry WUE improved by 14%, 42%, and 50% under SDI, MDI, and RDI, respectively.
- Intervention effect Sweet cherry OI and FPI changed yield by −10% and WUE by −14%.
- Association Irrigation scheduling effects differed significantly by soil type, greatest in sandy soil.
- Recommendation Authors suggest RDI to optimize yield and WUE under water scarcity.